As Britta Perry, the consummate East Coaster on NBC’s Community, Gillian Jacobs struggles with her pronunciation of everyone’s favorite carb—insisting that in New York, where she’s lived, they’re called “bag-els” not “bay-gels.” Correcting pronunciation comes naturally for Jacobs. (Her own name is said with a hard G—like Gilligan—not with a J, like the no-bs-no-carbs trainer, Jillian Michaels.) But having a tacit connection with the goofy, bumbling Gilligan is no problem for Jacobs, who in spite of her formal Julliard training and her modelesque good looks, is an unflinchingly deadpan comedian. “One thing that’s true for both comedy and drama is that you can’t hold onto your vanity very tightly. I have to be willing to look like a fool on a regular basis, and that’s okay with me,” she told us. On the day she shot with us, however, she hardly looked the fool. “I’ve never felt more confident and glam than I did that day,” she said. But rest assured—no matter how we’d asked her to pose, Jacobs would have gone there, gladly—and with hard Gs.

“Being on a photo shoot is pure fun to me. You feel comfortable to put yourself out there and push things an extreme,” Jacobs said. “Plus, I’ve watched enough America’s Next Top Model to know how to act—I can usually get through them without even crying.”

“My natural hair color is a dirty blond, but I was white-blond as a kid. That’s my true hair color—I have a right to be this blond.”

Rachel Goodwin: “When playing up both the eyes and the mouth, keep it from looking harsh by using sheer, see through textures.”

To get this look, Goodwin used Koh Gen Do Aqua foundation in OC-1 and applied Jouer cheek tint in Poppy. She lined the eyes with and used Make Up Forever’s Gold Cream Color for the lids, and finished with . The lip is Nars Lip Gloss in Risky Business.

Jacobs has two beauty icons: “Brigitte Bardot for her hyper-femininity with all that hair and all those lips and all those curves. And Tilda Swinton, for going out without makeup and throwing it in the face of everyone.”