Amber Heard Is Really Sick of the 'Dumb Blonde' Cliché

Screw, Marry, Kill: mascara, lipstick, highlighter.

AH: I’d marry lipstick, screw mascara, and kill highlighter.

What's the last Instagram rabbit hole you went down?

AH: Baby drag queens! These amazing, beautiful, sparkly little human queens are not even preschool age.

What's your beauty mantra?

AH: Be yourself. And find who you are and own it.

You have $20 and free roam of a drugstore. What do you buy?

AH: L’Oréal Paris Rouge. It’s got so much pigment in it. If you have $20, and you have one thing you want to buy, that red lipstick fixes everything. And if you have anything left over, I would go to the snacks.

What women are you most inspired by right now?

AH: Well, that's what's so exciting about being alive right now and being active socially right now. There are so many incredible groundbreakers, rule breakers, and game changers who are shaking things up from the ground up. And at the forefront, I've found the most impactful and inspiring people have been women. It's an incredibly exciting time. It's no longer about celebrities and public speakers or well-known activists: It's the Tarana Burkes, the Emma Gonzalezes; it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Paula Mendozas, Symone Sanders—those women that are on the ground doing things. They are incredible forces of nature. And there are also celebrities doing things, like Andie MacDowell, Shohreh Aghdashloo….

Also, this is very obvious but very true: shout out to my mom. That is who started this whole thing. I’d be nowhere if it weren't for my having learned how to admire and adopt a role model. And my mother is the one who established that role model for me.

If you could change one thing about the perception of beauty in Hollywood what would that be?

AH: That external beauty should be valued behind someone’s confidence, sense of self-worth, talent, or inner beauty.

This interview has been edited and condensed.