Christine Taylor, 55, on Microcurrent, Ultrasound and Aging on Her Own Terms
The 55-year-old actress reveals her exact routine: Clear + Brilliant, annual Ultherapy, microcurrent at Stillpoint Beauty — and why she stopped judging red carpet photos.
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The takeaway
- Christine Taylor, 55, does Clear + Brilliant every few months and Ultherapy once a year, with no invasive procedures.
- She gets microcurrent facials at Stillpoint Beauty in Manhattan's garment district and lymphatic drainage at Tracie Martyn.
- Her Brady Bunch Movie sequel contract included a wig after near-weekly root coloring damaged her hair on the first film.
Christine Taylor, 55, has never skipped a nighttime skin-care routine — not once. "I would never skip a night," she told NewBeauty in a new interview. "When you're exhausted, and you're like, 'Let's just do a makeup wipe and go to sleep!' No, that's not me."
The actress, who rose to fame playing Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and lives in New York with husband Ben Stiller, says her husband now anticipates the ritual. "It's hilarious for Ben, because he's like, 'Here we go, the nighttime routine is coming.'"
Her regimen is straightforward: alternating cleansers, a serum, moisturizer and eye creams every night. Now in her 50s, she keeps separate product sets for warm and cold New York weather. She drinks water almost exclusively — with occasional Stiller's Soda and Diet Coke — because her skin leans dry.
The Treatments
Taylor's professional menu is specific. She gets microcurrent facials with Sarah at Stillpoint Beauty, a one-woman studio in Manhattan's garment district she discovered nine or ten years ago. "I'll do a session before work or a red carpet because I can actually see it in photos afterward," she said. "It's deeply relaxing too—I fall asleep during it, even with the little jolts."
For lymphatic drainage, she goes to Tracie Martyn. "Now that I'm 55, that's a game changer—you can just feel the puffiness drain out," she said.
On the dermatology side, Taylor does Clear + Brilliant, a low-level laser, every few months. Once a year she gets Ultherapy, which she calls "a bit more intensive, but you still walk out looking normal." She has not chosen anything invasive. "I think it's working for now," she said. She also favors dermaplaning — removing the peach fuzz, she notes, makes her products work better — and mixes splurge items with decently priced ones.
The Marcia Brady Hair Lesson
Filming The Brady Bunch Movie demanded relentless color work. The director wanted the actresses' bright blonde to look like it "was growing out of our heads naturally," so a colorist retouched Taylor's roots almost weekly, sometimes every ten days. When the movie wrapped and her natural color grew back, restoring hair health required lowlights and restraint. "It was a genuine eye-opener about how deep you can get into hair color," she said. Her contract for the sequel included one key demand: a wig. "The wig looked so much better than my actual processed hair did in the first movie."
Retro Nostalgia, On Her Terms
Taylor co-hosts the podcast Hey Dude...The 90s Called!, revisiting the entertainment industry before cell phones and social media. She has attended 90s Con for the last two years, meeting fans who grew up on her films — including one who told her watching the Brady Bunch movies every summer was a tradition with her father. "I still pinch myself that I started in Allentown in high school and I'm still here, still getting to work with young filmmakers," Taylor said.
Confidence Over Validation
The biggest shift with age, she said, is internal. "In my teens and 20s, so much of my confidence was based on external validation—if a job went well or someone said something nice, I felt great," she explained. "That doesn't work on me the same way anymore."
She has also quit reviewing red carpet photos the morning after. "I used to go back the next day and look at red carpet photos critically. It was always, 'Ugh, that angle wasn't great.' I stopped doing that," she said. "If I felt good in the moment and had a great time, that's what I want the memory to be."
Her advice to her teenage self: "Just to be easier on myself." She recalls looking at photos from her 20s in her 30s and thinking, "what was I thinking? I looked amazing!"
Taylor credits her daughter's generation, now in her early 20s, with self-acceptance that took Taylor decades to build — a shift she says is the best part of getting older.
Source: NewBeauty; Source: stillpointbeauty.com
Olivia Hart
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Senior reporter covering business strategy at Eurasian Beauty Journal.
