Christina Aguilera is radiant regardless of the circumstances. She has simply returned dwelling to Los Angeles from Phoenix, Arizona, the place she performed the NFL Commissioner’s Tremendous Bowl Social gathering and can quickly depart for Chile, the place she’ll play the Viña del Mar Worldwide Music Pageant. However presently, she is trapped in a Zoom room all through a press junket. 

Aguilera is 42 years previous, and for 23 of these years, she has been an internationally well-known pop star. Extra exactly, she is likely one of the few entertainers in human historical past for whom the time period “pop star” is really applicable. Extra impressively, she is likely one of the few people in human historical past who is ready to make a Zoom room look actually glamorous. A wall of white cupboards means that she is beaming in from the dressing wing of her Beverly Hills manse, and a crouched assistant, periodically shifting by means of the body, signifies that there’s work being finished. There’s at all times work being finished once you’re Christina Aguilera. A middle half divides her platinum hair, all liquid and incandescent, all daylight illuminating waterfalls of milk. 

In celebration of her spokesmanship with Merz Aesthetics and Xeomin, a model of incobotulinumtoxinA injection therapy for frown traces between the eyebrows, Aguilera was in a position to grant Attract a 19-minute dialog on matters pertaining to magnificence, video video games, and injectables. “I believe all of us can depend on a bit assist,” she says, her cheeks effervescent up right into a smile. “Why not?”

Attract: Are you able to describe for our viewers what your make-up appears like proper now?

Christina Aguilera: We’re giving a bit at-home, type of faux-natural-but-not-really-natural-maybe. We have some shadow, some lashes. My lashes had been wanting busted at present, so we needed to give a bit zhuzh there. It is a good chill-glam look.

Attract: It appears nice. We’re talking on the event of your partnership with Xeomin and Merz Aesthetics. What’s your basic angle towards beauty injectables?

Christina: I believe it is nice to share and to be sincere and open about what you are doing — in your consolation zone, after all. I’ve at all times been a fairly open guide about embracing my physique, my appears, and issues like that.

However I am a fairly reserved individual in relation to plenty of issues. I believe to every their very own, and I believe we [should] all do what’s proper for us, so I do not consider in judgment the place that is involved in anyway. However for me, I like to ensure what I put in my physique is the most secure it may be. I stay a giant life. [Editor’s note: While all injectable neurotoxins — Xeomin, Botox, Dysport, Jeuveau, and Daxxify — are purified versions of botulinum toxin type A, “Xeomin is sometimes considered the ‘naked toxin’ because it doesn’t contain the binding proteins that other brands do,” Kavita Mariwalla, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in West Islip, New York, has told Allure. “Those proteins aren’t harmful but theoretically they could be involved in cases of so-called ‘Botox resistance.'”]