For Coco Jones, 2025 is shaping as much as be one for the books. In April, she dropped her long-awaited debut album, Why Not Extra?, then hit the highway a month later for her second headlining tour. As if that weren’t spectacular sufficient, she’s racked up nominations for 2 Grammys and two BET Awards—cementing her standing as one in every of music’s brightest stars. However Jones is not only a powerhouse vocalist—she’s additionally a seasoned actress. She’s spent the final 4 years enjoying Hilary Banks on the Peacock collection Bel-Air, wrapping up the fourth and last season this month. 

At 27, Jones has already achieved lots of her wildest goals. However as her album title suggests, there’s at all times extra to expertise and discover. That mindset reveals up within the strikes she’s been making exterior of the leisure trade. Most not too long ago, she stepped into the wonder world to collaborate with The Lip Bar on “The Why Not Extra Lippies? Restricted-Version Assortment.” 

On Instagram, Jones talked in regards to the partnership, sharing, “I have been obsessive about The Lip Bar since day one…We collabed on 4 completely different seems to be that seize each model of you, from important character vitality to mushy woman simplicity, and these seems to be are tremendous pigmented. They’re going to final you all day, too, no drama. Whether or not you are getting into the boardroom or stepping right into a brunch, there is a lippie on this assortment that will get it.”

Forward, Jones talks extra about working with The Lip Bar, her method to magnificence, and what she hopes listeners will be taught from her album.

On Working With a Black-Owned Magnificence Model

“It means a lot to me to be partnered with a Black-owned magnificence model. The Lip Bar caters to Black girls in a approach that, if you happen to aren’t a Black girl, it is laborious to essentially know precisely what we want. I believe that The Lip Bar is aware of precisely what we want for the completely different moments in our lives and the completely different paths that all of us take. They make Black girls really feel very seen.”

The One Make-up Should-Have She Makes use of Each day

“My greatest make-up must-have is sunscreen primer. I actually worth solar safety, in order that may be very essential to me. And I would additionally say a setting powder as a result of I usually get oily.”

The One Method Her Method to Magnificence Has Advanced

“[In] my early profession days, my mother did my make-up, and as I received older, I grew a ardour for make-up and hair, and began to analysis and examine it alone. I went from a lack of expertise to an actual ardour for magnificence, skincare, make-up, and hair.”

The One Coiffure That Makes Her Really feel Assured

“I really like a great buss down center half. However I even have actually been into the layered hair, with the blowout curls. They appear so easy and mushy. That form of bed-head with a contact of perfection actually eats to me.”

The One Factor She Hopes Folks Take Away From Her Album

“I hope that they be taught that I am similar to them. All of us have completely different paths of life, however all of us really feel the identical emotions, and all of us wish to be validated in these emotions. Hopefully, they really feel a stage of connection to me, the particular person, exterior of this complete artist world. I am only a human being. My job is music, and any individual else’s job can be one thing else. However we in all probability expertise the identical emotions on a day-to-day foundation.”