Bambi Northwood Blyth
“I do a full body moisturise daily, usually with La Mer body cream or Clarins body lotion. Sometimes if I’m not heading straight out, I like using coconut oil, it’s the best !”
Claire Thomson, make up artist, does my brows ! I use an awesome pencil she just gave me, Ardell brow grooming pencil, its better than the gel because it keeps them flat and doesn’t separate the hairs.
“In the morning, I wash my face with a cold water face wash, and avoid products because I’ll have clean skin. In the shower I use the La Mer Cleansing Foam and the La Mer Body Refiner”.
“I wash my hair every day, although I’ve heard thats not good. Ummmm I don’t do much to it, so I guess thats how it stays healthy! I use the Aesop Shine oil, the Evo Fantastico cream is great for the ends.
On her personal style:
“Lil bit dressy lil bit messy, ever changing”
“Soleil Tan de Chanel, bronzing make up base is good for contour and also light eye shadow”
I love using the La Mer toner, then I moisturize with the La Mer moisturising lotion, or Dior Hydralife which has some SPF in it”
“La mer is such a fresh clean feeling product. From washing my face and body, to moisturizing, its the best”.
“Kiehl’s Facial Fuel eye de puffer and Eye Brightening Concentrate, bright eyes are key!”
“When I’m blowdrying I use the Evo Mister Fantastic spray to get some good texture”
“NARS illuminator is the perfect highlighter, i use it down my nose, corner of eyes and most importantly in the middle upper lip !”
“Benefit lip tint is such a natural red, it stains so doesn’t move and fades really naturally. Good for cheeks as well and has no shine”.
On her beauty team:
“I always get my hair done by Ash Croker at Valonz. And I get facials from Jocelyn Petroni or this lady called Nina is LA who is AMAZING!”
On the make-up products she can’t live without:
“MAC Face and Body is perfect coverage for my face, and YSL touché éclat also ROSE WATER MIST ! I like to keep it in the fridge so its super refreshing !”
“I like to use my DIY coffee coconut scrub and get the skin glowing ! Dry brush before showering, great for blood flow and keeping skin fresh. Then the coffee scrub with coconut oil and salt is such a good combo. Coffee stimulates the blood flow, salt is good for exfoliating, coconut oil hydrates and moisturizes”.
On her product obsessions:
“A great face moisturizer, the Rosebud Salve or Paw Paw, Nars Copacobana highlighter, Evo Dry Shampoo, Rose water mist is amazing. The Mismo ACE Serum is great for the skin, keeping it hydrated and protected, especially after some days in the sun”.
“At the end of the day, i take everything off with Crealine, it’s great to get everything off. The Chanel Eye make up remover is great too”.
“I wash my hair every day, and follow with blow drying, some Aesop oil for the ends, dry shampoo and Evo Haze powder for texture”.
On her Sunday morning:
“Ummmmm depends what I did on a Saturday night! But Sundays is not scheduled, ever changing, its hard to have a routine! It definitely does not involve a brunch”
“NARS Copacabana is the best. End of nose, middle upper lip, super natural but makes a big difference”
On her favourite designers:
Dan Single, La Perla, Alexander Wang, Isabel Marant.
On Australia VS NYC:
Always Australia. My family, lover, friends, beaches, sunshine, nature and adventures !
On her exercise routine:
“I work out with a trainer every second day, and then might follow that with 30 mins of cardio. On the days in between I like to swim, do yoga or anything! You gotta think outside the box, especially in weird hotels or cities”.
“Evo Haze is amazing for volume, especially just at the front and in the part, i use it most days if i have my hair down”
“Clarins Hydra Quench cream is great for flying, and their Rose Clay mud mask is great”.
“When i get extensions out or after a big job of hair being teased and heated, Evo Fabulouso is a great hair mask, its just like moisturizer for the hair”
“The Mismo ACE Serum is great for the skin, keeping it hydrated and protected, especially after some days in the sun”.
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On her beauty go-to when she’s tired/hung over:
“Cold drip coffee and a SAUNA sweat it all out or eye de puffer from Kiehl’s“.
On what she loves about living in NYC:
“Seeing the world from another perspective, going faster, working harder, being colder !
On her 2 minute beauty tip:
“Hitting my cheeks a lil bit to get some colour, sometimes its a lil bit of fake tan to give a glow, or Smiths Rosebud Salve is great on cheeks, lips and eyelids to give a fresh dewy face !”
“I give my hair a big brush out with the tangle teezer as it gets into dreadlocks so quickly and then I put it in a bun !”
On her words to live by:
“Walk around like a hip bitch everywhere you go”
Let’s can the small talk and get straight to the ‘brows. Strategically whisked upward, Bambi Northwood Blyth’s brows give off an expression of faux-innocent surprise – like a guilty school girl playing the principal like a violin: “A cherry bomb? In the girls toilet block? I have no idea what you’re talking about, sir.”
It’s those signature brows and natural beach babe looks, coupled with an infectious sense of fun that have enamoured Bambi Northwood-Blyth to runway casting gurus for Balenciaga and CHANEL, fashion editors for the likes of Elle and V Magazine, and her husband of just over a year, Dan Single.
Now having relocated from Sydney to New York, home is still where Bambi’s heart is (“always Australia”, she insists) but she can easily check off plenty to love about New York City living: “Seeing the world from another perspective, going faster, working harder, being colder!”
The transition from Bondi to Big Apple hasn’t impacted her style at all. What she wears, how she wears it, and the messy hair still very much speak to her laid-back beach-kid quality – “lil’ bit dressy, lil’ bit messy” is her self-assessment of personal style. It might be a surprise, then, that her health and beauty routines are fairly rigorous.
“At the end of the day, I take [all my makeup] off. “Bioderma Crealine is great to get everything off. The Chanel Eye makeup remover is great too.” Bambi says – assuming she’s wearing makeup at all. “It can range from nothing to something, it changes depending on what day it is.”
When it comes to beauty, she’s not adverse to home-spun treatments either.
“I like to use my DIY coffee coconut scrub and get the skin glowing! Dry brush before showering, great for blood flow and keeping skin fresh. Then the coffee scrub with coconut oil and salt is such a good combo. Coffee stimulates the blood flow, salt is good for exfoliating, coconut oil hydrates and moisturises.”
And coincidentally, all three are good for eating!
Bambi isn’t one of those shrugging girls who blame fast metabolisms and genetics for looking amazing. Her exercise regimen is just as rigorous as her beauty routine.
She works out every single day – a necessary complement to her (statistically unsupported) recommendation that “a glass of Rosé a day keeps the doctor away.”
We should probably mention here that she and husband Dan created a signature rosé “Pour les Amour” in collaboration with South Australian winery Bird in Hand – so she’s a wine entrepreneur too.
Cheeky, fun and accomplished – maybe that’s the winning formula for “walking around like a hip bitch everywhere you go”? Pass the rosé…
photographed by Soraya Zaman
words by Susannah Tucker
