Crazy-beautiful, oscar-winning (and soon to wed insanely hot Unfaithful Frenchie Oliver Martinez) Revlon spokeswoman Hallie Berry has many talents, least of which is looking essentially perfect no matter where she goes or what she's doing. Turns out the star is also really interesting, and down to earth, too. She sat down with Dana Oliver of Stylelist to talk short hair, being pretty and her dreams for her daughter.
On her quickie makeup routine:
Face powder, as I’m a shiny mess, and a lip. I have a bad habit of chewing my lips and without something on there, I just chew them off. I need some sort of moisture there, whether it be a lip balm or lip color. I've been wearing Just Bitten in Honey. It's the perfect, creamy nude.
On finding the right foundation for her skin:
There used to be only certain brands that had our colors. Everyone would say, “Oh,Iman has the best colors for our type of skin. Or Fashion Fair." Now some of the better brands have such a large color palette that most women can find something -- from Asian to black to Spanish to Indian to white women. We’re evolving and realizing that women come in all shades. Luckily, I work with Revlon and have colors formulated to match.
On beauty and good genes:
I think skin is really genetic. My dad has great, great beautiful skin. I think there are things that we can do to make good and bad skin better. But I think the real quality, texture and luminosity of skin is genetics. And you can affect it by what you eat, drink or whether you smoke or do drugs. I use a line called Kinara created by Olga Northrup. She has a spa that’s really close to my house and I’ve used her products for about 15 years.
On what she sees as when she thinks of beauty:
When I think of beauty, I think of people like Tina Turner who was always beautiful but has gotten more beautiful as she’s gotten older. And part of that comes with maturity, wisdom and being comfortable in your skin. She hasn’t become a victim of plastic surgery where she starts to look like somebody else. Audrey Hepburn aged really beautifully, too. Women that have the confidence to try to recapture their youth in a way that somehow makes them not look like who they are, I look to those people that age like that and hope that I follow in their footsteps.
On that famed pixie cut:
I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confident. I’ve had long hair until I was about 18 or 19, when I first started acting. I would go to auditions and see every other girl in the room with long, curly hair -- whether it be natural or weaved in. I remember thinking this isn’t working for me. I have to somehow be different from these girls, so I cut all my hair off. I went to my manager’s office and he almost had a heart attack. He said, "You’re never going to work. You are no longer commercial." And I said, "That’s exactly it. I look like every other girl and they’re never going to notice me." Two weeks after I did that, I got my first acting job. It was “Living Dolls” on ABC. They even said I was different. And it felt like me.
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