Green Light: How to Wear This Color Without Hesitation
Consider this your go-signal to embrace color fearlessly. This story celebrates wearing green—especially on eye shapes too often left out of the mainstream makeup conversation.
Often seen as a “challenging” eye shape to work with, monolids have long been drawn over, taped, or even surgically altered to appear larger. But makeup artist Janica Cleto, who has monolids herself, says, “Personally, I prefer embracing one’s features.”
Giving this eye shape more room to work is just a matter of artistic adjustment. For this look, Cleto bleached the model’s brows to create more eyelid space and used the Louis Vuitton Ombres Eyeshadow Palette in 951 Force of Nature to craft a bold, graphic green eye. “I love extending this shape by putting emphasis on the shadow near the lash line,” she explains. “It gives a lift.” She also used a duo of Louis Vuitton Lipsticks to complete the look: the satin 102 Passport to Paris on the cheeks as blush and the matte 105 Nude Nécessaire on the lips.
Green, after all, is the color of transformation—a fearless reminder that beauty doesn’t need fixing or filters, just space to be seen.
Dookie Ducay
Art direction: Sacha Mancera. Photographer: Dookie Ducay, assisted by Jay Artales and Lou Fajardo. Makeup: Janica Cleto, assisted by Jandrey Cleto. Hair: Cats del Rosario. Model: Sally Valencia.
