I’m not exactly a sports girlie, but I can’t get enough of the Paris Olympics. I literally sat on the floor of Samantha Barry‘s office in awe watching as Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team—led by both Biles and Suni Lee—won the gold medal in the women’s artistic team all-around final (and in a short dress, no less).
I’m not alone in my all-American enthusiasm: Nicole Kidman sported red, white, and blue while cheering the gymnasts on from the audience. The devotion is real, and apparently, international (Kidman is Australian). But while Biles and her teammates’ athleticism is beyond exemplary, to say the very least, I also couldn’t help but notice how gorgeous the GOAT’s glam looked.
This isn’t me reducing a strong and powerful woman to her appearance—Biles has been openly passionate about Olympics beauty prep. Biles chronicled her pre-Paris hair and nail appointments in a GRWM TikTok, during which she revealed that remarkably does her own eyelashes. I can’t even do that (or literally anything else she does)!
Clearly, Simone Biles puts serious thought into her Parisian performance glam, which brings me to my next point: We now know exactly which products she used for flawless competition complexion. Drumroll, please…
Thanks to some Pulitzer-worthy photography that captured Biles touching up her makeup ahead of the floor exercise amid the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team Final, we can confirm that Biles’ setting powder of choice is none other than Fenty Beauty’s Invisimatte Instant Setting + Blotting Powder. Am I surprised? No. It’s the same one Rihanna re-applied in the midst of her Super Bowl Halftime Show, so clearly, it works.
Now here’s where things get complicated. While Biles is undeniably using the Fenty setting powder, I am not 100% sure which lip liner she’s applying. A handful of TikTok sleuths assert that it’s the NYX Professional Makeup Slim Lip Pencil and have expressed disbelief that the GOAT is “using drug store makeup.”
While I cannot confirm it beyond uncertainty of a doubt, I did some serious zooming on the above images and compared them with the lip liner, and it very strongly resembles the NYX lip liner in shade “Espresso,” which is indeed only $5 on Amazon and at most drug stores.
