from hair the shade of fire he 'd once seen in a painting and wondered if it truly existed in nature , a waterfall of silk his fingers itched to twist through , to a complexion of such clear olive that it offset the vividness of her hair and the lightness of her eyes , to features sculpted and aligned in such an unusual way that they screamed character and whispered sensuality , to curves and swells in the abundance and the distribution to answer his every specification .