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Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude

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Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude is a beauty editorial photographed by Team WhiteBalance and Jyothi Krishna with model Vidhya Vijayakumar, creative direction by Aseem Bobby and makeup by Parvathy Prajeev, published in the printed edition MALVIE Beauty Across Cultures 123. In the photographer's words: "It captures a woman who owns her presence with effortless confidence, where elegance is not about perfection but about authenticity, character, and strength."


From the printed edition: MALVIE Beauty Across Cultures 123


Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude is one of the editorials in MALVIE Beauty Across Cultures 123, the new printed edition of MALVIE Magazine, alongside Teisher, Blossom & Blush, Dark Waves and NightDay.


The printed edition will be available to order from our print partners MagCloud, Peecho and DPBee.



About Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude

The series is lit low and dramatic against a mottled dark-blue painted backdrop. Vidhya Vijayakumar wears her hair in fine braids studded with small pearls, a dusting of lilac on her eyelids, a few pearls placed on her cheekbones and large square gold hoop earrings. A shaggy dark faux-fur wrap sits low off her shoulders, with gold rings on her fingers.


The camera stays close and the poses are calm and direct: a look back over a bare shoulder, a hand raised to the head, a finger touching the lips, fists drawn up beside the face. Warm light picks out the skin and the gold against the cool blue background. Each frame rests on her steady, confident gaze.


Vidhya Vijayakumar in a dark faux-fur wrap looking over her bare shoulder against dark blue
Model sitting in profile in a faux-fur wrap, a hand with gold rings raised to her chin
Model with pearl-studded braids sitting in a faux-fur wrap, hands folded in her lap
Model looking back over a bare shoulder, square gold hoop earrings and braids
Model with one hand raised to her head and the other at her throat, in faux fur
Model with fists raised beside her face, pearls on her cheekbones
Model with her head tilted in a low faux-fur wrap, braids and gold earrings
Close-up of the model with a ringed hand at her shoulder and pearls on her cheek
Close portrait with a finger touching her lips, pearl-studded braids and lilac eye shadow
Model in an off-shoulder faux-fur wrap facing the camera against dark blue

Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude credits

Photographer: Team WhiteBalance @team_whitebalance

Photographer: Jyothi Krishna @jyothi_krishna_cm

Model: Vidhya Vijayakumar @_vidya_vijayakumar_

Creative Director: Aseem Bobby @aseembobby

Makeup Artist: Parvathy Prajeev @parvathy_prajeev


Unfiltered Elegance: Authentic Beauty and Attitude fashion credits

Wardrobe — Vidhya Vijayakumar

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