Unmade-up Yet M.A.D.E.

You'd notice her flawless skin unmade-up whenever on the floor. On the floor, meaning, while this one makeup artist "belonging to the tiny elite of designers, photographers, stylists, image-makers.." is currently metamorphing a model's pale face into a Dutch masters-inspired beauty, for instance. That's what i'm talking about! The masterpiece speaks a thousand words than its maker, but the maker's name can speak a thousand more (am i making sense?). Like a barber with the bushy hair, whose shop has always been flooded with hair dust on the floor, who's wanted by the great many for a perfect haircut.

But no bushy hair for this one Ms. Pat Mcgrath. Though her unmade-up face wasn't what only rang a bell in my eardrums, it was also her revolutionary traveling/working style that caught me. ''Wherever she goes, between 30 to 50 bags of materials and tools, art, fashion, and reference books arrive ahead of her (for the Dior couture extravaganza this summer, it was 55, shipped to Versailles with 25 assistants)." '"Even when i began, i maybe had three trunks when most people had ziploc bags.. i always thought, Well, a silver's not just a silver. There's 30 versions of it." So huge is her collection, it has its own driver, who speeds from show to show and across the Alps in time to leave the last Milan show (Versace 10:00pm) and make the first test in Paris (Balenciaga, 8:00am). Pat, meanwhile, is whisked there by private plane.'

Thinking of a presidential escort or an entourage for a Hollywood star? Not quite, my dear. This is an entourage for a makeup artist, a star, who is "in a class by herself". "In a profession where makeup artists are frequently [if not always], treated as anonymous, [McGrath's world is history]."

Ever grateful to Sarah Mower who wrote an article on McGrath for Vogue Magazine; so grateful i had to tear the pages off my aunt's elephantine copy. I'm not that evil though, i still made sure i asked for her permission. So i humbly brought home the pages kept together by a green paperclip.