Lacey Banghard brings a slow-burning magnetism to Ice Please, introducing herself with a drink in hand and a gaze that could melt the ice right out of the glass. She leans over the tiled kitchen counter in a sheer black mesh bra that leaves very little to the imagination, her long dark waves tumbling over bare shoulders as she peers up at the camera with eyes that are all heat and invitation. The large wine glass with its ice-cold lemon slice sits before her like a centrepiece, and the warm golden light coming through the arched wooden windows wraps the entire kitchen in an atmosphere of private luxury.
As the set unfolds, the barely-there bra gives way to bare skin, and Lacey leans forward with the same cool confidence she started with, the drink still in its place on the counter beside her as though she has all the time in the world. Smiling openly in the last frame, her long dark hair cascading down her sides and the lush garden just visible through the arched windows behind her, she makes the whole set feel like a stolen moment in the most beautiful kitchen imaginable. Ice Please delivers exactly what the title promises: something chilled, something heady, and something that warms you all the way through.