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Carrie wore it first — but who wears it best? Bachelorette Emily Maynard appeared at Monday night’s rose ceremony in Dubrovnik, Croatia, wearing a glimmering Gomez-Gracia column dress — the same gown Carrie Underwood wore to the Grammy Awards just four months ago.

“I absolutely adore Carrie Underwood, so the fact that she wore this dress to the Grammys made me love it that much more,” Maynard tells InStyle.com.

Maynard says she’d been saving the dress “for somewhere really special” because she liked it so much. And while Underwood accessorized it simply when she wore it — adding earrings by Johnathon Arndt, a sleek Rene Caovilla clutch and Jimmy Choo sandals — Maynard added a little something extra.

“Because it was so cold out, I wore black leggings underneath,” she admits. “Thankfully no one noticed!” Who wears it best? Vote below!

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We’ve always found Carrie Underwood to be down to earth, but the signer’s recent revelation — she does her own hair and makeup on tour! — has us in awe. “When you’re on stage, it’s a little bit different than real life,” she tells Stylelist. “You can kind of pile it on — and you need to for things to show up. You can do things you wouldn’t really do. You can put glitter on your eyes.”

Stage hair is fun to style, too. “The bigger, the better,” Underwood adds. And surprisingly, getting spotlight-ready isn’t stressful for the star. “It’s a nice relaxing time,” she says. “A calm before the storm, if you will.”

Underwood, who’s had long blonde hair for years, says she’s also considering a change at some point. “I wanted to dye my hair darker,” she admits. “Maybe someday I’ll do something a little more drastic.” As long as it doesn’t involve scissors. “I don’t think I’m meant for short hair, though,” she shares. “I don’t feel as pretty when I chop it off, which I have done before.”

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These days, Carrie Underwood has her skincare routine down to a science — but it wasn’t quite that way growing up.

“If I could go back and talk to my 15-year-old self I’d be like, ‘Seriously, listen to your mom,’” she tells PEOPLE. “Drink more water, put more sunscreen on, moisturize. There are a lot of people like me who wish they did more.”

But as the face of Olay, Underwood has come to realize how important it is to take care of your skin — and that “it doesn’t have to be complicated,” she says. “I don’t have time for complicated. I don’t have space in my luggage for 20 things that do different things for my skin — I don’t know anyone who does.”

She’s always happy to make a little extra room in her suitcase for some fun makeup, though. “I love to play with makeup,” she admits. “I will go into a makeup store and walk out and not even know what happened, carrying this giant bag of stuff. But I can, because I’m on stage — I can wear things that I can’t otherwise. So I have a little bit of everything in my kit.”

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Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez and (begrudgingly) Adam Levine may be into the idea of creating their own fragrances, but one star who’s not? Carrie Underwood.

“I really don’t know if I would do the whole fragrance thing,” she tells AOL’s The Boot. “I don’t want to smell like anybody else.”

More importantly, she doesn’t want anyone else smelling like her. “If people walked up to me smelling like me, it might weird me out,” she admits. “So that one’s not quite for me.”

However, the young starlet — the current face of Olay — isn’t totally opposed to putting her name on a product. When asked about creating clothing and shoes someday, the singer has a change of tune. “I would love to do that for other people,” she shares, “and create things that people would like to wear.” Perhaps we have another Jessica Simpson in our midst? Tell us: Have you ever purchased a celebrity perfume?

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Country music’s finest came out to celebrate at the CMA Awards in Nashville Wednesday night — and their outfits did not disappoint.

Entertainer of the year Taylor Swift had an ethereal red carpet moment in J. Mendel, while Miranda Lambert opted for a glimmering black Haute Hippie gown. LeAnn Rimes added some drama in a ruffled, patterned peplum gown, and Kellie Pickler picked a silver Pamella Roland dress.

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