Stephanie Suganami aka Steph Shep Talks Her Beauty Journey on ‘Skin Talk With Laura Love’

Welcome to Skin Talk With Laura Love, our video sequence by which stars of favor, movie, tv, and past percentage their attractiveness secrets and techniques with the authorized style and esthetician.

The ultimate episode of our first season of Skin Talk With Laura Love options Stephanie Suganami perfect referred to as Steph Shep, who first turned into a family title as Kim Kardashian’s assistant however has since moved directly to appearing stardom having maximum just lately been featured in 2025’s Opus with Ayo Edebiri.

When it involves her attractiveness targets, the Ohio local—who moved to Los Angeles 15 years in the past to pursue a occupation in dancing (her function used to be to be a Pussycat Doll)—is taking a look to “defy gravity at all times. Just fighting gravity.” She’s keen on the double cleanse, the usage of micellar water to take off make-up and extra dirt earlier than the usage of iS Clinical’s Cleansing Complex and the emblem’s Warming Honey Cleanser. It’s all a part of what she jokes is her “50-step beauty routine. I don’t pretend to be low-maintenance.”

Like many millennials, the actor’s greatest attractiveness be apologetic about is over-tweezing her eyebrows, till they had been “nonexistent.” (They’re again now, however “it was a long road to get here,” Suganami says.) She additionally displays on her enjoy the usage of filler, pronouncing she’ll be “the first one” to name out a female friend who’s doing an excessive amount of with the injectables. These days, she sticks with skin care, steadily giving her husband, the manufacturer Larry Jackson, facials and lending him her favourite merchandise.

Suganami additionally talks converting her title, recalling now not short of to be related together with her Japanese heritage as a kid. “Growing up in Ohio, being the only Asian kid, it definitely formed everything about me,” she says. “It wasn’t something I was really proud of.” She discusses an enjoy from her youth, when she’d seek advice from mall attractiveness counters for makeovers together with her buddies. The blue-eyed, blonde women in her workforce wound up taking a look fabulous, whilst Suganami felt as regardless that she’d “done really bad drag.” However, “rather than it deterring me from beauty and makeup, it was the catalyst for me to learn how to do my own makeup for my face.”

Of direction, Kardashian will get introduced up. “I’m forever Kim Kardashian’s assistant,” Suganami says good-naturedly. “But I’m fine with it. It makes me work a little bit harder to be taken seriously in a different way.”

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