Pharrell Williams Shares His Adaptable Skincare Routine That Preserves His Youth

Since the start of the new century, producer and recording artist Pharrell Williams has been putting out huge songs both solo (2013’s Oscar-nominated chart-topper “Happy”) and with famous names like Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake.

Although Pharrell, 51, is widely recognized as a creative force in music, he is also well-known for something more superficial: his ability to stay young forever. He hasn’t changed much over the years, and there’s a straightforward explanation for his young appearance. Put differently, feel free to give it a shot at home.

“Believe it or not, exfoliation, man,”

Williams said “Believe it or not, exfoliation, man, Exfoliation is the key.”

For him, there’s also an additional component to his perpetual youth.

He said “Now, there is a routine, and you can find them online, but I think probably the most active portion of it all… No, it’s two. It’s exfoliating, but it’s also in here,”

“It’s literally in here. That inner child, don’t ever silence it. Don’t ever [go], ‘Oh, I can’t do this anymore.’ No. That’s why you should absolutely do it right now. The people who want to put you in a box? They tried to do that to me too, and here we are.” He added.

Morgan Neville, the director of Pharrell’s critically acclaimed new documentary, Piece by Piece, It will open in theaters on October 11; it defies categorization. Rather than producing a typical Behind the Music-type movie, he made the decision to, as the title implies, piece together his documentary, using animated LEGO figures to explain the whole narrative.

Pharrell wasn’t really interested

When Pharrell’s representative proposed that he make a documentary six or seven years ago, he wasn’t very interested. His agent then thought up another. 

Williams said “He was like, ‘Why don’t you just look at the GAGA one [2017’s Gaga: Five Foot Two]? I mean, look how she did it.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, cool.’ And I saw it, and that was one of the things I was most impressed with when I did see it. I was like, ‘Oh, I saw her fingerprints all over this.'”

Williams had two conditions, first one he said “I was like, ‘But I want to do it with Morgan Neville,’ because he had done 20 Feet from Stardom, and he had just done the Mr. Rogers [documentary], which was crazy, And I was like, ‘Man, I can’t believe I get to work with the same guy.’ ” 

The second condition he said I said, ‘But I want to do it in LEGO.’ “

Rather than having his A-list buddies sit around and talk about how much he’s transformed the sound of the music industry, he came up with the idea for an animated documentary in which all of the personalities, including himself, are portrayed by LEGO figures. 

That’s right—customized LEGO figures of Timberlake, Stefani, JAY-Z, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, and other celebrities.

Pharrell then explained his decision by saying “Well, it’s what I always played with when I was young, It’s what I would get for Christmas. And then when [he and wife Helen Lasichanh] had our first [child], Rocket, I would always send him little LEGO sets or whatever, and pick them up from different places around the world.”

“And then right around that time [that he started thinking about the documentary], we had just had the triplets, and I knew that I wanted the triplets to hear and understand my story too. So, it just all made sense. You know what I mean? I wanted it so that they could see Dad tell his story.” He added.

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