An Olympic Figure Skater's Entire Routine, from Waking Up to Showtime (ft. Mirai Nagasu) | Allure

my name is marina gasps ooh Olympic figure skater and this is how I work it I'm gonna take you through 24 hours of my wellness and beauty routine I don't really like to talk myself up I went for the triple axel which is a very difficult jump but just something about it that feels like you're just going cliff diving and if you hit that forward edge right it's really easy but if you hit it poorly it's the end of the world I was the first American to land it though and big games in 2008 that's a pretty cool thing for me nothing worthwhile in life is easy pain do I like pain no I have to sometimes literally tape myself back together when I'm out on the ice there's no other feeling like it honestly why walk when you can glide and skate and feel the wind in your face it's 6:45 in the morning do you money show I like to kind of sneeze my alarm a million times before I actually get out of bed I think I'm gonna hit the snooze button a couple more times well first thing that I do I turn over and kiss my dog because I actually depressing story didn't make it to the Olympic Games in 2014 while I was very upset I found Lincoln my dog at the Humane Society he gave me reason to go back to the ice rink I love you I always wash my face religiously because ampuls happen and I'm really into this real fresh cleansing sex I'm really not a morning person I drink green tea on a regular basis but now I also wash my face with it as well moisturizing is really important kinda like a foam roller for my face doesn't really go I like the goose here she is all you do is put the celery through the juicer it doesn't taste that great but I think my body feels the effects it's already looking cleaner right I like to get a good breakfast I absolutely believe in carbs carbs really helped fuel programs I like to stretch for 45 minutes flexibility is something that you consistently have to work on I have to do things like pull my leg over my head and I like to foam roll I like to stretch this one I can put on the ground and just get into my adductor the tightest part of my body I don't really like to wear makeup outside of the ice rink outside of any competition actually I usually show up to the rink in my sweatpants getting taken up to get ready for Miss eating show but nutrition is really important so I'm enjoying this nice we're here in Marina gotta sign these later it me and this is where we get ourselves together horn ah these are costumes is Alyssa this is our skates this is it I'll do a 45-minute warmup I'll do a light jog and then I'll roll out and we also have a physical therapist tour as well next we're PT this is Katia and she's gonna work on my hip because I have the worst abductors which is right here so all I have to do is lie back and Katia is magical and I get 45 minutes on the ice who are going to do rehearsals them yeah I got ice skates on so we're a lot taller I like to do an hour for my my hair and makeup we learn on a very young age to do our own hair and makeup because no one else is there to do it for you I get really excited about the jumps the Falls the sweat the athletic sign the beauty part I've fallen in love with two because it's part of my sport but it's something that I really had to learn for me personally I like doing my hair and makeup in the bathroom and I turn on a pump up movie I'm really into Pirates of the Caribbean number three pirates are against the British and the Pirates are a scraggly group of thieves like you know what this is what we stand for and we're gonna fight even if it means we're gonna lose that's my pumpup Jam because I feel like I'm going out there and competing against the rest of the field it's kind of scary so can I say yes I'm fighting to the death even if I lose whatever happens happens and that's when I'm putting my war paint on if I could I would put the football stripes on my face but that doesn't go with my sport so I put the mascara on makeup is a very messy process for me I will admit that before I came here I washed all my brushes because I don't want everyone to think I'm nasty so first I take my sponge I take my priming spray then I go I don't know how much to actually put on but I think less is better but I'm always been more is better type of person - yes this is a Tarte rainforest of the sea it's a water foundation I find that I sweat a lot here and so it drips down so I want to cover up in my chin especially I go for a natural but not natural look if that makes sense so I want to look flawlessly natural naturally flawless both they go over my eyebrows because I like to draw them in anyways and you kind of want to get the underside of your neck as well because you don't want to have too much contrast this is a nasty fact we don't really wash our dresses because each crystal is hand glued on to the dress and if you were to throw it into the laundry machine they would all fall off the crystals really help put you in the center of focus I might hand wash but that's only usually in our bed oh yeah I'll just do like a nice deodorizing spray and forget about it I don't like to think about it next is this piece powder it's actually from Japan it's just a face powder that I I really like if you put water on this it won't soak in it'll just kind of glisten it is great for sweating it also smells really good she's been through the wringer a little bit I like to go a little bit lighter with the pencil because I don't want to overwhelm everyone with my eyebrows if I make any mistakes I just use my fingers as an eraser and then to fill in the rest of it I cheat my way through it with this tinted brow gel I don't like to go black with my eyebrows even though my hair color is black I think it draws too much attention to my brows and less to my eyes I definitely use my eyes the most swipe right then swipe left with this one just like dating so next is eyeshadow and this is my color pop sweet-talk palette I like to think that it helped accentuate my eye but honestly I just like glitter I take a little bit of a lighter color and since it's a lighter color I like to go up a little bit higher right into that crease my mama is not into makeup at all so when I first started skating she only had a blue eyeshadow palette and mascara so that's all I had and that's what I use then you two became a thing so I watched some YouTube videos and I haven't learned how to do fake eyelashes yet but it's on my list of to do things I take this whiter color I just use my finger it's just that here she is kind of look so there's that I want to like give myself a little fake smokey eye because I can't commit to a full smoky eye I've been really into this eggplant kind of color right here and then I'm ready for my eyeliner I'm really into this one day tattoo real lasting eyeliner by Kay palette there are just some things that Asian brands they consider their Asian audience and when I smile I get that almond piece right here so I have to be really careful of that onto mascara now I was told by the Sephora lady that this is a great curler for the almond eyes just the golden edition I like this this is a Maybelline mascara it actually is great for performances too because it doesn't run down your face so I would totally recommend it unfortunately I'm low on that so here I am using a deja boo' fiber wig which I bought in Japan and I pair it with this lash lengthening fiber this is gonna be your biggest hit secret you want to look down and give it a little swish and flick flick it up because you want it to go on but you don't want it to be clumpy and then your fibers they're gonna give you the fake look I think it's waterproof when I sweat it doesn't really run which is great but do you see the difference it's like a whole new person the makeup really helps me feel like I'm getting into character though because a lot of times I'm portraying a character who I have nothing in common with I love this dress it helps me feel really beautiful and I think that I mean you feel beautiful do you get into character a lot more easily notice it's very tight because when we were doing the aerodynamic jumps it helps to be as aerodynamic as possible this is a really really embarrassing story my first tour that I did I was it was in 2010 uh my mom never really gave me the birds in the bees speech I learned very quickly that granny panties like having leotards and then being able to see the underwear line is not a good look so some of the girls on tour actually got me some thongs and that's how I was introduced to thong so welcome get your thongs girls next up is my Glo kit I like this color I stuck in my cheeks because I want that cut look it's just a nice little highlight I guess and I take it up to my ears because then it follows that flow highlight is something that I really really like this highlight palette is my favorite bat moon shadow it's really nice for performing it just so happy with how my high today's obviously I really like this one I like it when I'm skating because it's just extra boom then if you can see it it's like I'm a unicorn I don't want to distract from my skating hey armpits would discharge from my skating and it would bring the attention more to my armpits than my skating and I don't really want my armpits to be talked about I'd rather they talk about my jump so I like to shave them clean I don't do blush because I don't need it when I'm sweating and I'm getting hot the apples of my cheeks just naturally do their thing as far as lipsticks go Fanty makes a great one is great because you know it's not gonna go on your teeth I put this on for competition when I really want something red but the are right now when I'm performing I really like this color though it's called Spanx she's subtle so she's not so in-your-face from thin tea so go Rihanna I take my little lip brush because I like to paint my lips like a Geisha get that in there nice and I don't like lip gloss when I skate at all because it's just sticky and once your hair gets stuck in it it just stays there this is it for makeup though Oh JK now I'm good I'm really really basic with my hair I have a lot of hair when I compete especially I don't like it moving around and I like the slicked back look so I'll just put this up I don't even train with the ponytail because I like having long hair I find that it's long enough to hit me in the eye it just really hurts also one rubber band doesn't feel like it holds these are actually extra strength rubber bands so I'll do two goes I use to hairsprays I'll do a little bit of both kind of like the helmet my hair in that's also another type of like protection I guess the makeup is warrior and then I have my helmet hair as well like I said this it's not not good and then I'm really basic with my buns I get these Jacko net here now I go to Sally's on so Sally is also so these strong bobby pins that are great for my Asian hair this happens this happens okay it just happens sometimes you just have to work with what you have and so I have three of them so I'll twist it up and that will help get into that bun right here try as best to the best of your ability not to have that uncomfortable pin because you want to give yourself the best chance possible to give out the best performance and sometimes little things like a nasty bobby pin might just set you off this is your normal dog squeaker and I put them right in my leggings when you can hear your feet just get together tighter is obviously better because you can rotate a lot faster we fall to learn it's kind of like doing math you kind of just keep working towards that equation until you figure it out for us we have to learn to fall and it's through figuring out what doesn't work that we learn our jumps I love getting glammed up for the Oscars but it was a totally different experience because for skating everything has to be really tight I had a bun but it was the loosest bun ever and it was beautiful I had the beautiful whispies that were just right but I skate like that probably not this is my completed figure skating book this is the definition of skater look it's how I feel beautiful it's kind of just the casing underneath it all my muscles some of them are like ooh you fell really hard on your tailbone the other day duct tape is mankind's greatest invention so right here is where skates break I'm either going to go into new skates and have to deal with blisters or I'm gonna reinforce my old skates so I take my duct tape and I just wrap it around and around and around and basically create a shield for my skates my feet are nasty so I don't really like to show them off in the public I like to take my spank Oh second skin and they're literally just disposable gel pads so you can see here that I had a blister for a while I was putting this on to protect it there's so much going on your adrenaline is high your nerves are high I'm usually sweating because I'm nervous some days I feel really good like I'm a rock star and I'm ready to throw it down and other times I'm a little bit scared and you just can't ever account for how you're gonna feel so the things you can account for the things that you do every day in practice that you want to look for those things to rely upon [Music] let's take a sneak peak doing a quick little warmup remember how he said I couldn't do fakies the girls taught me how to put them on today so got my skates on I've got to get the blood flowing I like to do like I get my feet going but I got to go show this beginning the show is two and a half hours we do two solo performances each I'm going into my first solo number this is called view my daughter and it's about insecurities and how especially for figure skaters we're told we need to be perfect and look perfect but we don't always feel that way [Music] this is my first time a little out of breath my favorite number 10 90s so I'm gonna go get ready for that getting my space buns on we have this one 90s number where I am a spice girl then the boys are Backstreet Boys oh my god here we are space buns we're ready for the 90s I'm really tone-deaf and I'm kind of blanking but Donna Donna the one days I hear I sing it so loud and I get for Ozzy Osbourne glasses when I'm in that performance and I literally can't see anyone so I'm living my best life when I'm singing my tone-deaf version of the Backstreet Boys we are have time for smelly breath so basket of myths boys water I don't like antiperspirant because I absolutely believe that your body's natural response to cool itself down is to sweat so I don't really smell that much but I do love bearglove Old Spice bear glove is men's deodorant I carry my stress in my shoulders by week three of the Olympic Games I was really stressed out I use KT Tape to just keep my shoulders in place because as I was getting more and more nervous I was starting to shrink into myself I also use this on my abductor remember when people were like is that a tattoo they only had this bright colored tape so I was like yeah I'm on Team USA I'll use it that just keeps my adductor in place another number the Sun I'm a business woman I'm a little tired just a day in lovest I got this the afternoon the business of them I do a very fast cooking because I'm the first number after it this is in the finale here we are in our matching but different color finale ready [Music] the show ends and by that point I'm exhausted but it's worth it we're gonna put on cute clothes I mean and greet after the show we have meet and greets so I usually sit in my grime unless I have my towel wet if you don't want to shower in a nasty arena where you don't know what bacteria is floating around uni shower sheets as such like this as soon as that last photo is over as it's nice it feels like I'm myself again like I love I love glamor and I I like this but it's nice to have the confidence to go out into public without any makeup on when my head hits the pillow after being a professional figure skater I'm out lights out gone by you [Music]

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Length: 18min 43sec (1123 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 29 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ttr88]

So fun to watch and the dog's squeak toy was news to me!

[u/Krissypantz]

I love her! So excited when she landed the triple axel!!! I saw her sk8 in person at Nationals that year!

[u/harpokratest]

She's so funny!

[u/yeetmcskeetonmyfeet]

She seems so down to earth, she one of my favs 😁