Beyonce graces the cover of Allure‘s February 2010 issue, and I do mean graces. I love this cover shot; it’s sexy and fierce, and I’m digging the unconventional pose. (The Cesar Paciotti booties, I’m not so sure about… they kind of freak me out!) Her photoshoot is really stunning, but what else would you expect from someone as gorgeous as Beyonce? I sound like I’ve got a huge crush on her, don’t I? Honestly, I just love to look at her. Wow. Could I objectify the poor girl any more? I’m gonna shut up now and give you some interview highlights.
And oh, P.S. … Allure posted some photos of Beyonce from their August 2002 issue. They’re the ones with her hair looking natural. They’re awesome, so I included them here too.
On how her mother inspired Beyonce’s new scent, Heat:
“I grew up with my mother walking past, and you could smell the faint scent of her fragrance—it always gave me this sense of comfort. I just thought it was so beautiful that she would walk by and leave her scent.”
On hair styles she’d probably rather forget:
“I remember when I started doing my hair myself—I cut bangs, and I started curling my hair and pressing it, literally, with an iron. The girls from Destiny’s Child, we would put our hair on the ironing board, and iron it, which is so crazy! My mom [who used to own a hair salon] was like, ‘We have to get you out of your own hair, because you are destroying it!’”
On making a baby with husband Jay-Z:
“I definitely want to have a child. But I know from my nephew it’s a lot. I hope that those things will just happen naturally. I still haven’t had time to relax.”
On empowering women through her music:
“Probably the best songs I write are about relationships, and flipping the roles between women and men, and things that women go through. Growing up in a female group and in a hair salon, I have always been passionate about women. I just think we need each other, and the things that inspire me to write songs are things that I think women need to hear. I’m happy to be a voice, one of the many. I’m happy to be, in some way, a role model.”
Photo Source: Allure, Hip Hop Crunch
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