Zoe Saldana x Alllure Magazine.

The Star Trek Into Darkness actress strips down for her Allure photo shoot—and talks about her approach to sexuality and her thoughts on dating actors (one ex is Bradley Cooper). Check out these exclusive photos from her shoot with photographer Tom Munro at Milk Studios in New York City.

I have a HUGE crush on Zoe, she is hot stuff and just gorgeous! When  I heard about this Allure shoot, I had to post my thoughts and put you all in the loop!

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  Saldana is decisive. From the start, she was never one to dither, not about her career, and certainly not about love. "If I have something good in front of me—it doesn't matter if it's a person or a pair of shoes—I'm not going to test something else," she explains. "It's insecure, and it's immature." She is now—after around 12 years of dating entrepreneur Keith Britton, and a far shorter and more tumultuous time spent with Bradley Cooper—vigilantly single. "Been there, done that, got the T-shirt," she says of dating actors. Here, she poses in nothing but a gold cuff by H.Stern. 

 Saldana describes herself as "androgynous." She adds that one day she might "end up with a woman raising my children...that's how androgynous I am!" Does she mean she would be amenable to the idea of raising a child with another woman as her partner? "Yes, I was raised that open."

Has she had a relationship with another woman? She deliberates, then says, "Promise me one thing: You're going to ask this question [in the article]—if you choose to, just put three dots as my response. That's it."

 

"We tried to steer away from her classic red lips," makeup artist James Kaliardos said of Saldana's look here, which is the cover image. He wanted to "give Zoë a more natural look." Kaliardos drew black liquid liner on Saldana's upper lids, then blended gold, brown, and beige cream eye shadows on top. He swirled peach blush and nude highlighter on her cheekbones to contour them and completed the soft look by dabbing a peachy pink gloss on her lips. Silk satin top by Gucci.

 Garren chose to keep Saldana's natural curly texture, which she confessed to preferring over her usual salon-straightened strands. He misted her dry hair with Garren New York Designing Spray Tonic to lock in her natural waves. After drying her hair with a diffuser, he curled it with a small curling iron, working in two-inch sections, then raked through it all with a wide-tooth comb. Here, Garren and Cavaco prep Saldana's hair for the cover photo.

The actress is actually far less concerned about her skin shade than about being what she calls "a woman in a man's world." She says, "It's hard enough to be a woman on this earth. So to be an American or black or Latina, it's arbitrary compared to our battles as women." Here, Garren fluffs Saldana's hair.

 Saldana has found a balance of ambition and self-acceptance. "Now, in the last few years of my life, I'm actually claiming what I want and not being afraid that I'm jinxing it, that it might not happen, that I might be disappointed if it doesn't happen," she says. "It's OK to say, 'This is what I want'—and go after it. And if it doesn't happen, it's OK. Be a reasonable person with yourself."