Olivia Rodrigo simply lower her signature waist-skimming waves. “I really feel like a model new woman,” she tells me over the cellphone. “I had actually lengthy hair whereas on tour and it was onerous to maintain. I wished to shed the lifeless ends so I chopped them off. It is time for brand spanking new beginnings.”
The chop (which the mega-star follows up with “it’s not a bob!”) is not simply symbolic of a recent begin music-wise—liberating herself from the feelings tied to a 60-city, 20-country world tour!—but additionally completely timed with at this time’s information: Rodrigo is formally the worldwide model ambassador of French make-up and skincare model Lancôme.
“I keep in mind rifling by my mother’s make-up bag and seeing Lancôme skincare in there,” the 21-year-old says. “The serum was one of many first issues I placed on my face, earlier than I actually was doing skincare.” Nowadays, she’s keen on L’Absolue Rouge Cream in shade Caprice de Rouge—a barely deep, firey crimson—and Idôle Liquid Eyeliner to get the signature look she rocked all through her Guts Tour. She’s sporting each of those merchandise, plus the Teint Idôle Extremely Put on Basis in shade 345N, for the brand new marketing campaign dropping at this time. “I do know it is bizarre, however I am actually excited to take an image of the marketing campaign within the airport. Will probably be such a wild second.”
It is solely been three years since Rodrigo’s first (of many) hits “Drivers License” captivated the world, and within the time since she’s launched two studio albums, received three Grammys, and been named Time’s “Entertainer of the 12 months,” simply to begin. The morning we discuss, it is the day after she’s walked the crimson carpet for Netflix’s Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour Los Angeles. All through all of it, she’s working onerous to remain grounded.
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