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Courtney Love turns 62 today, a number that doesn\u2019t quite square up with how permanently she\u2019s lodged into the collective pop culture. She still reads, somehow, like the one to watch\u2014with a little of her trademark wildcard woven in\u2014not someone who\u2019s already spent decades earning that reputation.<\/p>\n
That staying power started with Hole, the band she founded and fronted, and its raw, riot-grrrl-adjacent breakout, Live Through This, <\/em>released in 1994\u2014just months after the death of her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, a loss that permanently entangled her public identity with one of the most mythologized bands in rock history. It made her one of the most photographed and scrutinized women of the decade, her look picked apart in tabloids as relentlessly as her music was reviewed. She then made a genuine pivot into acting, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her performance opposite Woody Harrelson in 1996\u2019s The People vs. Larry Flynt,<\/em> followed by roles in Man on the Moon<\/em> and 200 Cigarettes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Regardless of the industry, few public figures have had their face and body dissected for this long by so many competing narratives. And Love has responded to all of it with a candor only she could. Her take on beauty isn\u2019t the standard celebrity line of \u201cI don\u2019t do anything\u201d\u2014it has always been more self-aware, and worth revisiting.<\/p>\n Love previously shared that she stayed loyal to the same handful of products for years, according to a 2013 interview with Into The Gloss. <\/em>She credited Uma Thurman with introducing her to Vita-A-Kombi 2 by Karin Herzog ($52), which became a mainstay of her routine, and said she was previously devoted to SK-II, specifically the brand\u2019s Cellumination Cream. <\/p>\n For masking, she pointed to Bioxidea\u2019s Miracle 24 ($104), which she said \u201cdissolves into the skin\u201d after about 20 minutes. At the time, she shared that she liked to layer Kate Somerville\u2019s Quench and a Revive cream on top of the Vita-A-Kombi 2, and has also used products from Colbert MD, Dr. Brandt and Sensai by Kanebo. To remove makeup, she told the outlet, she reached for Eve Lom\u2019s Cleanser ($85). On her habits generally, Love said she\u2019s \u201cpretty loyal\u201d once she finds something that works and doesn\u2019t like to switch products out.<\/p>\n Fragrance-wise, she\u2019s described herself as a \u201cFracas girl,\u201d wearing the classic Robert Piguet scent ($215) since she was young without much deviation, although she\u2019s also amassed nearly every Kilian fragrance and a number of Amouage scents along the way, per the same Into The Gloss <\/em>interview.<\/p>\n Where Love gets more interesting is on the subject of surgery and aging. She\u2019s been open about having had rhinoplasty early in her career\u2014well before Live Through This<\/em> made her a household name\u2014once explaining her reasoning bluntly: \u201cThat schnoz was not taking me anywhere but radio.\u201d <\/p>\n She\u2019s also referenced having had facelifts, a shift that coincided with her transition from rock frontwoman to leading lady, and said she\u2019s been drawn to non-surgical advances like the stem cell facelift for maintaining a more youthful look over time.<\/p>\n But in a widely cited Harper\u2019s Bazaar <\/em>interview, Love pushed back on the idea that more intervention is always better, telling the outlet: \u201cThere are a lot of wonderful actresses who are getting older and look fantastic\u2026to me, aging gracefully is to let it happen and accept.\u201d <\/p>\n She continued, \u201cIn my experience, fighting it always seems to backfire and make people look ridiculous. You see actresses get work done and it makes them unrecognizable.\u201d More recently, she\u2019s said she wants to stay “natural going forward.\u201d <\/p>\n It\u2019s a beauty philosophy that doesn\u2019t resolve into a tidy soundbite\u2014Love has had work done, smartly warns against overdoing it and still makes a case for championing aging. That openness, stated as plainly as she states most things on record, tracks with a career built on refusing to soften her edges, whether she was fronting Hole in the \u201990s or holding her own against Woody Harrelson on screen. It\u2019s also arguably more useful than a straight product list. 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On Fragrance<\/h2>\n
On Surgery and Aging<\/h2>\n