Yewande Biala Spills All The Love Island Beauty Secrets (And She Left Behind Her Foundation For Amber)

Imagine: you’ve got the call - you’re going on Love Island. You now have to pack, preparing to spend - potentially - eight weeks in Majorca, cracking on and drinking precisely two alcoholic drinks a night, while batting your eyelashes over terrible cheese sandwiches.You’ve decided on your cutest minidresses, your best bikinis and which sandals to show off your pedicure. So far, so good.

But, wait a minute, what on earth are you going to stash in your make-up bag, when close-ups of your face, overjoyed or pied, are being streamed across the country?

Fear not. We asked our favourite Yewande Biala all of our of burning Love Island beauty questions, like, do the girls share make-up? And how long do you even get to apply your false eyelashes in the evening?

‘We bring in our own kit because we don’t know what stuff is going to be in there. When we were in there, there was a lot of the Love Island beauty brand called LoveBurst, so we did use a lot of that, there was a lot of lipsticks and lipglosses that are handy there.

‘I couldn’t live without my eyebrow pencil. Could you imagine? I actually use Essence, I know the most popular would be like MAC - a few of the girls in there used MAC. I couldn’t live without my eyebrow pencil, foundation and lipgloss. I just use a Superdrug one, any old clear lipgloss.

‘The most popular foundation in the villa was NARS, at least three or four of us used NARS when I was there. I used it too.

‘I was smart enough to bring foundation two shades darker than me, because I knew I’d get so dark. And Amber didn’t bring foundation darker than her - and now she’s using my foundation, I had to leave it in there for her.

‘You wouldn’t really have enough time to do your make-up in the daytime, when you want a tinted moisturiser look, you just squeeze a bit of foundation and moisturizer and just rub it on your skin to have that no make-up look.

‘In the mornings, it doesn’t take long to get dressed because we’re just in bikinis. We didn’t have full glam, because it was like 35 degrees in the morning. Most of us don’t wear make-up in the morning.

‘But, in the evening, we get two and a half hours to get dressed. But it’s not two-and-a-half hours per person, it’s like two-and-a-half hours for everyone in the villa. So if you were at the end of the shower queue, you’d have like half an hour to get dressed.

‘I always had to be top three because it just takes me so long to get ready! And I don’t even know what I’d be doing, because I’d just shower and suddenly be lying around for like half an hour. I’d always have to be top four, at least.'

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