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By Elyssa Lee
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(InStyle) -- Five years after releasing her last multiplatinum album, and a year after having her first child, Shania Twain is still the one who can turn heads.
When the singer arrived on set in London to shoot the video for her new single, "I'm Gonna Getcha (Good)," designer and stylist Marc Bouwer says, "I thought she looked amazing, better than ever."
But in her video, Twain may not be quite so recognizable. The country diva has been made over as a space-age siren (two, in fact -- she plays dual roles). The clip, set in the year 3002, has a Blade Runner-meets-Barbarella look -- sort of, Twain says, like "a futuristic Bond movie."
Clothes
Since Shania plays two very different roles in this video, Bouwer created two looks that were completely opposite -- but totally rock and roll. One is a sexy lace catsuit that she wears with vampy makeup and big, flowing rock-chick hair. The other, a faux-leather biker suit. "Glamour goth," says Bouwer. "When we started thinking of a concept for the video, I envisioned her on a motorcycle on a highway, but the director suggested we go more futuristic. So we made her look like a superhero, like the outfit was armor. Convincing her to wear the helmet was, well, it took some convincing."
Face
Makeup artist Stacey Martin started with Twain's face, using MAC Matte applied with a large brush to her nose and cheeks and MAC Studio Tech foundation NC30 as a base. "I mix different colors together," says Martin. "I like to use highlight sticks in shiny pink and bronze." MAC Fresco Cream Colour Base was blended with fingers on the apples of her cheeks.
Eyes
"Shania's got dark green eyes, really wonderful color," says Martin. "But she had some allergy problems, so they were a bit teary," which, when mixed with bright lights and a wind machine, wreaked havoc with the eye makeup. "One day on the way to the shoot I came up with the idea of using waterproof mascara as both mascara and shadow." She used the back of her hand as a palette and took "gobs" of Bourjois Aqua Volume mascara in black and quickly brushed it on lids "because that stuff dries quickly" and into the crease, extending it just beyond the sides of the eyes to create a wing effect.
She then applied false lashes to give a feathered look and topped them with MAC Pro Lash Colour in Periwink-wink to make them blue black. She lined lips with Stripdown pencil, applied Lipglass in Lust in the center, and mixed Oyster Girl and Chai elsewhere on the lips (all by MAC).
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