Levitskaia — Nikita Levitskiy

Levitskaia — Text parallax — the service title drifts over a photograph that steps back — Text parallax — the service title drifts over a photograph that steps back

Overview

Permanent make-up is a trust purchase — the work stays on a face for a year. So the site reads like an editorial: warm nude paper, photographs at full bleed, restraint instead of gold and glitter.

There is no admin panel and no CMS. The owner's Google Calendar is the database: working blocks minus busy events become 30-minute slots with a 15-minute buffer, 60 days ahead, in Prague time. The wizard walks service → day → time → contacts, validates with zod, and confirms with a Resend email carrying an .ics file.

Both languages are first class — CZ and RU dictionaries, hreflang, localised OG — and every photograph goes through an in-house pipeline of presets from 800 to 2400 px, so a 4K editorial frame does not cost six megabytes on a phone.

Explore the real thing/demos/levitskaia/

The complete site runs inside this portfolio — click through every page.

Signature animation

How it works.

Every service owns 150vh of scroll. The photograph is sticky and full-screen; the headline drifts over it and flares only in the middle of the block — reading it feels like turning a page in a magazine.

01
150vh per service
Each service gets its own block. The photo is pinned full-screen and the scroll inside the block is the timeline.
02
The photo steps back
Scale runs 1 → 0.88 while opacity fades: the image recedes instead of sliding away.
03
The title drifts
A clamp(52px, 10vw, 128px) headline moves y 220 → −220 across the frame, opening to full opacity only at the centre ([0.2, 0.45, 0.72]).
04
Cinematic hero
Above it all the hero headline rises line by line from under a mask — y 110% → 0, 0.9 s, stagger 0.12, on the house ease.

Levitskaia — Hero — each line rises from under its own mask — Hero — each line rises from under its own mask

Levitskaia — mobile — Hero — each line rises from under its own mask

Explore the real thing/demos/levitskaia/

Features06

01
Google Calendar as the CMS
Working blocks minus busy events become bookable slots: 30-minute step, 15-minute buffer, 60-day horizon, Europe/Prague.
02
Booking wizard
Service → day → time → contacts, validated with zod and confirmed by email with an .ics attachment.
03
No admin panel
The owner runs the studio from the calendar app she already uses. Nothing new to learn, nothing extra to log into.
04
CZ + RU
A full dictionary, hreflang and localised OG images — not a translation bolted on at the end.
05
DockNav on mobile
Navigation is a pill dock with a layoutId indicator that slides between sections instead of jumping.
06
Photo pipeline
Every shot is rendered to presets from 800 to 2400 px and served by width, not by hope.