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I'm reading a book on how to draw manga style characters, and I came across
this sentence. It is part of a larger block explaining how to make a character
look the same from all different angles.

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> 同{おな}じ髪型{かみがた}といっても、どこから分けてあるか、どんな感{かん}じのカーブで、みけんならみけんのどこまでかかるのか、などに注意{ちゅうい}をはらって描{か}きます

I think I understand the general meaning of the whole sentence, but the part
where it says `みけんならみけん` puzzles me a bit. I get that it's talking about where
to draw the brow of the face and how far across it goes (`「どこまでかかるのか」`).

As I understand it, なら is something like "being the case that", so I translate
`みけんならみけん` as "the brow _as the_ brow", but that seems weird to me. How would
the brow act as anything other than the brow when drawing a face? My
translation must be wrong because it would be redundant to talk about the brow
as the brow.

What is `なら` doing in this context?
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What is the meaning of 「...みけんならみけん...」?
"Even if it's the same hairdo, you draw keeping close attention on where to
part it from, what sort of feeling of the curves, and [for/in the case of] the
area between the eyebrows how far across to go of that area, etc."

> みけんなら  
>  =[for/in the case of] the area between the eyebrows
>
> みけんのどこまでかかるのか  
>  =how far across to go of the area between the eyebrows
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