Joy Sunday Breaks Down Her Beauty Philosophy and Must-Have Products for Lancôme's 90th Anniversary Campaign (Exclusive)

Joy Sunday has ne'er been acrophobic to beryllium bold.

The Wednesday actress, 28, has made waves pinch her siren-inspired beauty connected nan it Netflix show arsenic Bianca Barclay and connected nan reddish carpet pinch her next-level looks.

The rising prima is 1 of nan faces of Lancôme's "Older, Happier & Bolder" run — successful summation to her chap world ambassadors, Amanda Seyfried, Nico Parker and Isabella Rossellini — which celebrates nan brand's 90th anniversary.

Sunday, who is celebrating her 29th day connected Sept. 25, tells PEOPLE exclusively that nan marque has been a champion successful her life since childhood, acknowledgment to her mother, and has helped her clasp being much experimental pinch her regular arsenic she prepares to make different travel astir nan sun.

"My mom utilized to person this Lancôme lipstick successful a nice, heavy reddish that she'd put connected erstwhile going to work. It's astir apt nan first constitution marque that I was ever alert of," she says. "I ever knew it had an accent connected soul beauty. That was really important for maine increasing up."

Though Sunday grew up seeing her mother usage Lancôme lipstick, her ain beauty travel didn't statesman until she started her acting career. To make an belief during auditions, nan character says she started playing astir pinch liners and fell successful emotion pinch emphasizing her eyes.

"The first point I really started doing consistently was oculus makeup," Sunday recalls. "That was nan first clip I ever understood shaping my face. Acting was really I would alteration my appearance, typically pinch immoderate elemental eyeliner and a small spot of blush. It was very rudimentary, humble beginnings."

Now, Sunday dials up nan play pinch colour connected her eyes (sometimes moreover utilizing a nosy eyeshadow arsenic liner!) and finds it difficult to defy a nosy gloss connected her lips . She cites nan Lip Idôle JuicyTreat Lip Oil Gloss ($32) arsenic a container and beauty staple, nary matter what.

"I'm ever going to beryllium a articulator girl. My lips return for illustration 50% of my face," she jokes, "so I person to make judge I moisturize and gloss it. If I person thing other connected my face, nan articulator gloss is going to assistance maine for nan day." Sunday's constitution successful nan run — done by her MUA Pauly Blanch — featured nan gloss successful nan shadiness 10 Pink Ôh La La, alongside nan brand's Idôle Café Crush Eyeshadow Palette.

Her base, however, has ever focused connected bringing retired nan champion successful her skin. "I usage a batch of colour connected my eyes and my lips, but my guidelines is beautiful elemental because I've ever appreciated looking for illustration myself," she adds. "I emotion that Lancôme's products helped maine do that successful specified an easy, effortless way."

In summation to nan JuicyTreats Lip Oil Gloss, Sunday's look glows pinch nan one-two punch of nan Absolue Soft Cream Moisturizer ($280) and nan Absolue The Eye Cream ($180), some of which conflict nan quality of good lines and wrinkles, and springiness nan tegument a sparkling quality astatine each age.

"I'm ever sad to accidentally skip 1 of nan creams erstwhile I'm rushing because past it conscionable feels for illustration my look is falling apart," she says. "There's nary way. I can't spell done nan time without my ultra moisturizers."

For Sunday, each day represents a caller assurance section and she chooses to position aging arsenic thing to celebrate.

"I first disconnected clasp each twelvemonth of my life. I tin ne'er beryllium sad that I'm getting older, because I've besides been bolder," she explains. "I've been directing and producing, and that is showing a boldness successful maine because I've struggled pinch imposter syndrome for years, truthful nan run resonates pinch maine profoundly because Lancôme is empowering maine to really judge successful myself."

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Though "being successful nan trenches of nan intermezo industry" tin sometimes make Sunday "hyper alert of really group are receiving me," she doesn't let it to make her insecure.

"I deliberation it's really important to beryllium connected nan different broadside of it and say, it's beautiful to spot that your look is changing, that you aren't going to beryllium nan aforesaid personification for a 100 years of your life. That we tin alteration and turn pinch our look and our body," she concludes. "It's a privilege to unrecorded life and to person it bespeak connected you. You're a capsule for a batch of memories, and I tin only wish to clasp it each day."