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Since Bella Hadid’s modeling debut in 2013, she has been in hot demand in the fashion industry. From red carpet to runway, 22-year-old model has handled the fame and scrutiny with poise and style. Nevertheless, it should be no surprise that powerhouse brand Penshoppe is one of the fashion brands that had set their sights on her. After launching her sister Gigi’s campaign last year, Penshoppe finally welcomed the younger Hadid sister into their brand’s A-list roster. The jet-setting model is now being launched in the denim campaign this August and we got to witness the making of this highly anticipated campaign.

Set in sunny LA, the location for the campaign shoot was surrounded with graffiti tagged walls and abandoned warehouses making it the perfect setting for the “Generation Now” collection. In the midst of the lights, cameras, and photo crew is the fresh faced Bella Hadid moving effortlessly with each click of the camera. However, this Malibu girl is not taking the shoot too seriously, you can see her lighthearted side as she tries to jump on the videographer’s skateboard in between changes. She laughs then jokingly tells the team “I dabble [in skateboarding]” as she skates away. Living in the public eye, its great to see this living mannequin be so sweet and kind in real life.

As the sun shifts from high noon to the golden sunset, you can tell that she knows all the right angles and can transform from sexy to playful with each shutter of the camera. At the end of the shoot day, we settle back in her trailer and talk about how she feels to be the face of such a prestigious Asian brand, who her favorite supermodel is, and how often she steals her sister’s clothes.

Who would you trade lives for a day?
I don’t know…I have to think about that one.

What’s your guilty pleasure song?
It’s probably “Attention” by Charlie Puth. I love it. It’s my favorite thing and I’ll always blast it. It’s amazing.

What’s your worst habit?
It would have been biting my nails but I stopped…I think…kind of…but that’s my worst habit.

Who’s your favorite supermodel?
Giselle [Bundchen].

Who was your first Hollywood crush?
Johnny Depp.

What movie always makes your cry?
I cry every time at every movie. I can’t even pick one. (Laughs)

What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Its when people talk over each other… One person needs to talk at one time. (Laughs)

How old were you when you started wearing makeup?
I think 16.

How often did you steal your sister’s clothes?
I think now, not some much cause we kind of keep locks on our closets. (Laughs) But definitely as a kid we would get into lots of fights it. I think that’s the only thing we got into fights about was stealing each other’s clothes.

What trend did you used to hate but fell in love with?
Low-waist jeans. I used to not like low-waist jeans and now I think they are so cute.

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Bazaar sat down with woman of the moment and face of Dior make-up Bella Hadid to talk all things beauty, from her product obsessions to her empowering beauty message…

Growing up, how adventurous were you with make-up?

“I wasn’t really into red lips or anything like that but I grew up in Malibu where we didn’t wear a lot of make-up. I always loved make-up and colour and seeing amazing eyeshadow looks on the runway though. In our Dior campaign, I’m wearing this beautiful blue shadow – but when you have someone like Peter [Philips, creative and image director for Dior] putting it on you, of course it looks incredible. But growing up, I was the opposite. I loved black eyeliner; I would really pack it on. My 14-year-old punk side was really proud of me.”

 What beauty question are you asked the most?

“It’s funny because I guess I do this particular make-up look a lot – dewy skin with a little liner. People always ask me what my highlighter is. It’s the Maximizer* and I carry it with me everywhere and put it on my whole face. I had it at the Victoria’s Secret show and was putting it on all of the girls.”

You don’t have to be a runway devotee to have noticed that Bella Hadid has become a force to be reckoned with. The 20-year-old sister of Gigi Hadid has fully stepped out of her sister’s shadow, with high-profile fashion show appearances, magazine covers, and multiple print campaigns under her belt. But a certain proclivity for publicity doesn’t mean she’s an open book: Here are five things you probably didn’t know about Bella Hadid.

1. Hadid began riding horses “since [she] could walk” and developed into an accomplished equestrian.

“You know how every model is like, ‘I do yoga?’ Well, I find horses have the same effect,” she once said. In 2015, Hadid revealed that she was even training for the 2016 Olympics. Her mother, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster explained in a January 2016 blogpost that her daughter’s equestrian ambitions were curbed by her having contracted Lyme disease. (Her mother and brother, Anwar, both also have it.) “She is resilient and focused on a new direction,” Foster wrote. “She’s made a name for herself in the modeling industry while she struggles with symptoms of chronic Lyme every day.”

2. Before she followed her sister’s footsteps to the catwalk, Hadid moved to New York to pursue a degree in photography.

While she reportedly had been interested in the subject since childhood, it took time for her to adjust to being in front of the camera. “There wasn’t really one time in my life where I was like, ‘I want to be a model!’ It was more Gigi’s thing,” Hadid told Teen Vogue in 2014. “I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn’t.”

3. Hadid dyed her naturally blonde hair brown to distinguish herself from her older sister.

“I just have a darker personality. And my sister being blonde and me being brunette, it’s a good separation,” she has said. “I put a blonde wig on and think it would be fun to go back, but I’m happy with my hair. Blondes are so angelic. My sister can get away with anything.”

4. According to the model, she is most often compared to another well-known face:

Jennifer Lawrence. (“Multiple times a day,” says Hadid.) They eventually found themselves face to face at the 2015 Met Gala. “I don’t even know if she knows that. I swear we made eye contact,” Hadid has said. “I had to shake her hand while we walked in, and I was like, ‘This is so weird.’ I don’t know if she did a double take or whatever, but it happened.”

5. Hadid doesn’t consider her very public split from The Weeknd to be her first big breakup.

While battling Lyme disease, a 16-year-old Hadid made the tough decision to part ways with who she considered her first true love: a horse named Lego. “I rotated between a few horses that could jump higher or whatever. But Lego was my main, my ride or die,” Hadid revealed in an interview this February. “When I had to sell him, it was like a breakup! I was really traumatized.” Hadid continued: “You can ask any equestrian: You develop a crazy, emotional connection with this animal. When you’re riding a horse, they have full control over you, and they can literally kill you in a second, so you build a trust with them.” After that type of trauma, a tabloid-ready split’s nothing.

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