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fam. Today we're talking beauty secrets,
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healthy skin, and the changes that happen as we age.
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We're chatting with my queen,
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renowned makeup artist Priscilla Ono,
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because today we're asking for an Amika.
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Hi everyone. I'm so excited to be here.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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so makeup for me has pretty much been present in my life
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for a while. I was pretty young when I started dabbling
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I was a theater kid,
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so it just was part of the theater kid lifestyle.
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I have to ask for you,
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while growing up, did you always think of makeup as a
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way to express yourself and eventually make it your your career and
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work? Absolutely. You know,
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makeup has always been an escapism for me.
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It's always been something artistic,
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something that I grew up watching,
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you know, my tia is my mom.
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that's my grandma. My Ama,
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they love makeup. As a child,
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I remember stealing my Ama's makeup bag and locking myself in her
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bathroom, doing a full face of makeup,
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washing it off and then coming out like nothing happened.
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I just always loved it.
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It's always been in my life.
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I grew up watching it.
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I was raised actually by my grandmother,
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and she's first generation from Mexico.
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And it was really hard for her to let me do something
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artistic with my career.
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I actually didn't have a,
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a choice. She made a choice for me.
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She actually was like,
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You're going to be in the medical field.
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That's what you're going to do,
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you know? And so when I decided to be a makeup
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artist, it actually was a little hard for her,
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but it was like my mission to show her like,
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No, I can be successful even as an artist.
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But,, I do have to say she was always
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my muse and I always tell her that.
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So I'm like, even though you don't want me to do
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it at first, now she's super proud of me.
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You're my muse, you're the.
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The reason why I'm doing this,
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I always looked up to you and how beautiful you had your
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makeup and it was always something that inspired me.
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So yeah, it's been in my life since a child.
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I love that your abuelita has,
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although it didn't start,
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you know, fully supportive,
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she's been crucial and important to kind of this journey of yours
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Priscilla, you've worked with a lot of brands.
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How has working with them changed your view on beauty and inclusivity
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for everyone? Oh my God,
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working with all these brands,
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especially right now in the present moment that we're in,
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where a lot of brands are so much more aware of being
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inclusive when it comes to everything from your background where you come
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from,, to your skin tone,
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it's something that actually is very rewarding for me to
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work with brands that are aware of things like that.
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I love my partnership that I have with Ponds currently.
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I feel like they are very inclusive when it comes to making
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sure that everyone is seen and heard,
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especially with your skin needs,
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and it's so special to me.
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I love working. With brands that I actually have a connection
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with, and I actually won't work with a brand unless I
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have some type of connection.
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It has to be something.
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So, how has your Mexican background influenced your style of makeup
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just growing up like watching my Tias with the darker lip liners
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and the the the thin brows and I,
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I think I, I pretty much rely on all of that
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influence in the makeup that I do today,
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especially right now, there's such a big trend with like darker
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lip liner and like a lighter lip,
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like a 90s nude lip.
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And I feel like I am a pro at it now because
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I've been doing it for so many years since I was a
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having like these, you know,
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my Mexican background growing up in Los Angeles with,
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you know, my family and even when I went to school
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With all brown and black people.
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So I definitely know what it's like like for like these trendy
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like now, darker lip liner,
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thin brows, like that was like the style and it still
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is today, and I love that.
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I love that everything kind of comes around full circle.
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You're like, I've been doing that.
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Yeah, exactly. And how do you think the beauty industry
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in general helps women of color feel more confident and beautiful?
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By giving them their options,
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by giving them their shades,
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their tones, I think that the beauty industry right now is
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very open ears and aware that now we have to make sure
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that we're paying attention to what is needed because that's at the
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end of the day is going to give them more sales.
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So that's a win-win for everybody.
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So comment on those posts on on the makeup brands and the
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skincare brands, like.
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those comments because they're listening,
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they're watching. They're reading and they have a team just designated
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what are they asking for?
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We need to come out with that,
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you know. I have to ask lastly,
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who is a fierce woman who has mentored or inspired you in
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your life? I have so many,
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but I have to say it's Maya Mala.
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She definitely gave me my first.
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Boost of confidence when it came to being a Latina.
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you're a woman, you're a Latina,
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you have to work extra hard because you're both of those things
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I feel like because I had that in my head again
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I worked my butt off and that's why I think I
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am where I am now is because People can see that I
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have a good work ethic and then I'm very passionate about what
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I do and it doesn't matter where you come from,
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it doesn't matter your background.
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It matters your heart and peer,
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how much passion you put into something.
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Absolutely. And you've worked with some like.
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Really big stars and you get to work with them on their
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makeup and look like I,
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I believe Rihanna and Kali Uchis are some of your your clients
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How does working with them inspire you and your career?
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Oh my gosh, so much,
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especially like Kali Uchis.
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I actually just worked with her for Latin Grammys and she looked
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beautiful, by the way.
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She, she's a gorgeous girl and from the inside out and
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just working with her.
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It's great because, you know,
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when they're sitting in the chair,
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they're also sharing light with you.
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They're also sharing their insight with their thinking,
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their thoughts behind life and the way they,
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you know, that they perceive life.
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And Holly is such a light when it comes to just the
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way she sees the world,
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like in This positive way.
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It's the internet can be brutal sometimes.
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You know, you go online and not everyone's your friend and
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not everybody wants to be your friend and they might be having
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a bad day and they just want to ruin yours sometimes too
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But Kali always has like this positive way of thinking about
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things and like I think that for me that has inspired me
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so much because it makes you feel like,
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you know what? I don't matter what nobody says.
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I'm gonna do it how I want to do it.
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And I'm gonna be happy about the way I did it.
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Thank you so much for everything you've shared with me,
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truly. It was a wonderful conversation,
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Priscilla. One last thing,
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where can our audience keep up with you on social media to
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see what's Next, well,
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I made it super easy.
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Priscilla Ono is my handle on Instagram and TikTok,
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so you know, come over and let's,
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let's, let's be amigas together.
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Amis and let's all be amigos.
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Amigos includes everyone. Baos.
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