Olivia Rodrigo simply minimize her signature waist-skimming waves. “I really feel like a model new lady,” she tells me over the telephone. “I had actually lengthy hair whereas on tour and it was arduous to handle. I wished to shed the lifeless ends so I chopped them off. It is time for brand new beginnings.”
The chop (which the mega-star follows up with “it’s not a bob!”) is not simply symbolic of a contemporary begin music-wise—liberating herself from the feelings tied to a 60-city, 20-country world tour!—but additionally completely timed with in the present day’s information: Rodrigo is formally the worldwide model ambassador of French make-up and skincare model Lancôme.
“I bear in mind rifling by my mother’s make-up bag and seeing Lancôme skincare in there,” the 21-year-old says. “The serum was one of many first issues I placed on my face, earlier than I actually was doing skincare.” Lately, she’s a fan of L’Absolue Rouge Cream in shade Caprice de Rouge—a barely deep, firey purple—and Idôle Liquid Eyeliner to get the signature look she rocked all through her Guts Tour. She’s carrying each of those merchandise, plus the Teint Idôle Extremely Put on Basis in shade 345N, for the brand new marketing campaign dropping in the present day. “I do know it is bizarre, however I am actually excited to take an image of the marketing campaign within the airport. It is going to be such a wild second.”
It is solely been three years since Rodrigo’s first (of many) hits “Drivers License” captivated the world, and within the time since she’s launched two studio albums, gained three Grammys, and been named Time’s “Entertainer of the 12 months,” simply to start out. The morning we discuss, it is the day after she’s walked the purple carpet for Netflix’s Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour Los Angeles. All through all of it, she’s working arduous to remain grounded.