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Taylor Swift Drops Midnights Bonus Tracks & New Music Video
Taylor Swift knows however to marque the full spot shimmer.
That's particularly existent erstwhile legendary constitution artist Pat McGrath is connected hand. For Taylor's new "Bejeweled" euphony video, Pat made definite to transform the superstar into a decadent dream, utilizing the powerfulness of constitution to bring the six-minute ocular to life.
"The infinitesimal I heard the title, 'Bejeweled' I had visions of scintillating, shimmering and sparkling," the Pat McGrath Labs founder exclusively told E! News. "With each that inspiration and Taylor's brief, I had a cardinal ideas of however we could usage constitution to pass her directorial imaginativeness and storytelling done constitution artistry."
In summation to referencing art, movie and vintage Hollywood glamour, she pulled inspiration from past manner shows like Versace's fall/winter 2014 collection, Margiela's Haute Couture spring/summer 2016 runway and Prada's fall/winter 2018 show.
"Contoured reddish ombré lips, jeweled smoke, crystal feline eyes, sublime tegument and divine blush—these are the respective ways to bring 'Bejeweled' to life," she noted. "I designed astir 30 looks, which I past executed with my team. We experimented with each color, antithetic helping shapes, assorted ombré gradations and each sorts of oculus shadows."
As she enactment it, "It was constitution heaven."
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She applied galore of her line's products, digging into her arsenal and pulling retired galore of her classical shadows and adjacent an unreleased product: The Mothership Celestial Nirvana Eye Palette.
Plus, the 57-year-old said she stayed existent to Taylor's style—keeping the singer's signature dagger-sharp helping and vibrant reddish lip—but remixed it conscionable a small for the euphony video.
"When I deliberation of Taylor, I ever deliberation of a perfect reddish lip," Pat explained. "When we archetypal did the Met Gala successful 2010, we did a bold, confident, empowered look centered connected reddish matte lipstick. For 'Bejeweled' and her VMAs appearance, I couldn't ideate not doing thing with reddish lipstick."
The beauty icon said she "took it to the adjacent level" by creating an ombré effect connected Taylor, which took not one, not 2 but three lipsticks total. She swiped the shades Legendary Wear Matte Lipstick 'ELSON 4' and PermaGel Ultra Glide Lip Pencils successful Deep Dive, Blood Lust and Deep Void to execute the fearless look.
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While the dame herself makes a cameo successful the euphony video, playing the queen, there's different portion of the ocular that stands retired to her.
"One of my astir memorable moments was watching Taylor and Dita [Von Teese] doing their regular successful the champagne glasses," Pat shared. "It was genuinely epic."
All successful all, the constitution creator described the singer as the "ideal creative collaborator," gushing, "Taylor was a genius partner."
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