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EVANGELISTA: But there were so many girls booked on that shooting, and we were just sitting and waiting. Then I got my turn, and I got so insecure because you were all talking about my gums and my knees. I thought, “Oh, they don’t like me. There’s something wrong with my gums. They’re saying, ‘When she smiles, we can see her gums.’” And I’m like, I’m gonna get thrown out of here because of my knees. NARS: Of course, I love it then. [ laughs] I mean, it’s like plastic surgery. The toughest thing is to not overdo it; same like you don’t overdo plastic surgery. It takes great talent to do good postproduction work. That’s why it’s so out of hand right now. 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? EVANGELISTA: It’s those colors you always mixed together to put on my face—the colors that you used on me. They were flat and matte, and then you’d add. 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.
EVANGELISTA: You know, I would never do that for anyone else. You know what a prude I am. I mean, I had to hold my hands over my boobs when you did my makeup. [ both laugh]SHEA) BUTTER · ISOPROPYL TITANIUM TRIISOSTEARATE · PROPYLENE CARBONATE · SIMETHICONE · BHT · PHENOXYETHANOL · FRAGRANCE (PARFUM) · LINALOOL · 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.”
EVANGELISTA: I can only do Honolulu Honey. [ sings] Honey, where’d you get those eyes? [ both laugh] I love my Honolulu Honey.
EVANGELISTA: I thought you were critiquing. I thought I was gonna be thrown out for the knees and the gums. EVANGELISTA: Why did you move to New York in the beginning? Did they not need makeup artists in the South of France?
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