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Words: Erin Reimel. Additional reporting: Kate Foster.
Photography: Steven Pan. Makeup: Violette. Styling: Katie Mossman
TEHYA ELAM
Elam has always loved her smattering of freckles. “My grandma
would say, ‘They’re angel kisses,’” says the model, who’s Irish,
black and Native American. But it’s her brows (or lack thereof )
that she considers her most unique feature. While she spent
the mornings during her younger years of high school drawing
arches on before leaving the house, by her senior years she
embraced her browless face. “They actually started to grow
in [recently],” says Elam. “It’s weird. I wish I did not have the
hair — it’s the opposite now.” Makeup artist Violette didn’t want
to hide a single bit of Elam’s skin. “Her face, to me, is like a
Botticelli painting,” she says. Instead, she traced a delicate
heart around her eye with white face paint (try Tom Ford Beauty
Shade and Illuminate Eye Kohl Duo in Soleil Blanc, $67).