In the Flesh with Xandrea Lancaster

Hello and welcome to In the Flesh, a new column wherein Team Flesh asks members of the beloved Flesh community a few random (and, we hope, fun) questions. Meet Xandrea Lancaster, school teacher, native New Yorker, and one of the lovely faces of our new Pure Flesh Liquid Foundation.

1. What is your full name? Xandrea Lancaster
2. Where are you from? Queens, NY
3. What’s your shade of Flesh? Ganache
4. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Look at the time to calculate how long I have to get ready.
5. What is your signature beauty look? I love a natural, dewy finish with a subtle highlight on my cheekbones, nose and cupid’s bow.
6. Last book you read? "Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay 
7. What makes you laugh? I find humor in almost everything tbh which, as you may assume, isn’t always appropriate. 
8. What is your drink of choice? Cranberry Juice :)
9. What’s your mantra right now? “Life goes on”
10. What is your earliest beauty memory? Trying to shape my naturally thick eyebrows with a razor. I ended up shaving a huge gap between my brows at age 12 because I was tired of being bullied [for them]. 
11. Do you have a hidden talent? I can kind of sing .
12. What’s your greatest virtue? Being empathetic towards people because life is hard. 
13. What is your favorite nude painting? I don’t have one.
14. What advice would you give your younger self? “Stay away from people who don't care about your healing and well-being.”
15. What, besides sliced bread, is the best thing since sliced bread? A facial after a long week.
16. When do you feel most at home in your flesh? When I’m on the couch, candle lit, summer evening and cuddled up.
17. Is there anything else you want to tell us about yourself? I’m a hopeless romantic.