What Alison Brie Can’t Live Without

I love Colorescience’s mineral-based pressed-powderconcealer. It’s the only makeup that’s ever been approved by my facialist as something that’s not a terrible pore-clogger. I feel like mineral-based makeup doesn’t always sound like it does anything, but this stuff is really interesting because in thepalette, it comes with a guide that tells you “this corrects browns” and “this corrects blues.” It’s one of the only things I can use to cover a vein, and it’s great for covering mymelasma. It’s also pretty compact and thin, and it has its own little applicator so you can keep it in your purse. I use mine all the time. Because of the different shades, it also works as an all-in-one makeup kit, especially if you’re a pale girl like me, because you can use a little bit as aneye shadowandblushif you’re in your car and need something last-minute.

When I’m shooting on location or away from home, I wear one every single night tosleep. It’s especially helpful if I have a really early call time and I’m going tobedat like 8 p.m. Something about putting it over my eyes really forces me to fall asleep. At this point, it’s Pavlovian. I put it on and my body’s like, “Oh, okay, good night!” I’ve used a lot ofdifferent brands, but right now, I’m loving this one. I like that it’s thick all the way around my head.

I’m not really acoffee drinker, because it makes me really grouchy. It spikes my energy too quickly and then drops me immediately, and when you’re shooting, it’s at least a 12-hour day, so if I have coffee, by hour four I’m like, “I’m angry now.” So I’m really more of ateagirl and just keep coffee as a special treat. I love loose-leaf tea, because I like tosteepit myself. Art of Tea has really beautiful teas. I love a goodgreen teaor awhite tea, and sometimes ablack teaif I’m feeling really dangerous. [Art of Tea’s products are] really good quality. Sometimes they even look really pretty and have flower petals in them.

I can’t live withoutPapaw. I use it as a ChapStick, but it’s an “everything” ointment. You can put it onburns, you can put it onbug bites. It’s made out of papaya, and it’s all natural. It’smade in Australia, and I just love it. It’s truly one of my favorite things. I use it constantly, and every job I work on, I tell the makeup artists to get it. I always have one in my purse.

These things are incredible. I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about them. You put them overblemishesat night (or all day, for at least six hours), and they suck all the bad stuff out — you can even see it on thepatch. They’re especially great if you’ve popped a pimple and you don’t want to keep messing with it and making it worse, but you’re not sure if you got everything out. You can just pop one on and forget about it. It keeps the area around a blemish moist and fostershealingat the same time, while also keeping the dirt out and flattening your zits. They’re really very cool.

I’ve become obsessed with thesesmall-batch raw vegan protein bars. I’m not vegan, but like a lot of people, I’m a gal on the go. I try to eat fairly healthy and have high-proteincontent in my diet because I work out a lot, and I’m always trying to hang on to that muscle mass. Most protein bars that you find, you can’t pronounce 90 percent of the ingredients or they have a lot of sugar. These are great because everything that’s in them is, like,almond butterand coconut and apples anddatesand things like that. They’re really tasty, and they come in a lot of different flavors. Theapple cinnamonis my favorite, but there’s also ablueberry almond flavorthat I like.

For the last year, I have been doing Pilates at Forma Pilates in Los Angeles, which I like because the classes are really small. They have an app, so I can do Forma Pilatesonlinewhen I’m traveling. There are videos of different lengths, but mostly I do the 25-minuteclasses, because it’s a really nice way to get into my body before going to work, and it’s a really manageable amount of time to squeeze in even if I have to get up at 4:30 a.m. Also, there’s something gentle about Pilates — this is especially true if you’re getting up early and trying to fit in aworkout— because it’s all about musculature, and it was created as a form of rehabilitation. It’s not like waking up and doing burpees or something insane. You’re lying down, and it’s engaging your core and glutes. It’s also great because they use minimal props, so it’s mostly stuff I can pack in mysuitcase, likebandsor a couple of two-poundankle weights, so that’s really handy.