Lana Del Rey wouldn’t exist without the internet; without plastic surgeons; without, perhaps, legions of fashion kids. All that makes her existence as it is seem completely unreal: a perfect simulacrum of our fake nostalgia for some midcentury, super-cinematic, long-before-digital beauty. It’s especially interesting when you consider how pretty it was when she was just Lizzie Grant. She didn’t need the surgery. She wanted it. That makes it seem perversely empowering, or else preternaturally sick. No matter how you look at her, you can’t forget her. And here, in our biweekly series, artist and illustrator Rose Broadbent draws her. Broadbent used all Gee Beauty products, available at Gee Beauty (2 Roxborough Ave., 416-486-0080), which–by the way–is the best place in the city to get Del Rey’s naturally (???) perfect brows.

And if you need to see the “Video Games” star to believe her, she’s playing at the Mod Club on November 30.

EYES and BROWS: Broadbent used Gee Beauty‘s “Twilight Garden” Signature Shadow Quad ($60.00) and “Silver” Pot Creme ($26.00) to shade those hazels. Brows were drawn on strong with Powderliner in “Chocolate” ($26.00).

LIPS: Voice like sugar, lips like Splenda. Here that hyper-pout is done in “Undressed” Micro Lipstick ($28.00) and highlighted with “White” Eye Pencil ($26.00).

SKIN: To get that filmic finish, Broadbent used “Light” Mineral Sheer Tint SPF 20 Foundation ($56.00) with a generous helping of “Lotus” Cremewear Blush ($27.00) and glimmers of “Pearl” Mineral Shadow ($24.00).

HAIR: Broadbent used “Yellow Diamond” (in the light?) Mineral Shadow ($24.00) with “Glitz” Eye Pencil $26.00.

Previously in Beauty Myth: Lauryn Hill, Cindy Sherman, Amelia Earhart.

Text by Sarah Nicole Prickett.