Emma Watson hung up her wizard hat this summer after the final chapter of the “Harry Potter” saga his theaters – and the Brit beauty has wasted no time putting Hermione Granger behind her. She’s got two new movies: “My Week With Marilyn”, out next month, and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, which will be released next year. And then there’s her new gig as the face of Lancôme’s Rouge in Love lipstick and nail polish range, which arrives in stores on Valentine’s Day (the actress already appears in ads for the French brand’s fragrance, Trésor Midnight Rose< ). Here, she shares her beauty essentials.

Lancôme Trésor Midnight Rose
“My dad took me to a perfume factory in France when I was much younger, and you could create your own scent. I had one of those for a while. It probably smelled awful but I was really proud of it. I really wanted to be one of those one-scent girls, but I always ended up trying different things. I have been wearing Tresor Midnight Rose a lot recently, though, obviously.”

LancômeRouge in Love Lipstick in Corail in Love
“When I was younger, I would go for more of a natural lip. Now I like playing with different colours. This is just a beautiful thing to hold and own. It’s something that’s light enough to wear in the day and remake an impression at night.”

Yves Saint Laurent Creme de Blush in Powdery Rose
“I have to wear a blush or some kind of bronze because I am so pale and Enlgish, so I am big into cream blushers.…

In case you were a little bleary eyed over your Breakfast Smile platter, that really was Emma Watson at the Eat’n Park, winding down after a long day of filming.

It was one of her haunts — along with the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bethel Park, which she called home — for part of the spring and summer while filming “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in Pittsburgh.

“The shooting schedule’s been kind of crazy. It’s such a great group of people, and we all got so close that we mainly just hang out at the Crowne Plaza — I’m serious — and we play music,” she said in late June in Peters Township.

(Summit Entertainment just released the first photos from the movie set to arrive in theaters in 2012.)

“Pretty much everyone that’s part of the cast is musically talented in some way, so we spent most of our evenings playing music and just talking and just being silly. I’ve been to Eat’n Park a few times. A bunch of times, actually.”

She would usually go after filming when it was late and the place was quiet. “I haven’t had too much time to do anything but everyone’s been so friendly,” she said.

The 21-year-old plays high school senior Sam in the movie version of the novel about Charlie, a brilliant but sensitive 15-year-old who pours into letters his feelings about first-time emotions and experiences, perceptive observations about the people around him and, eventually, heartrending memories that surface.

Logan Lerman stars as Charlie and the cast also features Nina Dobrev as Charlie’s overachieving older sister; Dylan McDermott and Kate Walsh as their parents; Ezra Miller as Sam’s stepbrother, also a senior; Mae Whitman as a “Rocky Horror Picture Show” enthusiast who asks Charlie to a Sadie Hawkins’ dance; Johnny Simmons as a closeted jock; and Paul Rudd as an English teacher.…

Forget that famous film series, there’s much more to Emma Watson than the role that defined her for more than a decade – as we’re about to discover.

Who’d have thought that meeting Emma Watson would be such an underwhelming experience? Well, you wouldn’t. Why ever would you? There are certain expectations when you fall into the orbit of a Hollywood star – not just any old star, in this case, but the most famous of her generation, lead actress in the biggest film franchise of all time, currently one of the industry’s highest earners – and, well, you’re waiting for some of them to be met. She should be self-absorbed with the narcissism of youth, at the very least, carrying an undersized dog and an inflated ego, or else, conversely, be making an unconvincing attempt to seem simple and almost exactly the same as us civilians, despite an estimated £24 million fortune. But…no. Not Emma Watson. Instead, she appears as herself. That is, a delightfully ordinary 21 year old who has ended up in the most extraordinary of circumstances. “I question it all the time. Like, this is craziness! I can’t believe my own life. How on earth did I manage this? How am I here? It is very, very strange.”

As she sits with her knees neatly pressed together, dressed in a perfectly serviceable outfit of black leggings and ballet pumps, Emma Watson looks for all the world like an eager student waiting for a lecture. She’s pretty in a clean, fresh-faced sort of way – with her gamine hair and scrubbed skin, she looks heart-wrenchingly young.…

• “I’m English and I have a pale complexion, so I love blush.”

• “In the garden of my father’s house in London, we have jasmine growing on the balcony, so the scent of jasmine always makes me think of summer evenings and being outside.”

• “The funny thing about me is that I have tons of product. I have always loved makeup and its ability to transform, but I don’t actually wear a lot of it myself.”

• “My dad took my family on holiday to the south of France, and we visited a parfumier. I remember my stepmom getting very cross because she thought I was far too young to own my own fragrance! I think I was seven years old, but I still have it.”

• “I love Covent Garden and Soho, which has such a lively, colourful and vibrant atmosphere.”

• “I still have lots of family and friends in Paris. My favourite places are Café de Flore, the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and walking along the Seine.”…

From adorable ingenue to fashion icon, there’s no doubt we’re spellbound by Emma Watson.

What would it be like to be 21 years old and have already achieved the kind of staggering fame and fortune that is known only to a handful of people around the globe? It’s not a fantasy that most people can even begin to relate to, but it’s a reality for Emma Watson. After making a name—and a small empire—for herself as the quick-witted witch Hermione Granger in what we’ll call the “Harry Potter phenomenon,” Watson is perched on the brink of adulthood. So, now that the wizard has uttered his last spell, the world is waiting to see if Watson—who was cast in the role when she was only nine— is able to emerge as something, well, a little less witchy. It’s a pivotal moment when the weight of the spotlight could feel leaden.

It’s fitting, then, that My Week with Marilyn, out in November, is Watson’s first film since the book closed on Potter. Watson plays a stylist who worked with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) on the last film of her heartbreaking career. Although they’re both Hollywood blondes, that’s where the parallel ends. Watson is no whispering bombshell; she is decidedly more practical than that. “I can’t remember very much of my life when I wasn’t famous,” she explains simply, now settled in London. “I haven’t really known anything different. There have been times when my life was very odd, though. I could come from a day at school when I’d be doing math one minute and then changing into a premiere dress the next.”

The fact that the daughter of two British barristers signed up to study English, history and art at the Ivy League school Brown University at the very pinnacle of her fame (when some other starlets end up scoring their first DUI arrest) is a tribute to her steely work ethic.…

NOBODY ever got through high school without being a little aimless and more than a little dramatic. Not so long ago Emma Watson discovered that for herself.

Ms. Watson was in this leafy suburb of Pittsburgh, a 30-minute drive from the glass-and-steel downtown, filming a movie that’s set at Peters Township High School. Every day she arrived at the sprawling campus, with its swim team and banners promoting reading, to experience the youthful rites that, as the Oxfordshire-bred star of the “Harry Potter” franchise from age 10 to 20, had otherwise eluded her.

“Oh my goodness, so many firsts,” she said, speaking in an excited rush during a break from filming. “I did the prom! We all get dressed up and we go in a limo, and get photographs. It’s been really fun for me to get to graduate. Eating in the school canteen; all these things that I’ve always sort of said to my American friends, ‘Oh, that looks amazing, that looks so fun, I’m jealous.’ And I get to do it for this movie.”

The film, an adaptation of the young-adult novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” a beloved coming-of-age tale published in 1999, will be the next starring role for Ms. Watson, 21, and practically her first that doesn’t involve a cast of wizards and trolls. Though she earned legions of young fans as the plucky Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” series (and as the fashion-forward face of several luxury brands), Ms. Watson has never played a regular girl, let alone a suburban American.…

RIP Hermione, long live Emma Watson! We chat to the superstar about fashion, film and *gulp* life after ‘Potter’ …

As she failed to hold back tears at July’s premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2′, the final instalment of a franchise that transformed her life, Emma Watson had come of age. Dressed in a silver-grey Oscar de la Renta gown, the awkward girl who first walked the red carpet aged 11, now 21, finally bid farewell to Hermione and said, “Hello, Hollywood A-List!” While wearing couture, naturally.

She’s elfin, poised and a natural beauty in a very English way. No wonder, then, that she was appointed the face of Burberry in 2009, succeeding Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn. Plus, this year, she was named brand ambassador for Lancôme.

A style icon and Hollywood superstar, but how does Emma feel about life after ‘Potter’? Company sat down to find out…

It’s finally bye-bye, Hermione. So what’s up next for Emma?
Everything’s up for grabs, really. I’m excited and nervous.

How similar are you to Hermione?
I probably started out more like her and got less like her. Like her, I think with my head – and I’m intellectual, so we’re similar in that way. We’re also very eager to please, have a need for approval and are not the kind of people who want to break the rules. Overall, I think I’m more of a rounded person than she is. She’s very focused on her studies but I think I’m more creative.…

With beauty contracts and buzzed-about roles, Emma Watson graduates from ‘Harry Potter’ with honours.

“The other day I was like, ‘I can’t take it anymore,’” Emma Watson cries, on the phone from her home in London. But the 21-year-old managed to be strong. “Just persevere,” she told herself. “You have to stick with it.”

Fortunately, it wasn’t an existential crisis over the end of the ‘Harry Potter’ series. The reason behind her emotional meltdown? Her hair: that now famous pixie cut that drew comparisons to Mia Farrow when she snipped her familiar long locks last year. Now she’s getting the style out into a bob for her next film, 2012′s teen drama ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’. “I’m going through that awkward in-between stage,” she says. “But it’s not been easy.”

When it comes to her career, however, the transition has been much smoother. When ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2′ opened in July, it marked the end of an eight-film saga that’s hauled in more than $6 billion at the box office over 10 years – nearly half of Watson’s life. Yet, as she hangs up her Hogwarts robe, her agenda is anything but open.

Watson’s already wrapped a role as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who works with Michelle Williams’ Marilyn Monroe in the Oscar-tipped ‘My Week with Marilyn’. “I tend to think of the tragedy,” Watson says of Monroe. “She was made out to be this pin-up and this image of glamour and sex and actually she was a very fragile, complex person who I think was really misunderstood and really abused.”

Like the ‘Potter’ series, ‘Wallflower’ is based on a young-adult novel, though instead of Herbology and teen hormones, it tackles serious themes such as sexual abuse and suicide.…

Now that the Deathly Hallows are done with, and Hermione and Ron are married happily ever after, Emma Watson is off on a new adventure – playing a troubled Pittsburgh teen in soon-to-be cult high school move ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’, shooting a sexy campaign for Lancôme, and dancing around a sun-kissed garden with Mariano Vivanco …

Emma Watson is in bloom. Because she just turned 21, and spent her birthday starring in a Lancôme campaign shot by Mario Testino? Because ‘Harry Potter’ has finally ended? Because she’s crashing and burning and twitter-seconds away from being caught puking outside Chateau Marmont in a ripped dress? No, none of the above, but because she’s in Pittsburgh shooting scenes for forthcoming movie ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’. Shooting overruns way past midnight and her sleeping pattern has synced to the erratic call-times. “We’ve been finishing pretty late, almost 3am most nights so it’s pretty full on,” says Emma, in her eloquent, unchipped accent. “It’s strange being nocturnal. On ‘Harry Potter’ we all had our own separate cars, but on this production we all pile into a white van and travel together. There have been moments when I’ve been sitting in the back of the van, exhausted – that satisfying exhaustion when you feel like you’ve really done something – and the sun’s just rising over Pittsburgh, it’s very beautiful, kind of the best feeling ever.”

Emma’s days as Hermione Granger, the super-cute child potion-master turned stunning sorcerer’s apprentice, are forever over.…

As ‘Harry Potter’ comes to an end Emma Watson talks about her fashion heroes and reveals her future plans.

Last week’s New York premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2′ drew to a close an incredibly era in the lives of its stars and to mark the occasion one of them, Emma Watson, pulled out all the stops in her choice of red-carpet outfit.

“New York is such a fashion capital, I felt I could push the envelope a bit. With London I went a bit more classic [she wore a fairytale silver Oscar de la Rena gown], but for today I wanted to do something edgier.”

At just 21, Emma has been a household name for almost half of her life. She was only 11 when she first landed in the spotlight, at the premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, and now – a decade on and with eight ‘Harry Potter’ films under her belt – she admits she’s an old hand at the movie premiere game.

“It’s something that comes with practice,” she admits. “I remember the first time someone asked me, ‘What are you wearing?’ – meaning which designer – and I thought, ‘What a strange question. Obviously I’m wearing a dress!’ But you know, you make mistakes and you learn from them and these days I have a lot of fun on the red carpet.”

She certainly has. As soon as Emma finished filming the final movie, which hit UK cinemas last week, she cut off her hair, which she had kept long to play her character Hermione Granger.…