List's first memory with beauty is in the hair and makeup chair on set with Disney when she was 12. Before that, she never wore makeup. She distinctly remembers the hair and makeup pros getting her camera-ready and using an airbrush makeup applicator. "I looked in the mirror, [and] I didn't even recognize myself. I was like, 'Wow, I look so beautiful,'" List said. "I just remember wearing a lot of makeup on set and feeling really beautiful, and then feeling like a different girl on my off days."
That was the first time List really felt like she was playing a character. "It was interesting, having to separate that, while I'm finding myself, but also playing this other person," she said. "Like, who am I? And what is my relationship with beauty and makeup? But then, I started discovering, 'Oh, this is really cool.' [Beauty] is a very cool way to express myself."
