Lovely Lana
Winter white is a lovely hue and so is a deep golden bronze, but what happens when neither is appropriate? The transition from pale winter skin to glowing summer sheens is a trick one for beauty fans in the springtime months. The lovely Lana Kasheva, the star of our Siwy Summer photo shoot, helped demonstrate some of the key makeup products necessary to exist beautifully in the transition between pale winter ice queen and tawny summer beauty without resorting to spring Easter Bunny pastels.
We started with a quick once over with Vincent Longo's Water Canvas Creme-To-Powder Foundation in Soft Amber for that perfect middle ground that is natural skin somewhere between matte and moisture. But the real trick to transitional beauty is our favorite new product Borghese's Splendore. We find most shimmer products have an unfortunate tendency towards disco ball sparkle even with the light application. Splendore actually lives up to its extraordinary claims of imparting a subtle glow while brightens any complexion. And while we are naturally skeptical of beauty copy involving light-diffusing liquid camouflages and other "miracles of marketing" we can genuinely say that Splendore is a girl's secret spring weapon for adding glow without resorting to bronzers, blush or any other extreme color solutions.
We dabbed it over Lana's cheekbones and then blended the remainder over her entire face. With the Splendore we also found we significantly reduced our unfortunate desire to over-apply blush, simply subtly applying one sweep of Benefit's plummy Dallas to each cheek did the trick.
On Lana's eyes we went with the classic MAC's Eye Kohl in Costa Riche to complement her natural brunette. We lined her lower and upper lids with the soft brown to avoid the harshness of darker hues while still giving her that subtle "eye opening" that good eye liner gives. We applied a light dusting of MAC's classic pigmented eye shadow in Daisychain.
Last but certainly not least we gave her a liberal coating of Kiehl's Lipgloss in French Rose from our own stash just because the color was so perfect. Lana was complaining of classic post winter dry lips so the moisturizing formula of the gloss with Mango and Grape Seed, Rose Hips, and Apricot Kernal was just the ticket. And miraculously one coat lasted all the way through the two hours of our Siwy summer shoot. How is that for an endorsement?
