One of her best informants was her daughter with partner Danny Fujikawa, who, like many six year olds in 2025, is showing an interest in beauty products. “She’s so into it!” says Hudson, amazed. “It’s the modeling right now—she sees me getting my makeup done. It’s cute, because I had the same thing with my mom. When the mascara would go on, it was like, ‘Whoa.’ I can see Rani, and all she wants to do is put on my mascara, and I’m like, ‘Sweetheart, you can’t do that. How about balms and sparkles?’”
Her daughter’s aptitude for drawing, and her love of beauty, has made her something of a budding makeup artist. “She started doing my makeup, and she does perfect cat eyes,” says Hudson.
The conversation turned to hair. “It’s been years since I’ve done any hair [partnerships],” she says, dancing a finger over a nearby end table topped with a miniature Stonehenge of Joico’s Defy Damage product range. “I use this,” she says, picking up the Protection Shield cream, “to define my waves a little bit.” She gestures toward the shampoo and conditioner, and chirps, “I’m loving this!”
Asked to describe the texture of healthy hair, Hudson says “soft, buttery, yummy.” Her natural hair color is a rosier shade—she invokes her half-brother Wyatt Russell, whose beard is strawberry red, as a genetic reference—but has been highlighting and bleaching since her first appearance on film, at age 20, in 1999.
Still, she identifies as a low maintenance individual, and prefers to luxuriate in the months between hair appointments. “If I don’t need to, I’m not coloring my hair,” she says. “Either I’m putting masks in it all the time or doing nothing to it. Every once in a while, I’ll attempt a hairstyle, but then it mostly ends in failure.”
“Sometimes,” she says, “the best thing to do is nothing.”
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