Jennifer Lawrence has insisted she doesn't wear headscarves as a fashion statement.
The Hollywood actress, 36, often photographed out and about with a scarf tied around her head but she's now revealed she's simply protecting her skin from sun damage as she has patches of melasma on her cheeks and she's treating them with vitamin A cream tretinoin, which is a more concentrated version of retinol.
She told Vogue magazine: "I’ve been wearing a scarf over my melasma spots ever since I started tret, which of course I get photographed [doing] and people think I’m making some sort of fashion statement.
"I’m literally just haggard and scaling and trying to survive ... [I wear scarves] because I get the melasma here. [on my cheeks] ...
"Yeah. There’s no amount of looking goofy that I’m going to care about more than my melasma."
When asked if she's tried SPF stickers which can be stuck on the face, she replied: "And you go out in that? So you just put on a handlebar mustache. Okay, I take back what I said. I do care a little bit more than you about what I look like. You are brave."
Jennifer also shared some of her best beauty secrets since she started using tretinoin, which can dry skin out and cause irritation.
She told the publication: "You have to sandwich. You have to use night cream, like something really moisturising. Then tret. Then a spritz of water and oil, because what I didn’t realise for so long, and I’m really happy to tell you this: oil traps the water in, so you have to give oil some water that the oil sits on top of so that it seals it into your skin."
Jennifer also revealed she often just uses olive oil on her skin instead of moisturiser if she's running low on time, saying: "Sometimes, if I don’t get to washing my face in the morning and I have to run down the stairs, then I put a little olive oil on my face."
However, she has given up using any creams or serums that contain vitamin C, saying: "I believe in my heart that vitamin C is going to help my skin, but I don’t know because I heard that it’s fake. So that’s over for me."
