“I applied to FIT so I could move to New York. My dad’s in the Air Force, so this was after moving every two to four years for most of my childhood: Ohio, Germany, New Mexico, California, Texas—you name it. I started out studying fashion business, but it was a lot more corporate and numbers-heavy than I’d assumed. Then I took a film class and fell in love with it.
I do a lot of self-shooting and creative direction for brands like Chanel, J.Crew, Aritzia, and Tommy Hilfiger. I had also done a few, couple-of-minute short films and music videos when Tae Park—the designer behind her self-named brand—asked me to film something for a collection launch. I think she assumed that it would be two minutes, but I built a deck with an entire visual world, from the spaces to the clothing. She was game so I wrote a script, and the film, A Place Between Us, ended up being 23 minutes. It’s about a girl who reconnects with one of her childhood friends as they spend a couple of days together in a countryside villa. We shot it in the summer of 2024, and because my producer wanted to submit it to the festival circuit, we finally released it in June.
The throughline, whether I’m making my own films or creating content for a client, is romanticism. I like worlds that are serene, soft, and almost mundane. I approach beauty in a similar way now. In college, I wore hot pink eyeshadow for my passport photo, and I dressed how Disney Channel stars dressed in 2012. Now I like to wear berry and deeper blushes and lips—but only when I’m in Europe. In LA I reach for peachier shades. And lately, I’ve been loving a softer pink in New York.
If I do a full base, I’ll wear Chanel’s Les Beiges foundation in BO33 for good coverage that actually looks like skin. Sometimes I mix in a couple of drops of Rhode’s Glazing Milk to make it more like a skin tint. I struggle with finding concealers that match because I have an olive skin tone, so a lot of formulas pull either too orange or pink. The NARS Radiant Creamy concealer in Nougatine has been working for me, but I also love Glossier’s Stretch concealer in Medium 1.
Then I bronze. I really like Hourglass’s Unlocked Ambient Lighting Edit in Swan [Editor’s note: discontinued], but I’ve been loving the new Westman Atelier Sun Tone bronzer duo in Soleil Parfait 2. I mix both colors together and just go in—I have no system for anything. [Laughs] I wish I did because sometimes I look back at makeup looks and wish I knew how I created them. I also use Westman Atelier’s contour sticks like a bronzer. Actually, I have a cool-toned Make Up For Ever lip liner that I use to contour my nose and around my mouth. Again, no system. [Laughs]
I love wearing blush right in the middle of my cheeks. I usually reach for Chanel’s cream pots, but I also have their Les Beiges powder in Rose Polaire [Editor’s note: discontinued]. I don’t always layer them, but if the color isn’t exactly what I want, I’ll add a little powder.
Then it’s eyes. I love the little Westman Atelier eye pods in Vanilla, Beige, and Café Crème. I still use the Tarte Amazonian Clay palette I bought in high school—is that bad? [Laughs] It’s just a bunch of brown shades that work well together. I also love doing cat eyes. I’ll start with something like Chanel’s Espresso eyeliner and finish the little wing with Kraum’s Micro Saber, Micro Square, and Micro Angle brush.
I love the blurred contour lips that Nina Park does. I’ll start with Make Up For Ever’s Endless Cacao or Summer Fridays’ Almond lip stain to define the edges, blur them out with Kraum’s Micro Swab brush, and then go over them again with a pinky-brown liner like Chanel’s Nude Brun. I fill everything in with Merit’s Signature Lip Blush in Vendôme before dabbing a pinky or peachy shade like Chanel’s Rouge Coco Baume in Chilling Pink in the center. I don’t usually wear lip gloss, but if I do, I like Clarins’ Lip Comfort oil in Honey. It smells like the lip glosses I used to get at Limited Too—that’s literally half the reason I bought it—and it has a good comfortable doe-foot applicator.
For brows, I really like how tiny the wand is on Refy’s pencil—I use shade Dark—and I usually tweeze them myself. I recently started getting lash lifts at Hanare Organic Japanese Spa—Sannie’s amazing—because my lashes are really straight and I wanted to skip curling them every morning. I go about once a month, but I do hot Pilates and spend a lot of time in saunas and steam rooms so the heat definitely messes with them.
If I’m going to an event, I’ll set everything with Pat McGrath’s Sublime Perfection powder in Yellow. Otherwise, I like Saie’s translucent Airset powder for everyday, and I recently tried Chanel’s loose powder in 50 and I love it. I don’t use setting sprays because they make me too shiny. I learned that the hard way—premiere cameras are so unforgiving.
I’m less playful with my skin because it’s super reactive when I use the wrong thing. If that happens, I go back to using only La Roche-Posay products for a couple of days or weeks. But if my skin’s looking and feeling OK, I wash my face in the morning with Biologique Recherche’s Lait VIP O₂ cleanser. It was recommended by Maven Sessoms, my facialist at Rescue Spa, because it’s super gentle. Then I tone with Isla’s Elixir to make sure my skin is really clean. It smells so good—I’d love it as a candle. I also have a bunch of Skin1004 serums that I switch between, but honestly, I’m not too sure what any of them do, but they feel really good on my skin. [Laughs]
If I’m going to wear makeup, I use Tatcha’s Water Cream as a primer. Otherwise, I just use La Roche-Posay’s Toleriane moisturizer. I follow that with the Luminous Dewy Skin mist from Tatcha. It has the most incredible mister—it’s so fine—and leaves a really pretty glow. So does Rhode’s Glazing Milk.
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I don’t wear sunscreen every day because I don’t love how makeup sits over it. Maybe I just haven’t found the right one, but Skin1004’s Hyalu-Cica SPF 50 is water-based so it doesn’t pill when I use it with the Water Cream since that’s water-based, too.
At night, I use Peach & Lily’s oil cleanser to take off my makeup before going in with the Lait VIP O₂ cleanser again. If I feel like my skin can handle it, I’ll use Biologique Recherche’s P50 PIGM 400, which is meant to exfoliate and brighten. I also use their Iso-Placenta serum. It says it’s regenerating, but more than anything, I find it really soothing.
I put iS Clinical’s Active serum on my spots. I wouldn’t use it all over my face because it gives you that cool, tingly sensation, almost like peppermint essential oil. But I always notice some sort of difference overnight.
I have my skincare products down. I have my makeup products down. But hair products? I’m so lost. I ask what shampoo I should be using every time I get trims with Evanie Frausto, and I still don’t really know. Lately I have Nécessaire’s rosemary shampoo and conditioner at home, but if I’m at the gym, I use whatever's there—for now that’s Le Labo. I’m better with dry shampoos. Oribe, Living Proof, and Crown Affair all have good ones. Crown Affair’s is fun because it comes with a brush and smells amazing.
I’ve had long hair forever. I've definitely gotten the itch to do something, but I’ve settled on a length and style that I know I like best. The last time I had a dramatic cut was when I was seven and got a bob. I cut it down to my shoulders in college, but now Evanie just trims the ends every six months or so—he works with Sabrina Carpenter, Jennie, and so many other people so he’s a hard guy to book. He gave me fake bangs that I’m obsessed with because I go back and forth between really wanting bangs and shorter layers in the front to wanting my hair one length. I just tie my hair back, gel it down, and clip them in.
I think the most important thing for long hair is brushing. I have a Mason Pearson brush that I use at night. The boar bristles help distribute your hair’s natural oils while being really gentle, and I’ve definitely noticed a difference in my ends since using it.
I must say that I really like spraying my hair with perfumes. I switch between two: Tabacco Toscano from Santa Maria Novella and Paris-Venise from Chanel. I love powder-y scents and Paris-Venise really nails it. It reminds me a bit of the baby perfume Bvlgari used to make—I gifted a bottle I found online to a friend’s baby. For a more standard application, I randomly bought the Heretic x Nosferatu collab. For lack of a better word, it’s a strange smell—sort of like a damp candle—but it’s a great scent to layer. And I love the Dries Van Noten perfume called Soie Malaquais. The bottle is so beautiful—the top is purple and the bottom looks like blue fine China.
I have bare, short nails right now, but if I wear color, I either go for a nude-ish pink in the summer or a dark red in the winter. I generally like doing them myself because I’m so particular about the shape. Manicures also take so long. My thinking is that if I mess up, it doesn’t really matter—at least I didn’t pay $60 to get it done.”
—as told to Daise Bedolla
Photographed by Shana Trajanoska at Nine Orchard in New York on April 6, 2026