Andie MacDowell Says This $11 Makeup Product Is "Just as Good If Not Better" Than Expensive Options

When I ask Andie MacDowell to share her favorite feature to enhance, I’m of course expecting us to gush over her legendary mane. The actress and model has long been known for her gorgeous curls, after all, arguably even more so since she fully embraced going gray back in 2020. She’s inspired crowds of women to cancel their coloring appointments and let their own silver strands grow in with glory.

We did eventually chat about the perfect lavender-hued conditioner to brighten up her strands (more on that later!), but the bulk of our conversation actually centered on a much smaller area of real estate—her brows. “I love to do my eyebrows. Even if I go to the grocery store, I would do my eyebrows. I don’t care about anything else,” she tells me. “It changes how you look completely. … You can look put together just by doing your eyebrows.”

As someone who succumbed to the pencil-thin arches of the ’90s (“Don’t pluck your eyebrows. I told my girls not to,” she fiercely warns), MacDowell has her brow-thickening routine down to a T. “As you age, you lose them. So I really like to fill them in. Mine can get a bit unruly—they have a kink in them—so I have to make sure that they stay in place,” she explains. That said, she doesn’t recommend anything fancy. A drugstore pencil does just the trick, whether she’s off to the market or striding down a runway at the Place de l’Opéra during Paris Fashion Week (which she did, as a matter of fact, soon after our video call).

“It’s a beautiful moment to finally be out there. It’s a short-lived moment, so [I’m] enjoying every second of it,” she says of the star-studded L’Oréal Paris Le Défilé show. She certainly exuded this bright, dazzling energy on the runway—and her brows looked impeccable, if I do say so myself. Ahead, find the exact products MacDowell used for a stellar brow game, plus her other nonnegotiable drugstore beauty staples.