During the feature, she explained that she tried using beauty products to get into character for the show, as it's set in the 1980s, but that her plan "backfired."
"I thought I would buy this perfume from the '80s," she said. "I was like, 'I wonder what this is gonna smell like,' and sprayed it on before a scene with Joe Keery. It was atrocious. It was so strong and powdery and just not the vibe at all."
Dyer also opened up about her skin — which she described as "finicky" and "sensitive" — and said she "broke out a lot" as a teenager.
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Though she now has a routine that works for her, as she told Vogue, Dyer has continued to experiment with new techniques.
"I did go through a phase where I was making these yogurt, turmeric, honey face masks, and I did think it was pretty brightening," she said. "But the only thing is that it was quite hard to get off."
"I remember one of the first days I went to set for 'Stranger Things' and the makeup artist was kind of like, 'What is going on?' and just started removing all this yellow that I had missed from the turmeric," she continued.
"It's kind of fun to live in that world," she told Vogue. "My favorite thing honestly is when she starts out very put together, and then as the season goes on, she usually ends up disheveled and messy and dirty and sweaty, and for me, that's kind of where it gets really fun."
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