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"  Natalie Bergman, shot at Governor&amp;#039;s Ball by Tyler Joe. With her lullaby-ready voice and flaxen hair, Wild Belle singer Natalie Bergman has become a poster girl for the Electric Folk movement spawned by The Black Keys, Lissie, and Edward Sharpe. She&amp;#039;s also emerging as a style star, making frequent appearances at Fashion Week front rows and parties for cult labels like Maje and Mara Hoffman. (Having fans like Alexa Chung and Lindsay Wixson doesn&amp;#039;t hurt, either.) We caught Bergman backstage at Governor&amp;#039;s Ball to discuss DIY hair hacks, Instagram wardrobe staples, and whether vintage finds come with magical powers. (Spoiler alert: Obviously.)  You&amp;#039;re performing in outdoor festivals all summer, but you still need to look camera-ready. What&amp;#039;s the biggest challenge when dressing for a daytime show? Like a lot of things in life, I think the biggest challenge is acceptance. Guess what? It&amp;#039;s hot outside. I&amp;#039;m in a rock band. I&amp;#039;m going to get messy. I&amp;#039;m going to get a little sweaty. I&amp;#039;m going to have tangled hair and dirty jeans when I get off stage, but it feels good, because it means I&amp;#039;ve lived in those clothes and I&amp;#039;ve really performed in those clothes and given it all I&amp;#039;ve got. So the first thing with summer fashion, for me, is making sure it&amp;#039;s not perfect, making sure it actually looks better in the flaws. What about makeup?  Keep it simple! I&amp;#039;m pretty natural with makeup anyway, but a summer music festival\u2014or anything outdoors in summer\u2014is not really the time to try out a crazy makeup look, you know? Because stuff melts and smears, and it doesn&amp;#039;t feel good to have a lot of products on your face when it&amp;#039;s hot and you&amp;#039;re outside. So sometimes all I&amp;#039;ll really wear is that Maybelline Great Lash Mascara\u2014you know, the kind in the green and pink tube? The waterproof one works really well and it&amp;#039;s definitely my favorite.  Your hair has its own fan pages on Tumblr. What&amp;#039;s your secret? Do I sound like a jerk saying, &amp;quot;Thanks, but I don&amp;#039;t really do anything to it?&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t mean to be an asshole, I&amp;#039;m sorry, but literally, I just leave it alone. I let my friend bleach my hair for me, and it hasn&amp;#039;t been growing as fast as it usually does\u2014it usually grows really fast\u2014so I don&amp;#039;t even have to trim it as much anymore\u2026 and my haircuts, I mean, I know how to do that at home in the bathroom\u2026 And sometimes I just cut it myself! My mom used to do it for me, ever since I was little. So I guess the secret is to leave it alone as much as you can\u2026 And I don&amp;#039;t like hairspray. I don&amp;#039;t like anything sticky. Let it be free.  Natalie Bergman, shot at Governor&amp;#039;s Ball by Tyler Joe. Do designers give you a lot of your stage clothes? My stage clothes are mostly from flea markets and antique malls. We travel so much because we&amp;#039;re always touring, so I like finding things from all the places we&amp;#039;ve been. I like to collect cool accessories, like African jewelry and old bell bottoms.Today I&amp;#039;m wearing a vintage white blouse I got at a flea market and then some jeans that I&amp;#039;ve ripped up a little. You rip your own jeans? I mean, it&amp;#039;s easier to do that than [buy them], I think. Because you know where the rips should go. I just use a pair of scissors and go for it. And I&amp;#039;m wearing lots of turquoise\u2014all summer, that&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;m buying everywhere and piling on. I bought a vintage turquoise necklace at the Denver Flea Market when we were in Colorado, and I totally got a steal. And I think there&amp;#039;s something about turquoise that brings good energy and positivity and good vibes, because I love this necklace and I feel like when I wear it we always have a great show. I think turquoise is magical. You went to Berklee School of Music and compose Wild Belle&amp;#039;s songs yourself. Do you like talking about fashion, or do you think it&amp;#039;s a distraction from good music? No, not at all! Actually, I&amp;#039;ll be honest, I&amp;#039;m very conscious about my image onstage because it&amp;#039;s the band&amp;#039;s image, and it&amp;#039;s important. And I&amp;#039;m into fashion, because I think music and aesthetics are one, and when you&amp;#039;re onstage they work as this united thing. So of course I pay attention to all things musical when it comes to Wild Belle, but also, I pay attention to all things physical. Do you have better dressed fans than other acts on tour? [Laughing] Of course! Our fans have good clothes and good vibes. They are more magical. Must be the turquoise. I&amp;#039;m telling you, that stuff makes a difference! You should stock up the next time you go to Denver. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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