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"   Photo: Emily Hebert  &amp;quot;His inspiration was neo noir comics, so there&amp;#039;s lots of black and white in the collection,&amp;quot; says Elle, Essie&amp;#039;s lead nail technician, backstage at 3.1 Phillip Lim. &amp;quot;At first we thought we&amp;#039;d do pops of color on the nail, but then Phillip sketched this beautiful shadowed nail\u2014like how a nail might look in a comic book\u2014so we did a black design with gray and white shadows in the corner, almost like a crescent moon.&amp;quot; Makeup also has a graphic novel feel. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a superhero bionic woman!&amp;quot; enthuses Nars Brand Ambassador Francelle Daly. &amp;quot;Phillip had a Roy Lichtenstein picture on his inspiration board, and we incorporated elements of that in the makeup.&amp;quot; Eyes were particularly influenced by Lichtenstein&amp;#039;s comic book-like paintings. After outlining eyes with liquid black liner, Daly used white eyeliner as mascara on the lower lash line by applying it with a Q-Tip. Next, she lavished false lashes with &amp;quot;around 15 coats&amp;quot;\u2014yes, you read right\u2014of Nars Larger Than Life Volumizing Mascara (&amp;quot;Phillip didn&amp;#039;t want the lashes to be too girly\u2014he wanted them blunt so that they&amp;#039;d make a big impression&amp;quot;). Finally, she used Nars Lip Liner in Jungle Red along the crease of the eyelid\u2014and inner corner. &amp;quot;I placed a dot of it where a natural tear would fall,&amp;quot; says Daly. &amp;quot;You never know if Lichtenstein&amp;#039;s girls are happy or sad but they&amp;#039;re always emotional and exciting, and I wanted that drama to come through.&amp;quot; Model Mackenzie Hamilton (above photo) is impressed with the beauty look. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m really excited about it because it was inspired by comic book superheros, and I love graphic novels,&amp;quot; she raves. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m such a nerd\u2014I&amp;#039;ve got a huge collection of them.&amp;quot;  She&amp;#039;s especially into Y: The Last Man: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s about how everyone on the planet drops dead except for one man and his monkey named Ampersand. The artist is Pia Guerra and she&amp;#039;s from Vancouver like me! There aren&amp;#039;t many females in the business of graphic novels so I also like her because of that.&amp;quot; Besides reading comics, Hamilton also enjoys working on her family&amp;#039;s cranberry farm. &amp;quot;This is my first Fashion Week after a two-year hiatus\u2014I haven&amp;#039;t done a Fashion Week since 2008!&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I took a break to go back to Canada. I worked with my grandmother on one of our cranberry farms and took a breath from fashion. It was nice to work with my hands and see tangible results.&amp;quot; For now, though, Hamilton is back in the spotlight. &amp;quot;I got a bit burnt out before, but now I&amp;#039;m back and better than ever!&amp;quot; she says, adding with a laugh, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s me, version 2.0!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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