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"Carrie Underwood: Her Allure Photo Shoot\\nAt her shoot at the Glen Leven Estate, a historic farm in Nashville, singer Carrie Underwood managed to make a bale of hay look as comfortable as a featherbed. Check out these outtakes from the singer&amp;#39;s session with photographer Carter Smith, and for more of our interview with Underwood, pick up the April issue of Allure, on newsstands March 23.\\nUnderwood showed up to the set barefaced, wearing Juicy Couture sweats and a ponytail. She greeted *Allure* creative director Paul Cavaco and said gamely, \\\"So, what do you want to do?\\\" Here, she poses for Smith in a Lanvin dress.\\nAlthough it was a cold and windy December day, Underwood had an easygoing attitude. \\\"I asked her if she wanted a coat between setups, but she just shrugged it off,\\\" said Cavaco. \\\"Carrie thought it would be better if she simply got used to the cold.\\\"\\nFor a \\\"soft, sensual look,\\\" hairstylist Diego Da Silva used extensions to give Underwood bangs. He used a wide flatiron to smooth her hair without making it pin straight, worked a thickening lotion to give it body, and rubbed sculpting cream on the ends for texture.\\n\\\"I wanted to give her a look like Marianne Faithfull's in the 60s,\\\" said makeup artist Brigitte Reiss-Andersen. She dabbed on an almost translucent liquid foundation and added highlighter to the singer's cheekbones. She then lined Underwood's eyes with brown pencil and brushed a brown shadow on her lids and an eggshell hue up to her brows. The final touch: nude pink lipstick, which Reiss-Andersen applied with a lip brush.\\n\\\"He could have put a twisty-tie on my finger and that would have worked,\\\" Underwood says of her fianc\u00E9, hockey player Mike Fisher. \\\"He is the person that I see making me happy for the rest of our lives, and he is the person I would do anything for to make him happy. I very well may be the luckiest girl in the world.\\\"\\nUnderwood, who previously has been known for anthems like \\\"Before He Cheats,\\\" acknowledges that being in a happy relationship has changed the tone of her songs. \\\"I think it's a good thing,\\\" she says. \\\"I have more happy songs. I've never really done a love song, I realized, until this album.... I don't do feelings. I'm not a mushy person.\\\"\\nAlthough she became famous overnight after winning the fourth season of *American Idol*, Underwood is rarely associated with the show. But she's still loyal to it. \\\"People think they have us under lock and key for the rest of our lives,\\\" she says of *Idol* executives, but \\\"if I don't want to perform on it, I don't have to ever again. Of course, I will, because I'm not a little snot, you know?\\\"\\nUnderwood was always passionate about singing, but she was realistic about her chances of making it her career. She worried about being one of the people who \\\"spend the rest of their lives trying to chase a dream and always end up failing. I wasn't going to let that happen to me. I had other plans. But sometimes I guess God has really opposite plans of whatever you have.\\\" The singer seems almost ashamed of her success. \\\"I think if anybody in my position felt like they deserved it, there'd be something wrong with them,\\\" she says.\\n\\\"I think of 'Carrie Underwood' as being a different person,\\\" says the singer. \\\"I'm, like, Carrie in my sweatpants. But 'Carrie Underwood' is a person who can, you know, wear all the fishnets and the corsets. A lot of fun, to be able to be a bad girl, you know?\\\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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