Emma Watson talks with fashion writer Harriet Walker in a new article for The Independant.

Emma Watson grew up on screen but as an adult, she’s making her mark in the fashion world. Harriet Walker meets the new face of Lancôme.

“As I’ve got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I’ve felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out,” she smiles, when I suggest she has successfully shaken off the fetters of having played a gawky teenage witch for a decade. “I think there’s this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you’d only wear at night. The nice thing about these is that they’re really translucent, like a tinted lip balm, so you can wear them in a more casual way.”

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The March calendar competition is now open!

• The size of the calendar should be at least 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
• Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and March and it should have the dates. It should be mostly original work, and images used should be respectful of Emma’s privacy.
• The deadline to submit calendars is February 26.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. Please send entries to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com

Variety is reporting that Emma Watson is in final negotiations to star in Beauty, Guillermo del Toro’s vision of the classic tale of ‘The Beauty and the Beast’ for Warner Bros. Rumours of Emma’s involvement began last July when producer Denise Di Novi, who is working on the project with del Toro, said Emma was lined up to star. In August, del Toro confirmed that he would like to direct Emma in Beauty, saying “I think she is the perfect character to do that movie.” del Toro now plans to direct as well as produce the film. Emma has said a few times over the years she would like to work with del Toro.

Beauty is said to be loosely based on the novel Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of the Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley. Warner Bros. has hired Andrew Davies (“Brideshead Revisited”, “The Three Musketeers”, “Bridget Jones’ Diary”) to write the screenplay.

Update: According to Robin McKinley, she knows nothing about all this, other than Warner’s did option her novel in the past. She thinks it unlikely the movie will be made, and if it is, that it will have nothing in common with her novel beyond the Beauty/Beast premise. Perhaps it will be a loose adaption of just the title. Thanks to Jay for bringing this up.

Emma hosted the Lancôme and Emma Watson Pre-BAFTA party yesterday at the ‘Roses By…’ exhibition at The Savoy Hotel, London. She was stunning in a red lace Valentino dress, Christian Louboutin shoes, and a sailor hat?

Thanks to Celebutopia and Superiorpics

Emma Watson introduced the launch of Lancóme’s Rouge in Love line at Selfridges in London earlier today. There was a short Q&A session with Selfridge Buying Director David  Walker-Smith. Emma talked about her love of Lancóme, her beauty routine, and her favorite book. We have a video from the Q&A session (credit: SpotTheCeleb) and some photos.

Here are some great photos by Anthology of Things.

And last, and best, a picture Emma posted to her twitter.

From Lancome France we have two new videos for Emma Watson’s Rouge in Love lipsticks, an official video, and a making-of video where Emma talks about Lancome makeup, how she recently started wearing lipstick, and working with Mario Testino again.

And some new photos to go along with the videos!

Four new photos from the Rouge in Love photoshoot were release by Lancôme France.

Emma Watson is featured in a new TV commercial for Lancôme’s Blanc Expert Derm-Crystal from South Korea. Credit: JYGranger

Emma Launching Rouge in Love at Selfriges
Emma will launch her new collection of lipstick and nail polish at Selfriges London store this Friday, February 10 at 4:30pm in the Beauty Hall. She will introduce the collection and then take part in a Q&A session with Selfrige Buying Director, David Walker-Smith. It is open to the public, but according to Selfriges, Emma will not be signing photos.

Honorable mentions to Rinske, Alireza, Lisa, Charlotte, Willow, Jia and Nina. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you to those who voted.

All the competition entries can be viewed here.

New images from Emma’s Rouge in Love campaign were posted online.

Also Lancôme related, Carla sent in this photo of a display for Emma’s Tresor Midnight Rose campaign, from Valencia, Spain.

Not Lancôme, but a nice surprise, is this new image from the WB photoshoot in 2008. Thanks to Cine Mercado on tumblr.