Christine Ko on Learning to Harness the Power of Makeup
Christine Ko is an accomplished actress, having played the leader of the resistance on The Handmaid’s Tale, proved her comedic chops on season two of Only Murders in the Building, and currently starring as Emma on Dave, FX’s most-watched comedy ever (season three of which is airing now). But Ko didn’t always know she’d end up as an onscreen performer. Raised by her adoptive aunt in Georgia, Ko originally pursued a career in finance. But upon meeting her biological parents—both stars on Chinese television—at the age of 21, she realized acting was her dream all along. After working in the entertainment industry in Taiwan for years, Ko broke out with her role on Dave, which was the first project she was offered that didn’t pigeonhole her as a stereotype.
Is there a skincare product that you swear by?
I don’t get paid for skincare and I don’t think I ever will because I’m a diehard Jan Marini Skin Care fan. People keep sending me samples of other things, but I can’t not do Jan Marini. My aesthetician uses it. I was trying to get rid of sunspots, and I’ve tried every single nice beauty cream you could think of, but nothing made them go away like this Jan Marini regimen.
The two products I swear by are the Regeneration Booster—that’s my splurge. I’ll buy Trader Joe’s dinner so that I can have my Jan Marini Regeneration Booster. And then she has a vitamin C product, the C-ESTA Serum, and it’s the most brightening, lifting serum. It doesn’t pill under your makeup.