Olivia Munn isn’t afraid of bold looks on the red carpet. Indeed, there’s isn’t a bright lip she won’t try, especially with the encouragement of her makeup artist and close pal Patrick Ta.
“He’s so brilliant, and we’re so in sync when it comes to that stuff,” the 35-year-old X:Men Apocalypse star tells PeopleStyle in an interview featured in our new issue, on newsstands Friday.
But, the real-talking actress admits even she isn’t immune to regrettable looks.
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Her biggest mishap recently happened at a Walk of Fame event in Miami during her Ride Along 2 press tour in January when Ta — who works on the KarJenner Krew, Shay Mitchell and more stars — accidentally over-contoured her face (see above).
“After the event, I saw the pictures and I was like, ‘Why do I look like that?'” she says. “I know I was looking into the light and squinting, but still, even my sister told me I looked so different in the pictures, and I was like, ‘You’re right!'”
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So, she got to the bottom of it: “I asked [Ta] why I look like a cat where my eyes are going up so much,” she says. “It’s so funny because he said he mixed the concealer to go up at an angle. I told him I didn’t want that. He works with so many other actors, and they always want their faces to be lifted up and to have angling, highlighting, shading so their eyes and cheekbones go up. I’m Asian, so I already have those eyes and cheekbones, so he basically doubled up on that. So I was like, ‘Can you not?!'”
Because the two are so close, he understood where she was coming from, she says with a laugh. “He’s been really good about figuring things out together, but he’s had to learn with me that some things that other people love and really want to look like are just not my thing,” she adds. “He’s been really cool about backing off with that.”
That’s why they’ve kept at it — minus the overdose of contouring. “I’ve seen how much makeup can affect me in a negative way and how it can destroy my face, where I don’t look like myself,” she says. “But he knows how to make me feel my best.”
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Other things that make her feel amazing? Miss Dior’s Blooming Bouquet fragrance and Proactiv+ Mark Correcting Pads, she says, as well as Eos classic lip balms. “I love the Eos eggshaped lip balms,” she says. “I always carry, like, five at a time wherever I go! They’re so soft and creamy.”
For more on our exclusive interview with the star, including her favorite beauty products, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE on newsstands everywhere Friday.
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–Sharon Clott Kanter
