Nina Dobrev is known for her beautiful eyes and playful beauty style, so it’s only natural that she would mix the two together and sign on to become the spokesperson for Air Optix Colors, a new line of color contacts. We caught up with Nina and her stylist, Ilaria Urbinati, at a preview of the new line of contacts in NYC to chat new Summer beauty trends, Nina’s ombré hair, and what big hairstyle change she is planning on making once she wraps up The Vampire Diaries for good. (Hint: it involves a big hair trend!)
POPSUGAR: You have such beautiful eyes. How do you play that up with your makeup?
Nina Dobrev: This is the first time that I’m wearing colored contacts just for fun, as opposed to for a role or a film. The science behind [colored contacts] now is incredible. They used to be so thick, uncomfortable, and ugly — well, not ugly . . . no they really were [laughs]. They [looked] fake, and I like to look natural and subtle.
Look, I like my eyes, I like my face, I like what I was born with — it’s not that I want to change that, but at the same time, I wear mascara. It’s about enhancing my own features. This is why I love the Air Optix Colors and why I signed on to do this — I really believe in the brand. And in our case, for fashion, it helps with red carpets.
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Nina Dobrev On Why She's 'The Female Version Of George Clooney' And Her Favorite Red Carpet Looks Ever
Nina Dobrev is perhaps best known for her role as Elena on CW’s The Vampire Diaries, as a recently-turned vampire caught in a love triangle with the seriously attractive Salvatore brothers (played by Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley). Over the course of the show she battles “The Originals,” her doppelgänger arch enemy Katherine (also played by Dobrev!) and copes with high school and college—all while looking extremely stylish.
The 25-year-old starlet was all smiles when I sat down to chat with her and her stylist, Ilaria Urbinati, at an event for the new Air Optix Colors contact lenses. Sporting a printed Markus Lupfer dress and a tomboyish hat atop her newly-ombréd curls, her downtime style, it seems, is a little less glamour girl and little more high-low. Over the course of the interview, we covered her craziest beauty look and her recent obsession with spa music (yes, really). Read on for the full interview, and click through the slideshow above for Dobrev and Urbinati’s favorite red carpet looks ever!
