CHAPTER TEN
BEAUTY EDITORIAL
10
Lily — Priscilla’s Models
LOOSE THREADS do not signal collapse. They signal movement.
They invite the hand back in, to pull tighter, to knot differently, to imagine another silhouette entirely.
Across the series, beauty is treated as an active state rather than a fixed ideal. Metallic accents hover like punctuation against bare skin.
Graphic strokes interrupt softness. Monochrome frames heighten the dialogue between shadow and gloss, absence and presence.
What appears minimal is layered with intent, a collage of memory, desire, instinct and reinvention.
It lives in the space between,
what is lost and what remains.
Hair falls across the face like a curtain half drawn, obscuring and revealing in the same breath. Each texture, each layer becomes a map of transformation.
A blunt fringe exposes the brow with surgical clarity. Wet lengths cling to the skull, then dissolve into air. Nothing is purely decorative. Every detail carries the weight of becoming.
There is vulnerability in this unraveling. A suggestion that to evolve, something must first loosen.
Silhouettes blur; light grazes unarmoured skin, luminous and unguarded. The face is not perfected into stillness. It is allowed to hold contradictions.
Fragile, yet unbowed.
The self here is never static. It is edited, undone, redrafted. In this tension between rupture and repair, something honest emerges. Beauty is discovered not in seamlessness, but in process.
Loose Threads is not about completion but about continuation; it lives in the fibres that fray at the edges, only to be rewoven into shapes that feel both unexpected and inevitable.
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer, Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour
Eyes - Ingot gel eyeliner - espresso, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Hair - La Biosthetique styling fluid & Long Hair Weightless Conditioning Oil
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer, Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour
Eyes - Ingot gel eyeliner - espresso, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer
Contour - Haus labs cream contour, Lips - Violette_FR Bisou balm in Callisson
Hair - Kevin Murphy Free.Hold, La Biosthetique Long Hair Refreshing Dry Shampoo
Eyes - Natasha Denona cool toned eye sculpt palette & Victoria Beckham eyeshadow palette in Navy Noir
Lips - Makeup forever lip pencil - endless cacao & Charlotte Tilbury lipstick - Victoria
Hair - Kevin Murphy Free.Hold & Kevin Murphy Un.Tangled
“It lives in the space between, what is lost and what remains”
“It lives in the space between, what is lost and what remains”
Eyes - Natasha Denona cool toned eye sculpt palette & Victoria Beckham eyeshadow palette in Navy Noir
Lips - MAC lip liner - Vino & MAC lipstick in Honeylove
Hair - La Biosthetique styling fluid, La Biosthqtique Long Hair Weightless Conditioning Oil, Kevin Murphy Night.Shift
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer
Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer, Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour
Eyes - Ingot gel eyeliner - espresso, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Lips - Shiseido ModernMatte Powder Lipstick - Whisper
Hair - La biosthetique styling fluid Kevin Murphy Night.Shift, La biosthetique Structuring Foam
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer, Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour
Eyes - Ingot gel eyeliner - espresso, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer
Contour - Haus labs cream contour, Lips - Violette_FR Bisou balm in Callisson
Base - Merit beauty complexion stick & Haus labs concealer, Contour - Makeup by Mario cream contour
Eyes - Ingot gel eyeliner - espresso, Lips - Lanolips 101 ointment
Lips - Shiseido ModernMatte Powder Lipstick - Whisper
Hair - La biosthetique styling fluid Kevin Murphy Night.Shift, La biosthetique Structuring Foam
Feat. LILY AND ZUZA @ PRISCILLA’S
Photographer: JESSE-LEIGH ELFORD | Hair: MATTHEW ASHTON | Makeup: LUCY JACKSON | WORDS: Bodene Mckibbin
Photographer: JESSE-LEIGH ELFORD | Hair: MATTHEW ASHTON | Makeup: LUCY JACKSON | WORDS: Bodene Mckibbin