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"  Let the rest of the world obsess about her every move, follicular and otherwise\u2014Julia Roberts has remained resolutely easygoing about such details. &amp;quot;The first time I cut my hair off\u2014just chopped it to the nape of my neck\u2014I got a lot of women my mom&amp;#039;s age in grocery stores giving me that gentle touch on the arm, saying, `Aww, it&amp;#039;ll grow back!&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; Roberts says. &amp;quot;I thought, What? I look so cool! Are you kidding?&amp;quot;  Still, becoming the &amp;quot;Global Ambassadress&amp;quot; (i.e., glamour-puss pitchwoman) of Lanc\u00F4me would turn any soap-and-water girl into a tip-swapping product aficionado. &amp;quot;My one favorite piece of makeup used to be ChapStick\u2014now it&amp;#039;s a Juicy Tube,&amp;quot; Roberts says. And after years of warring with her famous mane\u2014it was &amp;quot;somewhere between straight and curly; really just an awful purgatory that no one should suffer&amp;quot;\u2014she&amp;#039;s finally mastered a decent DIY blow-out, though she insists the technique is &amp;quot;unshareably silly.&amp;quot; Of course, as the nexus of a Hollywood glam squad that includes her &amp;quot;best friend&amp;quot; and hairstylist, Serge Normant, and Genevieve Herr, her makeup artist since 1995, Roberts can afford to be nonchalant about hair and makeup trickery. &amp;quot;I just leave it all to them,&amp;quot; she says.  Luckily, Cuban-born, New York\u2013based Herr knows all of Roberts&amp;#039; red-carpet secrets\u2014and happily submitted to ELLE questioning on the subject. &amp;quot;Julia loves to be made up,&amp;quot; Herr says, &amp;quot;but she always likes to look like herself.&amp;quot;   Genevieve, how do you keep things interesting while still staying within Julia&amp;#039;s natural-beauty comfort zone?  I love to play with different shades of eyeliner pencils, using a darker color on the top lid and lighter on the bottom. Say, coppery brown on top with gold on the bottom, or gray above, silver below. It enhances eye color, adds dimension\u2014and it&amp;#039;s just more fun than neutrals. Julia lets me experiment; when she went to this year&amp;#039;s Golden Globes, we did a dramatic, smoky purple-and-black combo, with shimmery amethyst shadow on the lid and inner corner.   What&amp;#039;s the secret to a neutral lip that stays put? Even for a pale mouth, lip pencil is a must. It defines the lips, corrects their shape, prevents lipstick from bleeding and makes the color last. For Julia, I often do a soft, matte, beigey-pink lip that goes with everything. Choose a pencil shade similar to your natural lip color and never darker than your lipstick. Using a brush or your ring finger, blend the line inward so there&amp;#039;s no line of demarcation. Lightly powder outside the lip, apply your lipstick, and, for fullness, add a touch of gloss in the center of the lip.   It seems every woman wants to master the sexy, smoky eye.  For a defined, dramatic look, use black kohl liner\u2014which smudges easily\u2014to line the tops and bottoms of the eyes; whether or not the top liner should meet the bottom in the corners is a matter of eye shape. So for close-set eyes, bring the lines together at the eyes&amp;#039; outer corners. For wide-set, do the opposite: Close the inner corners, not the outer. For bigger eyes, like Julia&amp;#039;s, I close both ends. Smudge the liner into the lash line and extend it a bit at the outer corners, but keep the smoky black hue close to the eyes.   How can everybody stay as ageless as Julia? Keeping up with new products can help\u2014don&amp;#039;t get stuck in an old makeup routine. Also, after 40, most women should avoid frosted or overly shimmery colors.  An anti-aging must? Blush is so important; without it, you look washed out. Cream formulas melt into skin beautifully; apply them with your fingers, right after foundation\u2014smile, dab color onto the apples, and blend around the edges. Set it with a light touch of translucent powder all over the face and you&amp;#039;re ready to glow.   Click here for Genevieve Herr&amp;#039;s 5 must-have products &amp;amp;gt;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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