Ziwe Will get Precise — and Really Into Make-up — Inside the Latest Self-importance Desk Focus on

Ziwe traded in her signature cue taking part in playing cards for make-up brushes inside the newest episode of e.l.f. Cosmetics’ Self-importance Desk Focus on.

The digital assortment combines the net’s favorite “Get Ready With Me” (or GRWM) video format with some current information from a couple of of our favorite female stars. Inside the latest episode, the Ziwe host brings her distinctive mannequin of comedy to the e.l.f. Cosmetics self-esteem, following inside the footsteps of fellow net icon Jennifer Coolidge, who kicked off the gathering in April.

The 31-year-old comedian begins the episode by strolling on set singing “e.l.f. did the issue” inside the vogue of Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTA rap sooner than diving correct in and chatting with the viewers in her predictably unpredictable Ziwe vogue.

“I spent my complete weekend in stasis,” she tells the digital digital camera whereas fastidiously making use of concealer. “In mattress, you already know, merely kind of vibing with the considered sleep.”

Recognized for purposefully inserting her firm inside the scorching seat by questioning them about heavy issues — such as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, which she as quickly as requested Drew Barrymore to the touch upon — Ziwe jokes that e.l.f. stands for “equality, liberation, freedom.”

Immediately after, she gives that “eyes, lips, face.” (which the mannequin’s determine actually stands for) “might be a really scorching pop tune.” (Humorous adequate, e.l.f. thought so too.)

Halfway by the use of the episode, Ziwe swaps out her GRWM robe for a satin blazer in a barely darker shade of the host’s signature pink hue to answer some rapid-fire questions, providing nuggets of information like “who cares what the critics ought to say if you happen to occur to go viral” and “I’m a lover not a fighter … till you piss me off.”

After she obtained precise on the self-esteem desk, PEOPLE sat down with Ziwe on the set of the e.l.f assortment to speak about her make-up journey, which she says began which she says was sparked by Naomi Campbell when she was 11.

“I’d try all of the items,” she instructed PEOPLE of her early days experimenting with cosmetics.

The comedian moreover says she likes to ask expert artists what they use, so she’s going to have the ability to do her make-up successfully in case she’s going to get caught in a star sighting: “I don’t want to flex, nevertheless I have been standing subsequent to people who get paparazzed.”

One such make-up artist is Karina Milan, who helped prep the comedian’s make-up for the episode. Milan, who works with celebrities like Yara Shahidi and Ice Spice, describes Ziwe’s make-up aesthetic as a “pretty-in-pink glam” that accentuates the star’s eyes “whereas not overwhelming the rest of the look.”

To create the Self-importance Desk Focus on look, which Milan describes as “someplace in between feeling simple and likewise reminiscing her crimson carpet seems to be like,” the artist’s favorite merchandise to utilize have been e.l.f.’s Vitality Grip Primer, Halo Glow Blush Magnificence Wand and 16HR Camo Concealer. The latter is a product that Ziwe herself tells PEOPLE she wish to steal from the set, calling it “pretty scorching on the streets.”

Milan moreover gushed in regards to the smarts beneath the comedian’s attractive comfy glam.

“What I like about having Ziwe in my chair is that I on a regular basis stroll away having found one factor new,” she tells PEOPLE. “She’s wise.”

The make-up artist continued, “She’s moreover very considerate and collaborative, which makes all people else’s job that so much easier. And, in actual fact, she’s effortlessly humorous and repeatedly has us guffawing! Love her.”

Later this summer time season, e.l.f. will launch the final word episode of the digital assortment with Emily in Paris star  Ashley Park.

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