Last year I recruited the insanely talented Eco Makeup Artist, Educator and friend, Jessa Blades of  Blades Natural Beauty and the best-in-the-biz photographer Colleen Picciotti of Dyad Photography, to spend a day shooting 4 beautiful and totally different looking women, using only natural and organic makeup. The results were phenomenal. Unlike any of the shoots I had worked on as a model over the years, everyone looked absolutely radiant both on camera and off! Conventional camera makeup looks clownish in real-life while real-life makeup usually doesn’t photograph well. Our photos are a testament to the miracle of how, despite the myths, natural makeup actually looks better than conventional. It makes your skin look healthy and “real’, makes your eyes sparkle and at the end of the day, it even protects and nourishes your skin. But don’t take it from me, just take a look!

For the first of our 4-part series with Jessa Blades, we have our model Justine. Justine is my personal trainer of several years. She’s also a reiki practitioner. We wanted to give her a makeup look that was natural-ish but not blah – something that would make Justine’s skin glow and eyes pop but also not look too “made-up”
Jessa The Genius nailed it by using products that were hydrating and wouldn’t crease or set into (hypothetical) fine lines :

What she used:
On Face: Nvey Eco Moisturizing Liquid Foundation in 513
On Cheeks: RMS Beauty Lip2Cheek in Illusive

On Eyes: Alima Pure Luminous Shimmer Eyeshadow in Glow and Alima Pure Pearluster Eyeshadow in Grace with Nvey Eco Organic Mascara in Black

On Lips: Nvey Eco Organic Lipstick in 367 and Lip Lustre in Cristal

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