Courtney Love’s Surprisingly Good Beauty Advice

Photo: Harper’s Bazaar 

Courtney Love proved to be a beauty guru with some words of wisdom on aging with grace.

The rocker, who is known more for her antics than her music, has turned over a new leaf in recent years, and is using her “fresh start” to share what she has learned when it comes to beauty and working with the biggest fashion designers.

“The best beauty advice I ever got was from Polly Bergen when I was 11 years old,” Love told Harper’s Bazaar.  “I was watching her on TV at my stepfather’s house, and she said something like, “I wish someone had told me when I was younger to start taking care of my skin.” So even though I was in the fifth grade, I did what she said. My stepfather was married to a Ford model at the time, and she would let me use some of her products but never her Erno Laszlo, so I started sneaking the Erno Laszlo soap. I got into huge trouble for it.”

Now, the 51-year-old swears by SK-II products and ReVive moisturizer. She also credits the Zone diet, Pilates, yoga and “a lot of chanting” for her physical and spiritual health.

However, when it comes to aging gracefully, Love looks to one Hollywood icon for inspiration.

“I’ve really turned a corner in the past three or four years. It began when I decided to get back into acting, and to do that you need to look as good as you can—even if you’re aging. There are a lot of wonderful actresses who are getting older and look fantastic. I want to be in that club. To me, aging gracefully is to let it happen and accept it. In my experience, fighting it always seems to backfire and make people look ridiculous. You see actresses get work done and it makes them unrecognizable. I look at these actresses like Diane Keaton, who has never had anything done, and I think that’s cool. It’s sexy, really.”

And despite her bad girl reputation, Love revealed she is slowly getting some, well, love from famous designers.

“There was a time in 2006 when no designers I liked would dress me, so I started making my own clothes,” Love said. “It took me a long time to pay attention to fashion, but now I’m at a pretty conservative point in how I dress. I’m into ladylike clothes, like Victoria Beckham’s—her dresses are flawless on me. And I love Michael Kors. He was the first designer who was really nice to me, the first one to give me free stuff. I also reconnected with Zac Posen recently… It’s been a joy to have him in my life again.”

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