Fran Drescher Joins Laura Gellar as Beauty Ambassador

What is one beauty trend you’re obsessed with right now?

Great brows. I love Laura Geller’s Heavenly Brows. It’s so good. It’s got a great wand and a very nice tip. It just works incredibly well.

Laura Geller Heavenly Brows Eyebrow Definer Pencil

What is the best beauty advice your mom ever gave you?

Don’t apologize for who you are. If you’re like a shrinking violet and you’re apologizing or trying to hide yourself because you don’t feel like you’re someone’s idea of perfection, then that’s the message you’re going to put out to the world. And when you put out confidence and self-love, that’s the important message. That’s what my mom taught me. 

Fill in the blank. I love my hair…

I love when my hair when it’s not frizzy. The best thing for me to do is wash it at night, put a little bit of root lift in, maybe a little smoother on the ends, and then pile it all on the pillow and let it dry that way. And when I wake up, it’s kind of wavy-curly and it has some lift. And then when I’m working with a hairdresser, I always say blow it out so it’s smooth and bouncy, and when I use hair spray, I spray it under each piece of hair instead of at the top.

Let’s play Screw, Marry or Kill with mascara, lipstick, and highlighter.

I would marry all three! Those are staples! I like a mascara that has a primer attached to it. I get drugstore mascara, but never waterproof or 24-hour, because that’s just too much. When I use a highlighter, I actually use a lip gloss from Laura Geller since it contains light-reflecting pearls. I dot and then use a sponge to blend. And I love their lipsticks as well because they’re two-sided. The lip stain is great too. I don’t need to look like I’m wearing lipstick, but I just want to see that I have good color to them. 

Laura Geller Color Luster Lip Gloss Hi-Def Top Coat

Laura Geller Prep-n-Go Lip Scrub and Tint Duo

Laura Geller Lasting Love Chubby Lip Stain—Pinot Noir

If you were starring on The Nanny now, is there anything you would want to do differently in terms of Fran Fine’s makeup or hair?

I can’t say I would because that character was from the ’90s and that was what was kind of in vogue then. And certainly girls from Queens were wearing big hair and all of that stuff. A Room With a View had also come out at the time, and it was becoming all the rage, and influenced hair and makeup. I think what I liked about Fran Fine was that she was always wiping lipstick off her teeth, powdering her face, setting her hair. She was very much a regular girl that I think the viewer could relate to. We really saw her living her life in the Sheffield mansion, and that’s what made it funny because she didn’t behave as a nanny should, working for aristocracy on Park Avenue, living in a mansion. I think if we had it to do over, we would do it the same way. And if the show was brought into the moment and was played by another actress, she would still have to have that lack of sophistication in her look.