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BEAUTY REPORTER
Clothing and jewelry, Poole’s own. Color Therapy nail polish in Ja-Cozy by Sally Hansen. Manicure: Madeline Poole. Hair: Zaiya Latt. Makeup: Cynthia Sobek. Photographed by Andrew Stinson.
efore nail artist Madeline Poole became a backstage regular at Stella McCartney and DKNY shows, she was an art-school graduate working in a Baltimore poster- restoration shop, repairing vintage Barnum & Bailey circus signs and navy recruitment
bulletins. “I spent my days fixing artifacts with teeny, tiny paintbrushes and realized I loved small-scale painting,” Poole says. But it wasn’t until she moved to Hollywood and watched a manicurist at work on the set of a fashion shoot that she scrapped her plans
to become a painter and enrolled in beauty school.
“It just clicked for me that I’d rather do miniature paintings on a live hand than on a lone, sad canvas,” says Poole, 30. Two nail-art books, a crazy-popular Instagram feed (@mpnails, if you don’t already follow her), and a few thousand manicures later, Poole landed the role of global color ambassador for Sally Hansen. Her latest project for the company is fine-tuning shades for the new Color Therapy line: 38 nude, pink, and jewel-tone polishes infused with argan and evening- primrose oils that sink into nails to keep them flexible and strong. Also key: The colors look as saturated on your fingertips as they do on salon and store shelves. “It was so frustrating to buy nail polishes that looked bright and opaque in the bottle only to find they were completely sheer or dull when I painted them on,” says
Poole. “With these polishes, what you see is what you get.” —CHLOE METZGER
From far left: A matte-and-chrome look by Poole, Sally Hansen
Color Therapy polish in Indiglow, an evil-eye design by Poole,
and Sally Hansen Color Therapy polish in Therapewter.
Kiss and Make Up
When Rocky and Apollo put competition aside, they crushed Clubber Lang in the third round (it’s not a spoiler if the movie came out in 1982). Beauty-world competitors, however—not so quick to join forces.
But two old friends, Too Faced cofounder Jerrod Blandino
and Kat Von D, are rewriting the rules. “I called her up and said, ‘Let’s do something that shows the world we’re better together,’” says Blandino. On the surface, the pairing isn’t the most likely: “There’s a lot of pink and glitter in the
Too Faced world, and there’s a lot of black in Kat Von D beauty,” says Von D. “But we both celebrate femininity in our own ways.” A standout of the union: a magnetized eye- shadow set (right) that includes six new shadow shades from each brand. Friendship for the win. —LEXI NOVAK
The Too Faced x Kat Von D Beauty Better Together Eyeshadow Palette Set will be available in late December.
42 ALLURE NOVEMBER 2016
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
MADELINE BPOOLE
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