Last weekend Lori Harvey took the fashion world by storm when photos surfaced of her wearing a custom glittering gold Prada gown to an intimate premiere party at boyfriend Michael B. Jordan’s home. As it turns out, an aureate moment is par for the course for the 24-year-old, who swears by a high-shine above-the-neck equation. “I love to be dewy and glowy and radiant,” Harvey says in the latest installment of Vogue’s Beauty Secrets.

Naturally, the first step to a lit-from-within façade begins not with a highlighter or sparkling shadow, but rather a carefully considered complexion-saving routine. “Skin care is definitely one of the highest forms of self-care,” muses Harvey, who is currently putting the finishing touches on her own forthcoming cosmetic line, which includes a low-pH cleanser and what she describes as “the perfect” eye cream. “I tested all my products, of course, on myself, but I also tested them on my boyfriend,” she notes. In fact, “I’ve pretty much gotten all of the men in my life on a skin-care regimen, my dad included…so if you’re wondering why his skin looks so good lately,” she says, breaking into a smile, “it’s because of me.”

To make her foundation (two shades of Armani’s Luminous Silk mixed together with a Q-tip) go on “supersmooth and flawless,” Harvey preps her base with a hydrating SPF-infused primer and a sweeping of her tried-and-true Laura Mercier Translucent Powder—a pro tip picked up from her best friend who happens to be a makeup artist. “When she’d see me do my makeup, she’d be like, ‘That’s wrong!’” Harvey says, adding that her earliest tutorials were courtesy of her mother, who’d often have her makeup professionally done. “I would literally sit and stare at her and the makeup artist until I learned to do it myself,” she recalls as she moves onto her brows, which she perfects with a six-piece kit from Kelley Baker (who also tends to the Kardashians’ arches), followed by not one but two bronzers.

“I love to look at old ’90s glam for inspiration when I’m doing my makeup. I just feel like that was such a timeless era…and everything was very effortless,” she says, picking up a Patrick Ta lip liner, which she tops off with a coat of glimmering gloss from Pat McGrath. “She taught me so much…there’s a lack of Black women in the beauty space and in the skin-care space, so she definitely inspired me to create my own brand,” Harvey explains before drawing attention to her now “flawless” pout. Last but not least? Anastasia Beverly Hills coconut- and vanilla-scented Dewy Set Setting Spray (dabbed across her cheekbones and eyelids with a Beauty Blender) for an extra glow. “It’s my little secret.”

Originally posted from “VOGUE” by Zoe Ruffner