2020-01-01_InStyle_Australia

“I CUT HAIR FOR

10 BUCKS A HEAD

IN JUNIOR HIGH. I

COULD PROBABLY

CUT YOUR HAIR”

The Hallworths have an undeniable eye, having

dressed Aniston in many a show-stopping dress.

Among her favourites are the custom Schiaparelli Haute

Couture gown that she wore to the 2018 Golden Globes

and a sequined cocktail frock by Stella McCartney that

she wore to the premiere of her Netflix film Dumplin’.

It’s no secret that Aniston gravitates towards black for

the red carpet. It’s also her preferred hue for her T-shirts,

jeans and wedge heels. She’s a queen of consistency,

whether she’s choosing her clothes or who’s in her

inner circle. “Some people would call that playing it

safe,” she says. “But I know when I’m comfortable with

something (or someone), and I know when I’m not.”

Until recently, the Hallworth sisters’ Instagram account

was one of the few places you’d glimpse Aniston, thanks to

her self-professed aversion to social media. (Although she

has admitted she was on the platform for a while under a

private pseudonym.) That all changed with a cataclysmic

bang on October 15, when Aniston posted her first public

photo, and stole the Guinness World Record for fastest one

million followers (five hours and 16 minutes) from Prince

Harry and Meghan Markle. By the end of her first day,

she’d amassed more than 10 million followers, temporarily

crashing the global app in the process. At the time of this

magazine going to print, she had passed 20 million.

Could Aniston have imagined so many eyes on her as

a kid? The short answer is no, but by the time she was 25,

Friends had thrust her into the spotlight, where she has

remained ever since. “I was such a grown-up by then,” she

says, shaking her head. “I had moved away from home.

I had been on six failed television shows. I waitressed

for years in New York before I got anything. And I was

a telemarketer selling time-shares in the Poconos

[Pennsylvania]. I didn’t make one sale. I was terrible at it.

I was like, ‘Why do we have to call people at dinnertime?’”

Other odd jobs: “I cut hair for 10 bucks a head in

junior high. I could probably cut your hair,” she says.

Her long-time hairstylist, Chris McMillan, her “brother

from another mother” who created the “Rachel style” for

her in the ’90s, might disagree. See also: her father, the

actor John Aniston. “I cut my dad’s hair, and he was on

a soap opera [Days of Our Lives]. But then he admitted

to me 15 years ago that he would go in and have the

hairdresser on set clean it up.”

Speaking of hair, I mention I couldn’t help but notice

that her character Alex had perfectly highlighted tresses

while Carell’s coif was fully grey. Women might have more

power today, but they still often choose to colour their

hair. Aniston confides that she plans to keep her monthly

colourist appointments until the bitter end. “I’m not

gonna lie—I don’t want grey hair,” she says.

Skincare, however, is her real obsession. “I think

it’s because my mum told me to start moisturising when

I turned 15,” she says. “I’ve been using Aveeno since I was

a teenager.” (And, in a lovely kismet twist, she became

the face of the Aveeno brand in 2013.) Aniston is a facial

aficionado and rattles off the names of her go-to pros:

Georgia Louise in New York, Lupita at Mila Moursi in

Beverly Hills, Joanna Czech in Dallas and New York, and

Melanie Simon in Montecito, California. She also swears

by her daily glass of celery juice and E3Live superfood

supplements, as well as a series of complexion-friendly

tools, such as the vibrating 24-carat-gold sculpting bar

from her friend, make-up artist Jillian Dempsey. “It feels

so damn good to put oil on your face and just roll,” she says.

One of Aniston’s beauty regrets is not using sunscreen

when she was younger, but she hopes her good genes will

prevail. “My grandmother, at 98, had the most stunningly

soft, gorgeous skin, and she would just put olive oil on her

body.” Would she like to live as long? “I am all about living

to whatever age I’m supposed to. As long as I’m thriving.”

When you think about the arc of Aniston’s career, she

is gaining momentum rather than slowing down. So, yes,

thriving seems to be a pretty apt descriptor. With season

one of Morning Wars completed and Apple committed to

a second season, even Aniston is allowing herself to

experience a rare moment of pride. “When we found out

that we were one of the first shows to be bought by Apple,

Reese and I both had this pinch-me moment,” she says.

“The first women to help launch a network as actors and

producers, having a beautiful piece of that pie that we

really earned and deserved. We had a big toast to that.”

And, of course, the Genius Bar perks aren’t bad either.

“I have to get those Apple guys on my speed dial,” she

jokes. “When we went to Cupertino for the launch of the

show, I was chatting with one of them and said, ‘You know, I

have a couple of things I’d like to talk to you about.’” ■