Just after winning the gold medal in the ladies’s artistic all-around on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, first individual bronze for her floor exercises – gymnast Jordan ChilesThe race to the highest didn’t end (or begin) on the rostrum. From the French Team USA suggestions she competed in to her glittering makeup moment on the parallel bars, the medalist also played a job in what the media dubbed “Beauty Olympics“which, based on her fans, earned her one other gold.

Leading as much as the Games, constructing a skincare routine that focused on her skin was at the highest of her busy training schedule. “When I’m in the gym and I’m really working hard for hours a day, I try to keep my makeup routine light and easy,” Chiles tells ESSENCE. “This year, before I went to Paris, I really focused on my skincare routine.” In a recent Fashion video, you may see how the gymnast uses Fenty Skin Total Cleanser to assist her cope with oily skin before applying Vitamin C Serum Bliss Bright Idea.

With a serum designed to scale back hyperpigmentation, the Afro-Latina Olympian explains her troubled history with the skin problem. According to the NIH, lively melanin combined with inflammation – often brought on by pimples – can result in discoloration and scarring which disproportionately affects darker skin tones. Regardless of her gravity-defying gymnastics feats, using skin-first products in her routine was a must before the Olympics. “I knew I was going to be on TV and I wanted to look and feel my best,” Chiles says.

Then she entered the Olympic Village. “If I’m competing or if one of my girls from Team USA is competing, I do a full glam look,” she says. A step up from her no-makeup, mascara, and brow gel routine during training, Chiles added stylish white and black eyeliner, concealer, and dark red lipstick to compete. “It took me a while to really love my beauty, love my skin, and love my makeup,” she says. “Over the years of competing and realizing how much fun it is to play with my makeup, I can’t live without my full glam days now.”

As an unmissable detail of her glam look, “nails have become such a fun thing that me and my teammates do,” she says. “For the most part, we all have our nails done in fun patterns, colors, and yes, sometimes we have long nails,” she says when fans ask how she rocks the extensions. While three-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and two-time bronze medalist Suni Lee showed off their white oval French suggestions on the games, Chiles stamped hers in patriotic colours with a textured tip. “Before a big competition, especially the Olympics, I like to have a fresh set and bring out my personality on my nails.”

Now, fresh off her first Olympic victory, she celebrates her success by turning to her recovery. “I treasure being a part of this moment with every brand I’ve worked with because they’ve helped me deepen my understanding of beauty,” she says, working with World of Bliss for this yr’s games. “Right now, [that means] making sure to take care of yourself physically, emotionally and mentally.”