Alexandra French Returns: Inside Her Makeup Bag, Euphoria Makeup, and Her Must-Follow Beauty Tips

Alexandra French returns to Gloss Angeles with a dazzling reveal: her face is now a reference photo for a major character's look in Euphoria Season 3—a moment she calls emotional and surreal. As a makeup artist whose career was transformed by her Emmy-winning work on the show, she opens up about the bittersweet reality of not returning for the full season due to scheduling conflicts, despite her deep emotional connection to the project. She shares her signature multi-product lip technique, which creates a natural-looking 'halo' illusion by layering different liners and shades, and breaks down her go-to products, including a cult-favorite Urban Decay mascara that doesn’t clump and a Refi hydrophilic powder that blurs like liquid. Her journey from camera-shy artist to TikTok educator is framed as a transformative act of teaching, where she’s learned as much from her audience as she’s taught them. She also reveals her upcoming project, a self-published, interactive makeup zine titled *French Kissed*, designed to let fans mix and match her eye and lip looks like a mood board—because, as she says, ‘if I’m going to be on everyone’s mood board, might as well make my own.’ The episode is a masterclass in intentionality: French’s philosophy centers on authenticity, self-education, and the power of small, precise details.