OnlyOnAOL: Amber Rose has the best life and work advice ever
By: Donna Freydkin
The first thing Amber Rose says to you, upon hearing your first name: "That's the street I live on as well. And that's my best friend's name."
In photos, she's oozing attitude, but Rose is loquacious and warm during an interview. She's just launched a management company, she's got a talk show, there's hoofing on season 23 of "Dancing with the Stars" and oh, yeah, she's got one of fall's most-anticipated beauty launches, Flirt Cosmetics. The cool brand, which has illustrator Donald Robertson as its creative director, is releasing Flirt Flashes, a false lash applicator. (See our interview with Robertson above).
"They reached out to me. They loved my look and my buzz-cut and my tattoos and said that I was the girl they'd been looking for. I was like, 'Really?' They love my slut walk and everything that I'm about. They embraced me as a whole. We started working together," she says.
As for the hype surrounding the product, Rose is keeping her cool. "I never expect anything. I just hope for the best. Everyone is talking about it in the beauty world so I'm excited."
In real life, she's not product-crazed.
"I'm maybe a 7 out of 10. Not super crazy. I like to stick to something I really like until I find something better. Once I find that one thing, I'm stuck on it for a while. As far as cleansers, I like the Chanel brightening cleanser. I have the whole kit. After I had my son, I have a lot of freckles and they came together when I was pregnant; same thing happened to my cousin and my mom and aunt. Brightening cream really helps, from Chanel," says Rose, who has son Sebastian Taylor Thomaz, 3, with her ex, Wiz Khalifa.
She says the key to happiness is staying busy and engaged. Hence, her many endeavors.
"I really love being an entrepreneur. I get bored easily. I love having a million different jobs. I'm always busy and it's fun. It's very important to be happy at your job. So that's why I get my hands into everything. It just makes me happy. The management company – I just signed my first model and she comes from where I come from. A lot of girls get labeled as Instagram models and it's complete (nonsense). Social media is a place where you can start your own business. She's my first girl. Hopefully she becomes bigger than me. I'm really in it to change lives," says Rose.
When she's home with her son, she keeps it easy and simple.
"I don't live my life for the paparazzi and the celebrity side of it. I'll go out with a washed face, nothing on, throw on a little sundress and take my son to the park. I'm not one of those girls who need a full moment to take my baby out. I'm out with my kid. I don't need to have on heels. It takes five minutes. Get out of the shower, throw on a dress and take my baby out," she says.
MUVA management company
Dancing with the Stars season 23
It's cutting-edge, rule-breaking, fun, and sexy. Forget staying in the lines, this is all about smudging, smearing, and reinventing with no rules and no permission. WAmber is the queen of having followers, not being one, and she's tearing up the streets of LA flaunting her Flirt. Together, Flirt, Amber and Donald are a wild combination of high fashion, pop culture, and bold, fun beauty.
<image004.jpg>With its revolutionary (and super-chic!) self-contained storage and applicator package, Flashes dispenses false lash buds, allowing you to customize your lash look by applying as many or as few lashes as you want to, all in a just a flash!
Flirt Flashes is also Flirt's first smart beauty product, catering to a tech-obsessed generation hungry for the next big, bound to go viral thing. Utilizing NFC technology, just a tap of your smartphone leads to instant tutorials and video content. It's the closest thing to having a personal beauty advisor in your back pocket (only available on Android for now!)
Flirt Flashes ($28) officially launches on September 15th, only on flirtcosmetics.com. Be sure to tell your readers to get on the waitlist to be the first to get Flashes!
(Watch our interview with Donaldson above).
