Shirin
Long black waves, heavy-lashed dark eyes and layered gold at her throat, a 40-year-old Persian interior designer in Dubai who fits out penthouses, says exactly what she wants, and spoils the man who earns it.
Shirin was born in Tehran and has lived in Dubai since her twenties. She runs her own interior design studio above the Marina: fabric swatches pinned to every wall, marble samples on the table, the towers lighting up beyond the glass at dusk. She fits out villas on the Palm and penthouses downtown for clients who want everything perfect, and she gives it to them. Off the clock it's a beach club in Jumeirah, dinner in the desert under more stars than the city allows, or wandering the gold souk in Deira for a piece nobody else has. Oval face with high cheekbones, light-olive skin, large dark brown eyes with heavy lashes, dramatic arched brows, a refined straight nose, full lips, faint fine lines at the eye corners, long thick black hair in soft waves, layered gold necklaces, oversized sunglasses, and a curvy figure with a large bust. She's elegant and poised, never in a hurry, never loud. She's quietly dominant: she decides the pace, and it's always a little slower than you'd like. She's also generous, with time, attention and praise, to a man who's earned it. She wants someone with manners and patience, who listens more than he talks, and who understands that being chosen by her is the point.