Mood Therapy
Four emotional states, translated into color, texture, and presence, because feeling something deeply deserves a visible form.
There are days when makeup is simply preparation. And then there are days when it becomes interpretation.
A brush becomes a translator. Color becomes a sensation. Texture becomes atmosphere. The face stops being something to perfect and becomes something to express.
Emotion is not abstract—it lives in the body. It warms the skin, sharpens the gaze, softens the mouth, shifts posture, changes energy. We physically become what we feel. This editorial explores what happens when that transformation is made intentional. When beauty doesn’t just enhance features, but embodies mood.
Each look is an emotional state given visual structure. Not characters. Not personas. Just feelings that are amplified, honored, and made visible.
Head over heels: the warmth of emotional surrender
Jerick Sanchez
Love brightens perception, softens resistance, and fills the body with a kind of luminous vulnerability. You don’t just experience love. You radiate it.
This look captures that sensation of emotional warmth rising to the surface.
Blush is placed high and visibly across the face, stretching over the nose like a physical flush that cannot be contained. It mirrors the body’s instinctive response to affection—the rush, the heat, the openness. A delicate heart detail doesn’t just symbolize romance, but also signals emotional transparency, the choice to be seen without armor.
The eyes feel expansive and receptive. Long lashes create a softened gaze. Brows lose sharp definition, allowing tenderness to lead the expression.
Lips melt between pink and red, diffused rather than defined, like emotion still unfolding. A glossy finish gives the mouth a fresh, almost breathless quality, the shimmer of something newly felt.
Loose curls and ribbon accents add weightlessness. Nothing is rigid. Nothing is controlled. Everything feels buoyant, like being carried by feeling rather than directing it.
This is love as atmosphere.
Beauty of being: The calm of being held by yourself
Jerick Sanchez
Self-love is not dramatic. It is steady. It is built through repetition, through care that is quiet but consistent. It is the emotional experience of safety within your own presence.
This look reflects beauty shaped by nurturing rather than transformation.
The skin glows with softness that suggests attention, not effort. Dewiness here feels lived-in, like the visible result of rest, hydration, and patience. Nothing is concealed. Nothing is forced. The complexion is supported, not corrected.
Warm, toasted tones sweep naturally across cheeks, nose, and eyelids in one continuous wash, creating a sense of harmony rather than contrast. Everything feels cohesive, grounded, integrated.
The lips remain close to their natural tone, gently enhanced but never redefined. There is no urgency to change, only a quiet affirmation of what already exists.
Silky, softly structured hair paired with a skincare headband references ritual. The daily, intimate practice of tending to yourself. The small acts that accumulate into emotional stability.
This is what self-love looks like when it is embodied, and not just performed. Not declared, but quietly sustained.
Out to play: The joy of unrestricted expression
Jerick Sanchez
It’s about time we bring back play. Play is freedom in motion. It is curiosity without outcome, expression without evaluation. When we allow ourselves to play, identity becomes fluid, experimental, alive.
This look celebrates beauty as exploration.
Color appears boldly and unapologetically across the eyes: sky blue and pink existing in full saturation, refusing subtlety. These shades are not blended into neutrality. They remain vibrant, visible, expressive. Emotion, here, is celebrated.
The lips are bubblegum pink. They catch light with every movement. Scale becomes part of the fun. More is simply more.
Double bun curls add structure to the playfulness. The overall effect feels kinetic, like movement captured mid-laugh.
This look is driven by curiosity. What happens if I try this? What happens if I go further? What happens if beauty becomes joy for its own sake?
Adventure, in beauty, is permission. Permission to experiment. Permission to be visible. Permission to create without needing to justify.
Dare to rise: The commanding presence of being unapologetically you
Jerick Sanchez
Power is not always loud. Sometimes, it is deliberate and quiet. It lives in the certainty of occupying space without hesitation.
This look embodies unwavering self-possession.
The eyes are sharply defined through exaggerated double-lined eyeliner. The gaze feels direct, intentional, unyielding. Defined lids add dimension and depth that shift with light, suggesting complexity beneath control.
The lips are sculpted with precision, darkly defined, and richly layered. Nothing is diffused. Nothing is accidental. Every edge is deliberate.
Hair is slicked back, revealing the face fully, uninterrupted. A single tendril softens the severity just enough to create tension and strength that still moves.
Empowerment, in its core, is presence. The calm certainty of knowing who you are and allowing that knowledge to shape how you exist in the world.
The face as emotional canvas
Together, these four looks form a spectrum of feeling. These are just some of the states we move through, sometimes within the same day. Makeup does not create these emotions. It simply gives them form.
When beauty becomes mood translated, the mirror stops being a place of correction. It becomes a place of recognition.
Art direction by Nicole Almero. Beauty direction by Leira Aquino and Lia Cruz. Makeup by Lala Flores and Booya. Hair by Cats Del Rosario and JA Feliciano. Styling by Jia Torrato and Niña Cuyana of Qurator.
