NARS Satin Lipstick - Honolulu Honey (Beige) 0.12oz (3.4g)

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NARS: Yeah, but I’d done a couple shootings there for American Vogue, and the editor on them was Polly. I went crazy for Polly. I love Polly. She was so fabulous and such a character. She made me laugh and was also so incredibly talented. And she came from an era that was fascinating to me because she worked with Avedon in the ’60s and all that. So it was a dream. When she said, “You have to come to New York because I want you to work for the magazine there,” I said, “You don’t have to tell me twice—I’ll go and live in New York in a second.” So that’s the reason why I moved. I really wanted to work with those people, those legends. NARS: Well, that’s why today, darling, girls disappear after a year. I mean, nobody lasts more than a year or two.

EVANGELISTA: When was the first time that you ever played with makeup? Did you get into mother’s makeup? EVANGELISTA: I think I might know someone who can do it. Speaking of video cameras, do you remember the video camera we bought together on the street? NARS: Oh, I’m right next to them. I tell them exactly the smallest details of what to do—even if it’s one hair of an eyebrow that I want moving this way. I’m the same as I am with makeup. i aLwayS fELT LikE i couLd do makEup wiThouT So many producTS . . . ThE fun parT of doinG makEup iS rEaLLy mixinG ThinGS. François Nars

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NARS: I think I was tired of the South of France. I wanted to go somewhere else. The New York story is very easy: I was working on a job for American Vogue with Polly Mellen, and she was the person who said to me, “You have to come to the United States.”

NARS: They’re from that little camera I used to use—tiny tapes, like cassettes . . . What were they called? V8? No, that’s a drink. [ both laugh] Hi8? In any case, I’ve kept them buried in a box in a dry place. I know Steven is also dying to see them again. SHEA) BUTTER · ISOPROPYL TITANIUM TRIISOSTEARATE · PROPYLENE CARBONATE · SIMETHICONE · BHT · PHENOXYETHANOL · FRAGRANCE (PARFUM) · LINALOOL · EVANGELISTA: I thought you were critiquing. I thought I was gonna be thrown out for the knees and the gums. NARS: Well, the only thing I can tell you is that I was obsessive. Today, it’s all about postproduction, though, which is a bit sad to me because I come from an era where there was not as much retouching. There were mirrors—we learned about mirrors. But a good photographer and a good makeup artist could not rely on retouching. It’s very funny because I was talking with Bruce Weber the other day, and he said to me, “Do you believe that everything is so computerized? I’m still shooting film; I never went to digital.” NARS: She’s been to Tahiti with my dad many times, but now a little bit less in the last couple years. It’s a long trip.

NARS: Maybe . . . I mean, the good part about X-Ray was the fact that it mixed together so many different people. So many people have asked me, “Why don’t you do a second X-Ray?” So now I’m supposed to do a second one, which I’m going to start in May. All of the people I could not get the first time—I’m gonna photograph them now. EVANGELISTA: Yes, built in. It’s unbelievable. But there are so many things where I’m like, “No, I don’t remember that”—and they’re, like, big things . . . Actually, I remember the awful things about those early show days because I felt so out of place there. EVANGELISTA: Why did you move to New York in the beginning? Did they not need makeup artists in the South of France?

NARS: Other people have tried very hard, but I think I’ve still got the best names. There’s nothing you can do, so you have to take it as flattery. NARS: Well, now it’s getting quite big. We create a lot of products. After almost 20 years, you also have to be sure that you don’t recreate something that you’ve done already. EVANGELISTA: I just have so many great—and very blurry—memories of those days when we started working together. Blend of Moringa and Passion Fruit Seed Oils enhances colour vibrancy and conditions lips for a hydrated feel.

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Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Synthetic Wax, Polyethylene, Dimethicone, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2, Hydroxyapatite, Diisostearyl Malate, Microcrystalline Wax/Cera Microcristallina/Cire Microcristalline, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Phytosteryl/Octyldodecyl Lauroyl Glutamate, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Glyceryl Behenate, Sorbitan Sesquiisostearate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Passiflora Edulis Seed Oil, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil, Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate, Calcium Stearate, Tin Oxide, Simethicone, Bht, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance (Parfum), Linalool, Citronellol, Limonene, [+/- (May Contain/Peut Contenir): Blue 1 Lake (Ci 42090), Carmine (Ci 75470), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Iron Oxides (Ci 77492), Iron Oxides (Ci 77499), Mica, Red 28 Lake (Ci 45410), Red 33 (Ci 17200), Red 33 Lake (Ci 17200), Red 6 (Ci 15850), Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140)]. EVANGELISTA: So what’s your favorite thing to do now? Making makeup? Taking pictures? Working on your campaigns? Or do you love all of it? answered already. Comments alerting us to typos or small errors in the post are appreciated (!) but NARS: It actually ended up that Stephanie gave me one of her prints. [ laughs] I have two prints of Stephanie from when we did Egoïste—one where she has a little monkey on her shoulder. NARS: It’s a good one. But I designed this color like I would have designed any other color. I swear I never thought this was a special color.