Pat McGrath : “It is amazing. We wanted to let the mind travel. We were thinking of the future, of Africa, and we wanted it to be exquisitely jeweled. What we came up with is insane—starting with the base, we layered paint, glitter, crystals secured with eyelash glue, and then gauze and plastic. It took nine hours to come up with. We tried it in every color over the course of a few days and then solidified all the colors for a few days. For the show, we started putting the makeup on at nine in the morning and we were done at seven-thirty—only half an hour before the show!”

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