Vogue Saw Dua Lipa’s Brand New Skincare Line First

“In 2016, I started touring quite heavily and I needed a skincare routine that wasn’t high maintenance,” the Radical Optimism star explains. At 21, working with a “bunch of boys who didn’t do skincare”, Lipa came to understand the importance of a consistent but concise routine. Simultaneously, her metrics for what good health and good nutrition looked like changed, too. “I think everything’s quite different now,” she reflects. “Everything shifted.”

Cut to 2025 and Lipa is ready to announce one of her most exciting projects to date: DUA, a skincare line created in collaboration with luxury skincare brand Augustinus Bader. A longtime AB loyalist, DUA represents everything the freshly-minted 30-year-old has learned about effective skincare that still feels elegant.

“I wanted to create something that felt like it could really restore and protect my skin,” she tells British Vogue. “I get the occasional breakouts and dryness, especially from long-haul flights,” she explains. “I did a lot of learning on the job and now I feel like I know how to combat the busyness and the madness of my schedule and still take care of myself.”

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Her line is compact – just what you’d expect from someone used to editing down their essentials in order to jet across the globe – and consists of just three products: a creamy cleanser, an antioxidant-packed serum, and a nourishing moisturiser.

“I wanted a face wash that felt really moisturising but not tight or squeaky for all the wrong reasons,” she explains when I ask her to take me through the thinking behind each one, starting with the Balancing Cream Cleanser. “Then, I wanted to have a serum that I felt had all the good vitamins in it to give you that glow, but also hydrate and support your skin barrier.”

DUA™ Balancing Cream Cleanser

Lipa’s Supercharged Glow Complex is chock full of those “good vitamins”. There’s vitamin B7 and niacinamide for even skin tone, along with firming marine bio-retinol, bounce-imbuing glycerol glucoside and strengthening ectoin. The prerequisites for her moisturiser – the Renewal Cream – were that it be “bouncy, soft and nice”, and light enough to reapply.

DUA™ Supercharged Glow Complex

The secret sauce is something only Professor Bader (creator of the original eponymous brand) and Lipa could have cooked up together: TFC5. A patented version of Augustinus Bader’s trademark hero-ingredient TFC8, TFC5 is Lipa’s baby and underpins each of her products.