English Version | Holy Water

08 May 2024
By Esteban G. Villanueva

The Mother Nature Issue

When one thinks about it, everything starts and ends with water. Water gives, and water takes, and across our various beauty rituals it holds the position of most esteem. Whether your attraction for it is borderline sexual or your desire to repel it is your main priority, bask in its rarity, encapsulate yourself in its liquid sheen and cleanse your body of all and any sin.

Hydrosexual

Let them call you a hydromaniac, as what one most desires is not just the liquid itself, but to be one with the fluid of life. Bathe in it, enjoy it, feel it press against your tender, naked skin, and become one with the source of life itself. Like a nymph in the old times, devote yourself to the god of the thing you want the most.

No Tears Left To Cry

Come rain, thunder, storm, or heartbreak, this is a beauty meant to withstand the fiercest of elements and the saddest of emotions. While one might be subject to the perils of nature, the mood swings of the weather, the chaos of existence and the injuries of an unrequited love, like a statue in the ocean one shall remain standing strong and still. It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.

Freshly Washed

Clean springs, fresh skin, cleansed life. Pure as new, any and all sins washed away, and a trial of a scent that is as synthetic as it is real. Sometimes pureness is something one is, others it’s something one fakes. At the end of the day, purity lies in the eye of the beholder and as long as one looks fresh, smells new, and plays the part, who is anyone to know better?

Glass Kiss

Bestow on yourself the lips of a kiss that holds the immensity of the ocean itself within them. Shiny like molten sky and with a finish that is as liquid as freshly poured glass, they shine enough that the painter would see his own reflection on them, yet would never dare to touch as the thought of distributing such a perfect masterpiece is one only comparable to one of the seven deadly sins.

Akoya Blue

This is a reclamation of the color of water. No longer shall it be a synonym of sadness or despair, from now on, feeling blue shall be powerful, glistening, wonderful, and mesmerizing. Blue shall be beauty, blue shall be elegance, blue shall be grace. Blue shall be rare, as the blue akoya pearl, whose beauty is reserved to only a select few. Are you one of them?

Translated from the original on Vogue Portugal's Mother Nature issue, published May 2024. Full stories and credits in the print issue.