Natalie Portman On How The Expectations Towards Makeup Have Changed!

Having been in front of the cameras since she was a pre-teen and an ambassador for Dior Beauty since 2010, Natalie Portman surely knows more than a thing or two about putting one's best face forward - and maintaining it effortlessly. Recently, the 41-year-old was revealed as the campaign star of the French maison's latest lippie innovation: Rouge Dior Forever, which promises comfort, a clean formula and a cool 16 hours of no-transfer wear, all in a bullet. In an exclusive interview, the Thor star shares with Khong Yawen about how the expectations towards makeup have changed, and her beauty axioms that will never.

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Between the time Natalie Portman last fronted a lipstick campaign (the major relaunch of Rouge Dior in January 2021) and our Zoom interview with her this May, a considerable lot has happened. Most significantly, she had shot her brawned-up, much-buzzed-about return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Jane Foster-turned-Mighty Thor in Thor: Love And Thunder, with its big release to hit just two months after our e-encounter. Along the way, she starred in several non-lippie campaigns for Dior Beauty (among them, the update of the Dior Forever liquid foundation; the debut of the Skin Glow Cushion and Couture Luminizer compacts from the same family; and the reveal of the Miss Dior EDP). What also took place: Much of the world adjusted to living with Covid, gradually loosening regulations and safety measures. Are masks optional indoors? You heard right.

Naturally, the lipstick that the silver screen sensation would next front would should not be like any others that had come before. "The pandemic really made me understand how much wearing makeup has to do with being social," she said during our video call. "It's so exciting now to go see and spend time with people, and presenting oneself to the world has so much to do with why we choose to put on makeup... It's an expression of our individuality."