Before Sharon Osbourne, 73, begins her morning beauty ritual, there’s something else she must do.
“The morning routine has to be the news, the world news. I’m, like, addicted to it,” Osbourne told host Bunnie XO on her “Dumb Blonde” podcast. “I’ll check Instagram, check my emails, and then I start with the ice on the face.”
The TV personality and wife of Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne, who died in July, is specific about how she uses ice in her skincare routine.
“I do the bowl, and then I do it in, you know, in a little baggie, and just keep doing it. And then I do a face mask, and then I start the day,” she said.
Osbourne is equally meticulous about her hair, refreshing her signature red shade “every 10 days.”
But keeping the bold color vibrant isn’t easy since it gets “everywhere,” she said.
“It’s a nightmare. My neck is red. Everything I wear is red. The pillowcases,” Osbourne said.
She added that the closest she ever came to going blonde was getting highlights in the ’80s, but red is the shade she keeps coming back to because her mother was a redhead.
“Of course, you know, it’s gray or white or whatever color it is underneath. And I tried doing that, and that was just miserable,” Osbourne said.
“I would look at my reflection sometimes, like in a shop window. I’d go, who the fuck is that? It’s me. Like, no thanks,” she said.
Osbourne isn’t the only public figure who says reading the news is a nonnegotiable part of their mornings.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he starts his day by reading Techmeme, a site that aggregates tech news from across outlets.
Martha Stewart, 84, says she wakes up at around 4:30 a.m. and spends the first part of her morning reading the news and doing puzzles.
Peter Warwick, CEO of Scholastic, says he begins each morning by browsing news sites and checking for updates on his favorite English Premier League team, Arsenal.
