Maya Hawke

🐷 Homeoplasmine, 🌻 Janet Planet ,🐸 Fever Tree yuzu lime soda, and more.

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Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Maya Hawke to share a taste of her taste on Perfectly Imperfect.

Maya Hawke is a New York City-based actress and musician who you might recognize from high-profile roles in Stranger Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Asteroid City. Last year, she executive produced and starred in Wildcat, a biographical film about Flannery O'Connor, that her father (the highly acclaimed Ethan Hawke) directed with love. Her most recent film, Disney’s Inside Out 2 is currently out in theaters, and Maya’s third album, Chaos Angel, came out a few months ago. She explained the conceptualization of this record in a great interview with Vogue earlier this summer. Her first single, “Dark,” arrived with a beautiful music video made by PI-friends like Alex Ross Perry, Jessica DiMento, Marcus Maddox, and Teddy Blanks, among others. Lucky for us, Maya’s here to tell us what she’s been into. 

Without further ado

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🐷 Homeoplasmine

is like a Vaseline-ish product…my understanding is it's like French Vaseline. Sometimes I get dry skin above my eyelids and around the corners of my mouth, and it helps a lot and doesn't do any damage like cortisone cream which can weaken the skin if overused. 

My brain used to be so susceptible to expensive “beauty” product advertising, but then I started getting really bad acne in my early 20’s, so now I see a dermatologist and use some medicated skin care, which helps so much and outside of that I love finding pharmacy or grocery store solutions to my skin issues. Like the aforementioned Homeoplasmine, coconut oil as body lotion, and icing my under eyes in the morning. This is all really obvious stuff, so I'm putting it under the umbrella of Homeoplasmine. 

(I do, however, still buy pretty lux moisturizers because the meds dry my skin out soooooo much.) 

🐸 Fever Tree yuzu lime soda.

Honestly, I may have replaced my love of random creams and serums with my love of what i call “drink-ys” 

Which here means:  non-alcoholic flavored sodas. I do love all the crazy LA ones that have, like, mushroom adaptogens and promise to improve your mood. Though, thus far, nothing improves my mood like a lime yuzu Fever Tree poured over ice. Totally satisfies a craving for a cocktail or a dessert. 

🌻 Janet Planet 

Written and directed by Annie Baker, Janet Planet has settled in my mind as the best movie I’ve seen this year. It’s sort of a slow burn, but it keeps burning in your heart months and months after you finish watching. It’s slow and highly visual, but doesn’t feel tone poem-y at all. The performances are extraordinary. And the way that Annie uses the camera to convey emotion is like a master class. You never feel the director, only the story. But if you analyze the film later, you realize how gracefully you were guided through.

🦬 Legend of Korra

A lifelong fan of Avatar the last Airbender, I resisted the Legend of Korra for a long time. But after completing maybe my 300th rewatch of the original series, I was hungry for more and dove back into Korra.

Wow was I blown away. 

Korra's story is almost more like real life than Aangs. It's not just one big bad bad guy you have to defeat, it's lots of medium sized bad guys. Some want world domination, some want to liberate the world through force, and Korra tackles them all bravely as well as the demons and fear within herself. 

🦟 Parasyte

Not the film, but the anime TV show. They are totally different stories that have nothing to do with each other, but both happen to be excellent.

You don’t need me to recommend the film to you, as it won the Oscar, but the show, if you haven’t seen it, is incredible. 

I recommend it to all fans of anime, to fans of the Matrix, or fans of sorta the pandemic genre, if such a genre exists, which I think it does. 

It is exciting. It’s hot. It’s fun and I cried at the end.