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With her divorce papers filed, Eva Longoria's showing the world that she's a strong and sexy independent woman on the April cover of Allure magazine. The Desperate Housewives star says the last few months have "been hard. Very hard," but that she's trying to handle them as "gracefully as possible" with the help of good girlfriends. Stephane Marais, who did the makeup for the shoot, wanted to give the petite actress a sexy Sophia Loren look so started by filling in her brows and giving her lash-o-rama volume, which suited Eva fine: "She's a lashes freak—the more I added, the happier she was," Stephane said. To get that Italian-movie-star bedroom bounce, hairstylist Serge Normant spritzed Eva's hair with a volumising spray before drying and setting it in pin curls. What do you think of the spread? Do you like the big hair and bold brow?