Applauding Fashion Week’s yearlong end, hand models say their lives are more limited than those tall, skinny runway mannequins. Like:

Flick light switches with your elbow. Dial with pencil eraser ends. Pull a bathing suit with the balls of fingers. Blanket sharp instruments with a sponge. Cats scratch, so don’t stroke with bare hands. Never touch soap, wash dishes, go near water without rubber gloves.

Don’t dust or empty wastebaskets without cotton gloves. “Dirt becomes ingrained. A nail chips. Wear gloves to bed.” Remembered one: “When a grease speck hit my pinky, no makeup hid it. My close-up got canceled. That tiny roast beef cost me a fortune.”

Busy days they redo polish as often as eight times. Even in taxis between bookings. One offered me her wrist to shake because “a long middle nail could come off in your palm.”

Theater blues

Wynton Marsalis, overseeing “After Midnight,” B’way’s coming musical about the old Cotton Club’s old days, prepping Fantasia with Billie Holiday records . . . Somebody said Dr. Oz helped rehabilitate Elizabeth Smart. Plenty rehabilitated, she’s great. Just doing his show Oct. 11 . . . The Knicks’ No. 1 fan Spike Lee a special guest at Thursday’s Police Athletic League Sportsnite.

AS of Oct. 1, Bank Street Theater, Eric Bogosian doing monologues from his new book “100.” It has 100 from his solo off-B’way shows . . . More October. New play “Becoming Dr. Ruth.” Debra Jo Rupp plays Dr. Ruth . . . Please note Frankie and Johnnie’s Steakhouse, West 37th, owns Frankie and Johnnie’s, West 45th, plus Frankie and Johnnie’s in Rye, which was named Restaurant of the Year.

Buzz on Kelly

Kelly Rutherford lighting up Deivie fashion show at Kiara Horwitz’s p.r. office . . . Martha Stewart, assistant and bodyguard at OTG’s Empire Tavern, La Guardia Airport, ordering coffee via an iPad . . . Karen Ziemba swinging around an Upper West Side lamppost . . . Nobody said it but somebody should: How about Dennis Rodman handling the nonfuture of Anthony Weiner who’s still making his concession speech.

Mark transformed

Catching up moneywise, Mark Wahlberg’s new “Transformers” will pay him $18 mil . . . Catching up twerkingwise, TV advertisers were primed in advance for the behind twitching of go-the-extra-Miley Cyrus . . . Artwise, late October to February, the Morgan’s presenting ­DaVinci drawings . . . Musicwise: Artists with the most Top 10s? Red Hot Chili Peppers. And with the most No. 1s? Red Hot Chili Peppers.

IF best-selling “Killing Lincoln” wasn’t enough, History channel’s Brad Meltzer wrote “History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.” It includes John Wilkes Booth’s supposed will . . . How to stay trim after 1,000 magazine covers? Says Christy Turlington (Mrs. Ed) Burns: Simple. Brisk 6 a.m. walk, yoga and join a running team. OK?

Shoes & nudes

Brit handbag-maker L.K. Bennett created “The Rosamund Bag” after Rosamund Pike. Sells someplace for $600 . . . Taking no cell to work “Boardwalk Empire’s” Michael Shannon: “I talk to real actual breathing face-to-face people. Or get coffee and stare at doughnuts.” . . . Rarely comes up in conversation but Britney Spears, who walks naked at home, got named Honorary Nudist by the Irish Naturist Association.

Baldwin as smokin’ busboy

Studio 54 busboy in 1977 Alec Baldwin recalls: “In the upstairs dark bleacher area where people went for sex, playboys did anything for me to clear out and leave them alone. Hundred dollar tips to run a few blocks to get them exotic cigarettes. I took as long as possible. They’d tuck in shirts; women straighten dresses. I quit because it was making me too sexy. I couldn’t unwind afterwards.”

Buy Buy Baby store on Seventh Avenue has had the sign: “Open Monday to Friday from 9AM to 7PM. And on Saturday open from 9AM to 7PM.”

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.