It helps that Longoria additionally has a dressmaker pal on pace dial to seek the advice of with at any time when she has any doubts. She confirmed that her good pal Victoria Beckham “at all times” has to chime in on her search for large occasions like this. “I undoubtedly needed to present her the Oscar costume, she needed to weigh in for certain,” she mentioned. And the previous Spice Lady’s recommendation? “Easy,” the actor revealed. “She actually taught me about easy jewellery. I was like a Christmas tree with the earrings and the necklace and the bracelet. I used to be like, extra jewellery! She was the one that actually taught me, no. Like, no earrings, no necklace, simply do a bracelet. And I’m like, ‘What?! Are you certain?’ I wish to seem like a Christmas tree, I wish to put on all of it.”
Eva Longoria preparing on the Loews Lodge in Hollywood. Photograph by Carlos Eric Lopez.
And whereas she went for simplicity and luxury in her apparel this 12 months, Longoria revealed that the method of getting her hair and make-up prepared for the ceremony “is far more intricate than the robe.” Along with all of the pores and skin prep that has to occur earlier than make-up may even be utilized, she defined that she additionally has “a full head of grey hair, so it is all in regards to the timing of coloring my grays. I at all times use my L’Oreal Excellence Creme hair shade as a result of it covers 100% of my grays…It’s robust in its protection, but it surely additionally makes your hair tremendous beautiful and there’s pro-keratin complicated that makes it shiny.” Earlier than she heads out the door, Longoria additionally likes to finish her outfit by including the of completion of fragrance. “It’s the very last thing I wish to placed on,” she defined. “I put it in my hair, I put it in all places.”
Photograph by Carlos Eric Lopez.
Whilst you would possibly suppose that a majority of these glamorous award exhibits are all outdated hat for Longoria at this level in her profession, the actor—who simply made her directorial debut along with her movie Flamin’ Scorching at SXSW—confessed that a majority of these issues by no means get any simpler. “I get anxiousness each time I’ve to go on a crimson carpet,” she confessed, worrying about every little thing from saying the fallacious factor to tripping over her personal toes. Nevertheless, she added, “The enjoyable half is you get to see all of your colleagues. So, you must strategy it in that approach, that it’s like a Sunday barbecue. Simply on a crimson carpet with robes. It is a fancy workplace get together.”
