Everyone Wants to Know What Huda Mustafa From “Love Island USA” Smells Like

In The Scenario, reporter Kirbie Johnson takes readers behind the scenes of the buzziest movies and TV shows to reveal how the best wigs, special effects makeup, and more are created. For this edition, Johnson spoke with Love Island USA season 7 contestant Huda Mustafa to set the record straight on which products she really used in the villa.

Season six of Love Island US manufactured several bonafide beauty influencers, like islanders Leah Kateb, who’s been named the chief creative officer of fragrance brand Skylar, and JaNa Craig, who’s partnered with brands like Maybelline, Shea Moisture, and Flamingo since exiting the villa. The show’s impact is no different following season seven, with brands sliding into the comment sections to cozy up to islanders, including winner Amaya Espinal, Olandria Carthen, and Huda “mamacita” Mustafa, who each had viral moments on the show—and are clearly obsessed with beauty. But what brands were they actually using on the show?

A few days after her release from the villa, Mustafa, a 24-year-old fitness instructor, chatted with Allure about her love for makeup, which runs deep. “Remember when everyone was doing the [Anastasia Beverly Hills] Dip Brow situation? I would do my eyeliner and make little tutorials,” she says. “I was obsessed with makeup back [during the] Kylie lip challenge—I was doing the overlining lip thing. Even now, I am obsessed with makeup and playing around.”

During season seven, we saw the women of the cast using a lot of Maybelline and CeraVe products while getting ready because the glam suite was stocked with those brands—they were sponsors, after all. But for her daily routine, Mustafa packed a slew of her other favorites. “I have a very thorough makeup routine,” she says. “I like Benefit Cosmetics [Hoola] Bronzer, the Charlotte Tilbury [Beauty Light Wand] highlighter and [Airbrush Flawless] setting spray. I love Hourglass brushes and concealers. I loved the Maybelline concealers as well in the villa. I used the Natasha Denona primer.” As for her lips, she says she usually only wore a little MAC lip liner because her natural lip color is flushed on its own.