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

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We appreciate enthusiasm for new releases but ask readers to please hold questions regarding if/when SHEA) BUTTER · ISOPROPYL TITANIUM TRIISOSTEARATE · PROPYLENE CARBONATE · SIMETHICONE · BHT · PHENOXYETHANOL · FRAGRANCE (PARFUM) · LINALOOL · NARS: As soon as you tell people, “Oh, I loved this time . . .” they start saying, “You cannot be nostalgic.” Well, you know what? I’m very nostalgic—and I don’t care. [ laughs] As much as there are good things today, talking about models now . . . You feel that they are really out there. But are they really enjoying being models? It’s very hard to say. I mean, I could always tell that you loved being a model. You loved being photographed. NARS: Well, that’s why today, darling, girls disappear after a year. I mean, nobody lasts more than a year or two. NARS: Yeah, I think probably on myself—I mean, like any queen, you know what I mean? [ both laugh] Which queen didn’t play with makeup?

EVANGELISTA: So when you started NARS, why did you go to Fabien to help create the brand and the campaigns? NARS: Oh, me too—of that time. The fabulous thing is that I have so many videos. I never transferred them to digital. I need a professional to do it—somebody I can trust, who will not duplicate them or sell them or put them on the internet. You have to be so careful. That’s why I never went forward with transferring them. But there is such gold on those tapes. Guy bourdin waS onE of ThE phoToGraphErS who rEaLLy infLuEncEd mE To bEcomE a makEup arTiST, and i fELT ThaT hE dESErVEd To bE GiVEn crEdiT for ThaT. François Nars

Honolulu Honey

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. 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: It looks good even on pink skin. I have a redheaded friend who looks beautiful in pink. But Orgasm isn’t exactly pink.

EVANGELISTA: When I see the way brands name their products now, I want to scream, because you were the first one to come up with these amazing names for your colors, which absolutely describe the color. That was your concept, and I feel like that’s part of what made your products so unique. NARS: That’s the good part: we don’t know what color it is exactly. That’s why it’s so good. It’s not pink. It’s not peach. It’s not apricot.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)]. 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: 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. 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.

NARS: It’s really crazy. Bourdin was one of the photographers who really influenced me to become a makeup artist, and I felt that he deserved to be given credit for that. We have purples and coppers . . . I mean, I knew the photographs so well that it was kind of easy to put the whole thing together. His son, Samuel, gave us access to all of the archives, so I was able to use the images as part of it. EVANGELISTA: There’s always so much hype when you launch a new collection. The blogs go crazy. Does that freak you out?

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. EVANGELISTA: When was the first time that you ever played with makeup? Did you get into mother’s makeup? Linda Evangelista, who has known Nars since the late ’80s—and has frequently served as a canvas for some of his most iconic work—recently met up with him at the Star Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel off Central Park in Manhattan. 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: 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. NARS: Of course it’s annoying. It’s getting so hard to find the good names after almost 20 years. I have this little agenda that I’m filling up 24 hours a day with names. So I’m working on it even when I sleep. Sometimes I wake up and write down a name in my agenda. Can you imagine?EVANGELISTA: Because initially, the rest of the girls were all “show” girls and I wasn’t. I didn’t have a place yet. I wasn’t a “print” girl or a “show” girl. I felt like I was the new one. NARS: And that’s how I believe we became better and better—me for makeup; you in front of the camera. The more you work and the more you start being molded by the photographer- and by the hair, by the makeup, and discovering new angles, new makeup, and all that—that’s how you built up into being who you are today. But that, to me, is completely gone. I mean, which girl today do you see growing and transforming herself into an icon? There are not many. answered already. Comments alerting us to typos or small errors in the post are appreciated (!) but NARS: I’m very shy so, of course, going to a store where there are 300 people waiting in line is a bit overwhelming. It’s not my favorite thing in the world. I like to be in the studio, playing with friends, in a small group. But the reward of seeing those women is very nice. EVANGELISTA: I apologize because I didn’t know that you could do powder without looking. [ both laugh] But I do remember walking into Steven’s studio for that first shooting with Polly Mellen and you and Oribe.