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"  Kate Bosworth has been in the public eye since she played a tanned and toned surfer in Blue Crush. But these days, we hear from the actress through her surprisingly open Twitter feed, Topshop collaborations (Michael Polish, her future husband, directed her in a sweet holiday film singing &amp;quot;Winter Wonderland&amp;quot; for the British fashion brand), and street style photos featuring her clean, minimal style (few people look so good in Calvin Klein). We spoke to her recently about her latest roles and beauty secrets. On her skincare routine\u2026  &amp;quot;I was in the midst of the press tour and my skin was taking quite a beating. A makeup artist introduced me to SK-II, which has some great products, particularly the SK-II paper mask. I travel with them everywhere I go. It&amp;#039;s important to feel out what your skin needs. I&amp;#039;ll use the cleanser and the Facial Treatment Essence. I feel like because it&amp;#039;s got the highest level of pitera, it will balance your skin. (Editor&amp;#039;s note: pitera is SK-II&amp;#039;s signature ingredient, which is derived from sake.) You use your hands rather than a cotton swab so I always put some extra on the backs of my hands as well. If I&amp;#039;m feeling like my skin is more dry, I will go for a richer cream like Essential Power Cream. But if it&amp;#039;s more humid, I&amp;#039;ll use Cellumination Essence EX. I really loved the pitera story, that a scientist saw that the hands of the workers in a sake factory looked young and their faces looked old, and put two and two together.&amp;quot; On makeup essentials\u2026 &amp;quot;I do like a lip because I feel like when I wear eye makeup, it falls more easily. I am incredibly envious of women whose eye makeup stays intact. And I do love a clean kind of look, and a bright lip to add that final cherry. I tend to carry tints, only because I&amp;#039;ll use it on my cheeks, too. The NARS Multiples are nice, and YSL Glossy Stains are really good. Anything you can manipulate.&amp;quot; On her early bronzed days\u2026 &amp;quot;Now I&amp;#039;m always the one ducking out of the sun. If I get my face in the sun at all, it will start getting pigment. I love it, and I love being active, but I have to be more aware of it now. As a kid, I mean, oh my gosh, we would just slather ourselves with baby oil. I didn&amp;#039;t wear that much sunscreen in Blue Crush. I was 18 and I was just so involved in the character, whether it was changing my body type or bleaching my ends so they were just fried. I got to know the surf women so well. They&amp;#039;re athletes. The only thing I can compare it to is competitive horse jumpers (Editor&amp;#039;s note: Kate used to ride competitively). Your mind is so set on the game, and you&amp;#039;re not thinking about your physicality so much unless you&amp;#039;re using it as a tool. When you surf, you form calluses on your hips, there&amp;#039;s a thickening of your skin. Everything changes physically and, subsequently, mentally.&amp;quot; And her latest role\u2026  &amp;quot;I would do anything extreme, really, if the character demanded it. The last role I played (Editor&amp;#039;s note: in the film Homefront with James Franco), she&amp;#039;s a methadone addict so it was more about making me look unhealthy and embracing that end of the spectrum to translate to something authentic. To inhabit the unhealthy mindset of a physical being is something that wears on you after a while. It&amp;#039;s just a bit depressing. I have a 15-year-old step-daughter now, and she came to visit Michael and me on the set. She was disturbed by the character. I want her to understand that if you abuse yourself, the outcome is not healthy and it&amp;#039;s not glamorous. Whether it&amp;#039;s an ugly truth or a beautiful truth, it&amp;#039;s important to connect to something truthful.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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