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"    Photo: Getty Images   During fashion week, there wasn&amp;#039;t a lot that could pull us out of the trenches of shows. Yet when Olivia Wilde called to meet up, how could we deny her? &amp;quot;I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning,&amp;quot; said the actress, who has also been a Revlon ambassador since 2012. &amp;quot;I mean, I haven&amp;#039;t even had my coffee yet!&amp;quot; ELLE.com sat down with Wilde to discuss the launch of Revlon&amp;#039;s new at-home hair color, as well as her favorite products, worst beauty disasters, and the one thing she can&amp;#039;t leave the house without. ELLE: You&amp;#039;ve been with Revlon for a while now, how did you get involved with the hair color? Olivia Wilde: It is the kind of relationship that is organically growing as the brand and I get to know each other.   We&amp;#039;ve been able to try so many different things. I&amp;#039;m someone that really likes to play with my hair and take risks, and I think they noticed that. ELLE: How do you feel about representing that realm? Were you nervous to be attached to at-home hair color? OW: I was excited! I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression. I used to experiment all the time with my hair color. I&amp;#039;m all for making it affordable and accessible, and the new hair color is ammonia-free\u2014that&amp;#039;s a big deal! It&amp;#039;s all butters instead of oils. It&amp;#039;s better for you than a lot of others! ELLE: How did you experiment with your hair when you were younger? Did you have any disasters? OW: Oh my, did I ever! I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair. ELLE: What other ways did you change up your hair?  OW: I dyed mine with Manic Panic all the time when I was younger. I went through their entire line when I was 12 and 13. My parents didn&amp;#039;t really let me do that, but they didn&amp;#039;t stop me, either. My favorite hair color is what I have right now. It&amp;#039;s very natural. In the end, we all go back to our natural look, don&amp;#039;t you think? ELLE: Of course. Do you think the natural look is coming back? OW: I do, but I also like shaking things up. I love going unnatural with a bold eye to go out. I have fun with makeup. I use a lot of Revlon, of course. I can&amp;#039;t live without their foundations, because they all have SPF in them, and I love their gel pot eyeliners. Their lip crayons stay really well, too. Oh, and I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won&amp;#039;t leave my house without my brows! My other beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off. ELLE: Who didn&amp;#039;t try and look like her at one point?  OW: Right? My fianc\u00E9 recently saw me putting my eyebrows on and was like &amp;quot;Why do you do that?&amp;quot; I told him he wasn&amp;#039;t allowed to see me with my real eyebrows. Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn&amp;#039;t it? ELLE: Yes, we&amp;#039;ve seen a lot of makeup artists skipping mascara on the runways this season. OW: No! I would never. Never ever. ELLE: What skincare do you use?  OW: I&amp;#039;m strict about clean skin. I just want to face plant into my pillow every night, but I know that if I stick to at least cleaning it and keep a simple regimen, it&amp;#039;ll be okay. I exfoliate once a week with Kate Somerville ExfoliKate. I love her salon in L.A. ELLE: Who inspires you? OW: Jane Birkin! I cut my hair like hers last year. For hair, it was her, Fran\u00E7oise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot. I think in general, I always wanted Christy Turlington&amp;#039;s perfect face. She&amp;#039;s just perfect. I mean, Kate Moss, too. Now, I love Alexa [Chung], she&amp;#039;s adorable! She experiments but she always looks fantastic. She&amp;#039;s my girl of the moment, I think. ELLE: Her wardrobe makes us jealous. Speaking of, which designers do you love? OW: Rag &amp;amp;amp; Bone, Isabel Marant, and A.L.C. Those are my everyday go-tos. If I want to be really fashion-y, I go for Alexander McQueen.  ELLE: Is that what you&amp;#039;re wearing right now? [Wilde wears a form-fitting black leather dress with nude lace sleeves.]  OW: No, this is Talbot Runhof. It fits perfectly! I shake it up a lot. I love how simple and timeless Calvin Klein is. Or how architectural McQueen is. I love finding new people. I&amp;#039;m not a fashionista, really. I guess I&amp;#039;m a student of fashion. It&amp;#039;s fun! ELLE: Do you have any beauty secrets? Like, Lily Aldridge told us she does her hair at night and then sleeps in it. OW: First of all, how beautiful is she? That is genius. I need a good answer for this. I love Bumble and bumble Brilliantine, that&amp;#039;s kind of my secret weapon. ELLE: That smells like perfume.  OW: That&amp;#039;s my favorite stuff! I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I&amp;#039;m convinced that it comes from within. If you&amp;#039;re happy and healthy, it shows. Cleanses and products don&amp;#039;t make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you&amp;#039;re set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn&amp;#039;t figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it&amp;#039;s because I&amp;#039;m happy! ELLE: How important is it for you to be involved in the products you promote? OW: Right now, it&amp;#039;s very easy. They show me products, and I give them feedback. I love going to the [Revlon] headquarters. I&amp;#039;m not at the point where I can ask for a specific product yet. I can&amp;#039;t wait to get there, though. I&amp;#039;m all about ease, so that&amp;#039;s what most of my feedback is. I like how Gucci [Westman, Revlon&amp;#039;s global artistic director] made so many products that are easy to use and multi-functional. ELLE: Gucci Westman is amazing! OW: I love her, too\u2014she&amp;#039;s a good friend. I&amp;#039;ve worked with her on a bunch of different things. She just has such a great perspective. She is so natural, but she loves to play. She adds freckles, which makes foundation look less intense. Keep up to date with the latest beauty news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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