Emilia Clarke has revealed she recently burnt her face on curling tongs and convinced her ‘Game of Thrones’ cast mates that it was a birth mark.
The 31-year-old actress has admitted she managed to fool her co-stars into thinking she’d always had a pink mark on her face after she rocked up to the show’s wrap party once with a painful burn mark following a failed hair style.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar magazine, she said, “I’m good at doing my own make-up; terrible at doing my own hair. Can’t do it to save my life. Never have been, never will be. I had a book of hairstyles when I was aged nine that my mum got me, that was like ‘how to do a French braid’ and months and months I poured over that book – and I can’t do it.”
“If I try and curl my own hair I burn my face or my ears, I’m hopeless. I recently burnt my face before the ‘Game of Thrones’ wrap party and everyone was like ‘we never noticed that massive
birthmark on your face!’ and I was like, ‘no, it’s a burn…’ I had my head under the tap for about three hours!”
Emilia takes her beauty regime very seriously but she doesn’t believe in a whole cabinet of lotions and potions and, instead, relies on a silk pillow that she flips every night to ensure her pores don’t get clogged and her hair stays frizz-free.
She explained: “I do the silk pillows. Because that’s easy. They’re not any more expensive than normal pillow cases. They actually aren’t.”
“And make sure they’re clean! A lot of us are lucky and we like to sleep in a double bed – so let’s say you have four pillows; one night you sleep on one side, the next night flip it over the other side, the next night do the same with the other pillow…”
“That way you’ve got a weeks’ worth of clean
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