Shannon Thornton

Shannon Thornton (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress best known for her role as Keyshawn on the Starz series P-Valley (2020–present). Quotes I'm really big about investing in facials and chemical peels and stuff like that to keep my skin clear. I’m acne prone, it's oily. Every month we had so much makeup and with the dancing you're sweating, and then they're putting makeup on top of that. And we're working 16-hour days sometimes, so I was having breakouts. And to calm that down a facial was very much needed and it made such a difference. That, and diet helps a lot with my skin. Staying away from dairy really helped with those hormonal breakouts around the chin and jawline. It's funny because for the mood board for Mississippi the inspiration was a lot of photos of me. They had pulled photos from my Instagram account. So I'm like okay, that's easy. For Mississippi, I had a conversation with my makeup artist Parra Thomas, and she's amazing. I had an idea of how I wanted Mississippi to look. On the show, I played her very young and very childlike so I wanted her eyes to appear larger than what they are. So we always put color on the waterline to make her eyes appear bigger. I love a nude lip and to have fun with eye shadow. So the nude lip was pretty consistent throughout the first season, and you just see her playing around a lot with cut creases and little sparkles. We'll play around with glitter and [Thomas] will add little stones on my eyebrow, or something like that for fun. I really love beauty marks, so we added a couple of beauty marks on my face. I think for the mood, they wanted her to look very doll-like, so that was the goal there, and I think we achieved it. For me, I don't think I'm as heavy on the makeup. I like to start off with a dewy face. I really love a natural look, especially in the summer, it's all about skin for me. And if anything, I'll pencil in my eyebrows and put on some mascara and lip gloss and I'm fine. And maybe some shimmer powder to highlight my cheekbones and the bridge of my nose. If I want to go out and look glamorous I'll do something more bronzy, I love browns and golds. I love just looking like a chocolatey goddess -- shimmery and pretty. Almost all of my beauty products are Fenty Beauty by Rihanna. On set, I constantly asked for Body Lava all over my body. I've watched Rihanna put [new Fenty Skin] on her face and use the cleanser and everything. It looks like it's so good; I'm really excited to try it. I really like Maybelline mascara in blackest black. I love this Black-owned brand that is also vegan, called Nolaskinsentials. And I love cocoa butter for the smell of it. We're doing a lot of it, but we all have body doubles. We went into what's pretty much stripper bootcamp as soon as we found out that the show had gotten picked up to series. We had been training privately with dance instructors for about five months. And then once we got to Atlanta, we trained again throughout for another five months, almost every single day. I dislocated my knee the first dance rehearsal in Atlanta. That's how intense it is, and we're doing a lot of it. We got pretty good. One of the biggest things I learned from being on this set about womanhood is how beautiful and empowering it is to own your sexuality and how it's okay to be sexy. We're playing sex workers and there's this huge stigma behind the word stripper, when in reality this is labor for these women. It's a job just like any other job. I was worried before taking on this role about being judged. But when I just allowed myself to enjoy the moment, allowed myself to be sexy and not worry about what other people thought, there was something very freeing about that. "'P-Valley' Star Shannon Thornton Shares The Secrets To Her Glowing Beauty" (August 17, 2020) External links nm4538831 Category:People from the United States Category:Actresses from Connecticut Category:Living people Category:1987 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1980s