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- Hey guys.
I'm Nina Dobrev and I'm in New York City
getting ready for Dior's Guggenheim event.
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Very presumptuous, but I'm excited about it.
I am thrilled about it.
I am over the moon.
I am, actually, attending
the Guggenheim event that Dior throws.
I believe this is the sixth or seventh year
that they've had this event at the Guggenheim,
but it is my first time.
It's extra special for me because, as of today,
I've officially partnered with Dior Beauty
and I'm beyond excited to be a new member of the family.
- [Daniel] Yay!
- Yay!
And I have a cool gold eye. (laughs)
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Usually the day of an event,
I'll go for a run and sweat
and then I'll also steam, maybe get a facial,
but you really wanna have a clean canvas
for your makeup artist.
Daniel.
- She's actually really great with Pinterest
and pulling out inspiration
and I feel like that translation's really nice
for a makeup artist or a hairdresser
because you have this clear vision
of what it is that you wanna do
so what we did was we structured out
this really cool gold eye,
but I used surgical tape to really get that straight edge
and then I really focused the gold
because it's a gold liquid.
It's a holiday product from Dior.
I focused it in the center of her eye
and then on the outer edge of her eye
and then in the middle I used my finger
with a bronzier shadow
just to create a bit of depth in low light
especially tonight's dinner,
you're really gonna see all that,
the glitter that picks up--
- The dimension.
To be honest with you, day to day,
I don't wear a lot of makeup.
I like to let my skin breathe
so that it's clear and clean and ready for an event
and it doesn't get too clogged up,
but when I do have to wear it for meetings
or if I have an event that I'm doing my own makeup for
I definitely steal a tip that has Daniel has taught me.
This being one of the biggest, most important ones,
the Beauty Blender.
I wet the Beauty Blender and dip it into the foundation
and Dior's Forever Foundation is amazing.
It really covers, but doesn't look cakey,
and that's really important to me,
like I never want it to look like
I'm wearing too much makeup.
- So for the hair tonight,
we wanted something super sleek, very chic and easy,
so we just went for the center part
to keep it super modern
and then I secured this pieces back
so on the red carpet, super easy,
she doesn't gotta worry about it coming out
or anything happening.
- While I'm getting ready,
I don't really get too stressed.
I listen to music,
sometimes I'll have a cocktail,
unless it's the Oscars, that I've never attended,
I don't really get nervous,
so, I guess, come back to me if I go to the Oscars
and then we'll talk about what I do to de-stress.
I guess I was nervous that night
because the dress is so big and it was so structured
and I was so worried about it wrinkling,
so we had to get a stretch limo
so that I could lay across the car
so that the bottom of the dress wouldn't wrinkle,
and it was really uncomfortable in Los Angeles traffic.
It's a great ab workout, now that I think about it.
I remember had the really long hair,
kind of like my hair is now, it's starting to grow.
I cut it for a role for a film
to about my chin length.
It's been growing like a weed.
I had the French bangs for the character as well.
I really liked it for the role
and I really love transforming for roles,
but at the same time, as a human day to day,
it was probably the most inconvenient
hairstyle that I've ever had,
because I don't really know how to do my hair that well.
I'm more of a makeup girl, not so much a hair girl,
so I usually have
like a great makeup application face in life,
and then my hair will just look like Tarzan or Chewbacca.
I think it's just 'cause I'm spoiled, though.
I think because I've worked
with so many amazing hairstylists,
they kinda do their thing
and I never really needed to learn how to do it.
That's what I'm gonna blame it on, at least.
What do we want, guys?
Can we just do family style?
What if I like order a bunch of things
and we all kinda like pick at everything?
- [Daniel] That's perfect.
- Food is the most important thing and it dictates
almost all of my decisions in life at all times.
I have to eat like every couple of hours.
Before an event, yeah I always have to eat,
because you never know
if the food at the event's gonna be good,
so I always make sure to show up full
and then I'll probably still eat when I get there again.
Okay how do we feel about chicken wings and,
- Chicken fingers.
- chicken fingers, yeah.
Get some chicken fingers and French fries.
I'm getting beef sliders with black truffle dressing.
Mmm, truffles.
Daniel knows that he doesn't usually finish
the bottom of my face until the very, very, very end,
- 'Cause she'll eat.
- 'cause I'll eat and mess it up
and you'll have to do it again, so.
This past Halloween, actually every Halloween,
I kinda, I sorta like Halloween.
Kinda go all out.
I always wanna do something that's kinda
either pop culture relevant or funny
or just like, you know,
I like get to be something silly and never,
I don't often go for the whole sexy Halloween thing.
This past year,
it actually didn't take that long,
actually Billie was pretty easy,
'cause it was just green hairspray
and I took paper towels
and basically just put the paper towel here
and then took a hair clip and then clipped it
and on both sides and I just sprayed down the middle,
waited 'til it dried, and then took it off.
Oh, the only thing that was actually challenging
were the nails.
I bought them from CBS
and they were like stick on acrylic ones
and you just like glue on the inside and you stick it on,
but they were clear so I could paint them green first,
then I waited for that to dry
and then I stick them on,
but you can only like, they're so long,
that it was kinda awkward and hard to do.
Once you stuck it, it stayed stuck,
then if you got glue somewhere else,
it was like part of your body for the next six years.
It was like a whole thing,
but then when I woke up the next morning,
still was Billie Eilish in every capacity,
including the nails.
I had to go to a nail salon
and get them removed professionally--
- [Daniel] Oh no.
- and soak in like this acetone stuff
'cause the glue was so heavy duty.
Brad was a lot easier to do, surprisingly.
Oh actually, one thing was hard about,
I had to A) find a dog
'cause I don't have a pit bull
and that dog in the movie is so iconic,
so I ended up going to Zoey Dech's house
and borrowing little Mable,
and the beard, I had a really hard time
like getting that perfect five o'clock shadow
with Mr. Bradley.
So these little spiky things, I would dip it in the cream
and then I went (tongue clicking).
- [Daniel] Oh, ouch.
- Yeah, it kinda hurt a little bit,
- [Daniel] But it worked.
- but it worked.
I look like this.
Oh, yeah, come on in.
Yay.
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Oh my god.
This is heaven.
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I'm excited to get to go to the Guggenheim
and have this intimate experience in such an iconic place.
Tonight we'll be able to actually roam around
and look at the artwork and check out the exhibition.
That's what I'm probably mostly looking forward to,
and just celebrating,
and I've been a friend of the brand for such a long time
and it's really nice to officially kinda join the team
and celebrate that.
It's been a dream of mine since I was a little girl
to work Dior and my family,
part of my family lives in France,
so Dior is such a staple and such a iconic sort of elegant
brand and it's just what I've always imagined is the
most chic endgame that you can possibly have,
so it's exciting to be,
be in good company.
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All right.
This is the final look, you guys.
Thanks so much for hanging out with me.
I'm off to the event, so see you guys later.
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