Teresa Giudice does not “love, love, love” two specific looks from her early days on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
In an exclusive interview with Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea, the reality TV icon, 52 — who recently launched a line of lipsticks, lip glosses and lip liners with Christian Audette — admits that she regrets some of her past sartorial choices.
“When I wore that purple dress with my three daughters when they were all in purple and [I had a] headband in my hair,” she says of a violet satin number she wore to a “RHONJ” Season 2 screening party with her kids and now-ex-husband Joe Giudice.
Teresa stands behind color-coordinating with daughters Gia, Gabriella and Milania, but she finds her accompanying hairdo — which was styled by a pal with whom she still keeps in touch — indefensible.
“I’m still friends with her. I went to high school with her. I’m like, ‘What were you thinking when you did my hair like that?’” the Bravolebrity says with a laugh. “She’s like, ‘I don’t know!’ The other day I said to her, I’m like, ‘What were you thinking?’”
Teresa says that she is learning to “embrace” such faux pas as nostalgic fans still appreciate her fearless approach to fashion from more than a decade ago.
Still, the “Turning the Tables” author also can’t get over the memorable feathered getup she donned for a confessional in 2012’s “RHONJ” Season 4.
“Remember one of my interview looks had feathers [on my shoulders]? … I was trying to do my hair. I didn’t like it and I was like, ‘Just leave it like that,’” she says, recalling her highly teased coif. “And now if you look at it, it’s like, ‘Oh my God!’”
Teresa notes that her taste has evolved throughout her time in the spotlight, both in style and beauty. But she’s always had a penchant for a lip color that pops.
“I used to go around carrying, like, three or four makeup cases with me in my bag and it would be so heavy — even on vacation — and [my husband] Louie [Ruelas] would be like, ‘What are you doing? Why are you bringing so many lipsticks?’” she explains.
“So I was like, ‘You know what? This is why I need to have my own lipstick line.’”
The “Dancing With the Stars” alum launched the Teresa Giudice Collection in collaboration with Christian Audette founder Sweety Audette. Currently, the line features three lipsticks — red “Beso,” pinky nude “I Do” and a brown nude “365” ($29 each) — a shimmery “Love Bomb” lip gloss ($27) and two liners: pink “Paradise” and brown “Woode” ($25 each).
“This is all I wear,” Teresa says of the range.
The burgeoning cosmetics mogul is particularly proud of creating a red lipstick that she feels is flattering for everyone.
“I love that red lipstick. Before that [one], I could never find a red lipstick that I liked. I’ve worn red on the show and I didn’t love it. So I’m like, ‘I need to find the perfect red,’” she details. “You know what’s great about these colors is that they go with all skin tones and everyone loves them.”
Meanwhile, Audette tells Virtual Reali-Tea that working alongside Teresa to expand her cruelty-free and vegan brand was “so much fun” as the latter was “very involved” in the process.
“We literally had created about 16 red shades. She kept putting it on and wiping it off, trying to figure it out because we wanted to create something that would suit every single skin tone as well as every age, too, from Gen Z to mature skin,” she shares.
“Working with Teresa with tremendous and she knows her style and she knows what she wants, so it was very, very easy to work with her and figure out what we wanted to do.”
