7 Beauty Products Meghan Markle Has Used for Years
Trends come and go, but these are the beauty products Meghan Markle has named and repurchased for a decade or more, tracked product by product.
Beauty editors love a “what’s new” list. Meghan Markle’s actual routine tells a different story. Cross-reference her own interviews from the Suits years against what her glam team has revealed since the royal wedding, and a small, stubborn group of products keeps reappearing. No brand paid for that placement; she has simply never stopped using them. These are the beauty products Meghan Markle has used for years, some of them for well over a decade, verified against the dates she or her team actually named them.
This is a loyalty test, ranked by how long each product has survived in the routine. It runs from a haircare habit dating to 2013, through a fragrance still associated with her a decade later, to a drugstore trick her makeup artist has used since the wedding itself.
Kérastase Oléo-Relax haircare: documented since 2013
The oldest confirmed loyalty on this list predates Meghan’s fame by several years. In a 2013 interview with Beauty Banter, well before Suits had made her a recognisable name outside the show’s fanbase, Meghan was asked which products she used “religiously.” Her answer was unambiguous: “Kerastase (masquintense & the oleo relax line) and Wella.” The Oléo-Relax range is built around the brand’s Huile Oléo-Relax oil and a companion anti-frizz masque. It smooths and weighs down frizz-prone, wavy hair without stripping its movement, which suits Meghan’s naturally textured hair better than a straightening treatment would.
Thirteen years on, the range is still cited as part of her kit by beauty retailers stocking it alongside her other named favourites. It is a small, telling detail: long before a stylist or a title, Meghan’s haircare answer was already a specific, considered one, not a generic “I use whatever.” For the fuller shopping picture of where this and her other Sephora-stocked staples sit today, see our full Sephora edit.
Tatcha skincare: documented since 2014, still her named favourite
A year after the Kérastase interview, Tatcha entered the routine and never left it. In a 2014 Glamour interview Meghan named the brand’s Face Moisture Mask a favourite; the same year, she told Allure she “really” loved the Tatcha Rice Enzyme Powder, “a nice glycolic one that makes your skin really glow-y” in her words. Twelve years is a long time for any single skincare brand to hold a celebrity’s loyalty without a paid partnership behind it, and Tatcha’s Vicky Tsai has spoken publicly about the relationship, including an appearance connected to the Sussexes’ own Netflix documentary.
Because Tatcha’s staying power in Meghan’s routine deserves its own space, we have covered the full story, including the brand’s Kyoto origins, the specific products, and the decade-plus arc, in a dedicated deep dive and in our earlier Tig-era piece on her Tatcha favourites. What matters here is the timeline: this is the second-longest-running product loyalty on this list, and it shows no sign of ending.
NARS Orgasm blush: documented since 2014
In that same 2014 Allure interview, Meghan named a third staple: NARS Orgasm blush, the peachy-pink, gold-shimmer shade that has been one of the best-selling blushes in beauty for two decades. Her own explanation was practical rather than glamorous: “I use it on and off camera because it gives you a nice glow from within.” That is the kind of unsentimental, working-actress logic that runs through most of her early product answers: not “my favourite indulgence,” but “the thing that actually does the job.”
Twelve years later, Orgasm remains one of the most consistently repurchased products in the routine, still named in roundups of her beauty staples and still stocked wherever her other Sephora-era favourites are sold. Its longevity owes a lot to the shade itself, which has proven near-universally flattering across skin tones since its 1999 launch. That is a rare thing for a cult product to actually earn.
Jan Marini C-ESTA Face Serum: documented since 2014
The least famous name on this list is arguably the most telling one. Also in her 2014 Allure interview, Meghan named a third product beyond Tatcha and NARS: Jan Marini’s C-ESTA Face Serum, which she described as “a nice glycolic one that makes your skin really glow-y.” It is a vitamin C and glycolic-acid formula aimed at brightening and firming rather than simple hydration. Unlike Tatcha or NARS, the brand has never had a moment of mainstream celebrity crossover; it is a clinical, dermatologist-distributed line more often found through skin clinics than department stores.
That relative obscurity is exactly what makes the citation credible. There was little reputational upside in naming a niche serum unless it was genuinely part of the routine. Beauty roundups have continued to cite the 2014 quote as recently as 2023, suggesting the product has never needed a fresher endorsement to stay relevant to the story of what she actually uses.
Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution in Very Victoria: documented since 2015, resurfaced in 2023
By 2015, in a separate interview, Meghan named Charlotte Tilbury’s Matte Revolution lipstick in the shade Very Victoria, a soft, rosy-brown neutral, named for Victoria Beckham, that sits just alongside the brand’s better-known Pillow Talk. What makes this one unusual is that it did not stay a one-off answer from the Suits years. In September 2023, at the Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Meghan was photographed courtside in a shade royal-style trackers hunted down and confirmed as the same Very Victoria.
That is an eight-year gap between the original citation and a photographed, independently verified re-wearing, about as strong a piece of longevity evidence as a lipstick shade can produce. We cover the full identification story, the shade comparison to Pillow Talk, and where to find it in our Sephora beauty-picks edit.
Jo Malone Wild Bluebell and Wood Sage & Sea Salt: documented since her Suits years, reconfirmed in 2024
Fragrance answers tend to be the most personal, and Meghan’s has stayed remarkably consistent. During her Suits years, she told a UK interviewer, “Fragrance is my favourite thing… I alternate between a few scents,” naming Jo Malone’s Wild Bluebell and Wood Sage & Sea Salt colognes alongside Oribe’s Côte d’Azur. Both Jo Malone scents remain associated with her in fragrance coverage published as recently as 2024, a decade-spanning consistency that is unusual in a category where celebrities are typically paid to switch allegiance every year or two.
Wood Sage & Sea Salt, in particular, draws on notes of ambrette seed and sea salt to evoke the English coastline, while Wild Bluebell is a fresher, greener, more traditionally floral cologne. The pairing gives her two registers, daytime-fresh and slightly wilder, without straying from one trusted perfume house. For more on the royal family’s wider relationship with British fragrance houses, including Jo Malone, see our overview of royal beauty products.
The Aquaphor trick: documented since her 2018 wedding
The most recent entry is also the most surprising: a £/$12 drugstore healing balm, not a luxury highlighter. Meghan’s longtime makeup artist Daniel Martin has explained that he uses Aquaphor, applied sparingly to the high points of the face, in place of a traditional cream highlighter. It is a technique he used on her wedding day in May 2018 and has referenced in interviews in the years since. “Before highlighters, you would do highlighting with Aquaphor,” as Martin has put it, framing it as an old backstage trick rather than a new discovery.
Eight years on from the wedding, it remains the single most-cited product in Martin’s account of her glow, resurfacing in interviews tied to her more recent public appearances. For the full technique, including where exactly it goes and why it photographs better than powder highlighter, read our dedicated piece on the Aquaphor secret.
What the longevity actually shows
Line these seven up by year, and a pattern appears that a single “current favourites” list would never reveal. Three products (Kérastase, Tatcha, and the NARS/Jan Marini pair) were named before Meghan was famous at all, when there was no publicist’s incentive to say anything except the truth. Two more, the Charlotte Tilbury lipstick and the Jo Malone scents, have been independently reconfirmed years after their first mention, by photographers and fragrance writers with no connection to her original answer. The newest, Aquaphor, has simply never been replaced by something more expensive in eight years of wedding-glow requests.
That is the real story here: not which products are trending in Meghan Markle’s routine this season, but which ones have quietly outlasted every trend around them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the oldest beauty product Meghan Markle has used?
The Kérastase Oléo-Relax haircare range is the longest-documented, first named by Meghan in a 2013 interview, thirteen years before this piece was written.
Does Meghan Markle still use Tatcha?
Yes. Tatcha, first named by Meghan in 2014, remains one of her most consistently cited skincare brands, with continued references through recent years including ties to the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary.
Why does Meghan Markle’s makeup artist use Aquaphor instead of highlighter?
Daniel Martin has explained that Aquaphor gives a natural, glassy sheen on the high points of the face that reads well in photographs, a backstage technique he used for her 2018 wedding makeup and has referenced since.
What lipstick shade did Meghan Markle wear at the Invictus Games?
She wore Charlotte Tilbury’s Matte Revolution in Very Victoria, the same shade she had named as a favourite in a 2015 interview, eight years earlier.
What is Meghan Markle’s favourite blush?
NARS Orgasm, a peachy-pink shade with gold shimmer that Meghan named in a 2014 Allure interview as a product she uses “on and off camera” for a natural glow.
What perfume does Meghan Markle wear?
She has named Jo Malone’s Wild Bluebell and Wood Sage & Sea Salt colognes, alongside Oribe’s Côte d’Azur Eau de Parfum, as scents she alternates between, a preference dating to her Suits years and reconfirmed in coverage as recently as 2024.
Is Jan Marini C-ESTA Serum the same product Meghan Markle uses?
Meghan named the Jan Marini C-ESTA Face Serum specifically in a 2014 Allure interview, describing it as a glycolic formula that made her skin “glow-y”; it is a niche, clinic-distributed product rather than a mainstream beauty-counter brand.
Are any of these products still available to buy?
Yes. All seven remain in active production and are stocked through their respective brands or through Sephora’s UK site, which carries the Tatcha, Kérastase, NARS and Charlotte Tilbury items among them.
Years of use reflect the earliest publicly documented mention of each product by Meghan Markle or her stated makeup and hair team, cross-checked against subsequent sightings and interviews through 2024 and 2025. Individual routines can change; for the latest, see the brand-specific pieces linked above.
