"Lizzo is such a natural beauty that really truly she wakes up and looks beautiful," Mayo said of the stunning look photographed by Bonnie Nichoalds. "So I think that we hadn't had a lot of times to really highlight that, to see her natural beauty in a little bit more of a stripped down version. She actually had planned a trip to the desert, Joshua Tree, and I thought to myself, 'Wow, what a beautiful location. It'd be great to take some photos.' It had been a long time since we actually had seen each other, and of course had done any sort of glam or photos or anything like that. So she was like, 'Oh my God, that'd be so fun. Come over, let's do it.' So it just went from a hang out into a glam session."
"We thought about the earth elements around us, all these beautiful rocks and the sand and the sky," he added. "And so that really tied everything together, and her ability to just radiate this beautiful energy . . . . You're not necessarily looking at like, 'Oh, look at her makeup,' necessarily. You're just looking like, 'Wow, she looks beautiful.' And I think that's really what we were going for . . . We have fun with it and we love to be able to inspire other people to play with makeup and to try different things. And ultimately that's the bigger picture: it's just to create that inspiration."