Make no mistake. Becky G. is a modern-day magnificence icon. Scroll by means of her Instagram posts, and it turns into clear that her 37.2 million followers would agree (her feedback are brimming with adoring fan messages and gushing heart-eye emojis). Whereas the singer-songwriter is thought for ingenious, experimental, and ever-changing make-up appears, there’s often razor-sharp cat-eye liner concerned.
It is no surprise she’s considered one of three feminine artists featured in an thrilling new restricted sequence, known as Faces of Music. Sephora and Hulu teamed up on the challenge with one shared aim: celebrating and exploring the deep connection between magnificence and music. It launches right now, January 22, on Hulu. Every of the three episodes will characteristic iconic magnificence appears from artists like Chappell Roan, Victoria Monet, and sure, Becky G.
Forward of the sequence debut, we linked with Becky G. to speak about all issues magnificence. Preserve scrolling to learn the complete interview and study all the pieces from her previous red-carpet blunders to the make-up hacks that she realized from her long-time pal and make-up artist, Gilbert Estrada, and the way her Mexican-American heritage continues to tell her self-expression.
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Faces of Music highlights the deep connection between magnificence and music. How does magnificence inform your music and vice versa?
I really feel like all types of creativity are about connection. For me, personally, it is about like storytelling. It’s a type of expression that I feel, since I used to be little or no, I naturally gravitated in the direction of. It was generational too, seeing my mother prepare for household occasions, and seeing my grandmothers prepare for church on Sunday as a result of these have been their huge occasions. I feel it’s a technique of reference to your self, however then I noticed, in my technology, it turned a technique of reference to others within the magnificence house and make-up particularly. For me, it goes hand in hand with my artistry in music, as a result of an enormous a part of what I do in music is reference to my viewers and storytelling. It simply seems like an extension of me, if that is smart.
Completely. I like that you simply stated it’s a generational connection. How does make-up show you how to join with different folks, whether or not that’s in actual life or on-line?
I feel it has lots to do with the web. The best way that you’ll find suggestions for sure merchandise. You’ll be able to stroll right into a Sephora and be completely clueless, after which stroll out much more knowledgeable and much more educated simply by asking the folks round you what to search for. I feel again within the day, it was like, ‘What’s your secret?’ And a few folks would completely gatekeep. There was not numerous sharing data or no matter that secret was.
I really feel like right now it is rather more communal. Everyone desires to share what works for them in hopes that it will probably assist another person. I grew up as that technology was transitioning and coming round.
I had numerous pimples rising up. I had every kind of issues that, to be sincere, I might attempt to cowl with make-up. I discuss this within the episode—how make-up has developed in my self-discovery. It was this factor that I used to cover behind, and now I take advantage of it to amplify and empower what’s already there. I feel that is additionally a mirrored image of how rather more communal the house has turn into. We have turn into extra empowered. We empower each other, and it is actually cool to see.
I agree. That is my favourite a part of my job as a magnificence editor—the connection. Within the episode, you talk about your background. You’re a proud Mexican-American artist. How has your heritage knowledgeable your magnificence routine and philosophy?
I feel it goes again to the entire house being extra communal. For me rising up, it was very a lot ‘sharing is caring.’ That’s what my godmother would say. She was an early intervention preschool trainer, and she or he would convey all of her faculty songs dwelling. One of many largest issues that we’d follow was ‘sharing is caring.’ I really feel like that’s how our tradition is. We share all the pieces. We share our meals, we share our drinks, we share our music, we share our properties if somebody is in want.
I feel that’s coincided with how my magnificence philosophy is right now, and the way open I’m about my magnificence journey and my magnificence merchandise and routines and issues like that. It’s that facet of my tradition that evokes it. Additionally, simply stylistically, I feel there’s lots in Chicano tradition… As a result of my mother, being a younger Latina rising up in LA simply naturally inherited from her. My mother in highschool is for positive my model icon—the way in which she would model her curly hair to the varieties of lip liners that she would put on, the model of garments…No person else in my trade grew up desirous to rock [Timberlands]. I needed to as a result of my mother did in highschool. Our tradition may be very a lot about passing one thing down and about generational traditions and issues like that. I really feel like the wonder traditions from watching my mother and my grandmothers…they’re very current in my magnificence habits.
Justice for mothers for being the unique magnificence icons. One a part of the episode that basically struck me was while you referenced your magnificence icons, like Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, and J.Lo. How does it really feel to be a magnificence icon for the youthful technology?
That is wild. It is truly actually loopy, particularly coming from any individual who, like many, over-plucked their eyebrows and wore foundations that have been by no means color-matched as a result of they didn’t know easy methods to make olive undertones for brown ladies like me. Any type of beauty-go-wrong that I can consider, I attempted rising up. It is humorous to assume that any individual who’s tousled a lot and walked onto carpets with out dismissing setting powder could possibly be thought of an icon.
I feel it’s as a result of I’m not afraid to play. Since I used to be very younger, my first interactions with make-up have been actually enjoying gown up. My mother was a younger mother. She was by no means the mother that was like, ‘You are too younger to put on make-up.’ She was like, ‘Have at it, child.’ It was enjoyable. It was an area to be inventive and an area to play. Everyone involves me, and so they’re like, ‘I am not good at eyeliner. I may by no means.’ I am like, ‘You are not good at eyeliner since you do not follow!’ You are not simply naturally good at one thing. Clearly, if I over-plucked my eyebrows and didn’t know easy methods to color-match foundations…I additionally was not excellent at eyeliner. Play was so necessary and follow was so necessary for me. You do not simply get good at one thing in a single day. You type of have to search out your self and discover your model. I hope that that evokes any individual else to do the identical for themselves.
On this nonetheless from the episode, Becky G.’s make-up artist, Gilbert Estrada, perfects her eye make-up.
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Completely. I’m dying to know what your favourite make-up merchandise are.
That’s actually, actually exhausting. I’m an individual whose magnificence routine adjustments as soon as every week… One in all them isn’t an precise product. It will be one thing that I do earlier than I put on make-up, which is my pores and skin prep—it’s so key to me. Chilly water and chilly showers are considered one of my go-to magnificence hacks. In your lymphatic system, chilly showers are actually, actually good and simply general getting your physique right into a extra awake state. What I do on the finish of each bathe and each single time I wash my face is rinse in chilly water—as chilly as I can take it. It makes such a distinction to your pores and your hair.
Then, product-wise, you understand these collagen masks that everyone has been into?
Is it the Biodance one?
Sure, I like that! I’m obsessed. My pores and skin’s by no means been higher. And the truth that I can sleep with it on…I’m that one who won’t do a face masks if I’ve to take it off. what I imply? It simply seems like such an inconvenience. The truth that I can watch a film and go to sleep with it on, and it actually does not go anyplace, and I get up the following morning and my pores and skin simply appears superb, feels superb. I might advocate these. These are fairly superb for mixture pores and skin, like what I’ve.
Then, let me assume…I imply, I’m an OG Beautyblender stan. I’ve received slightly Beautyblender for positive.
What about eyeliner? As I used to be watching you do your eyeliner within the episode, I used to be simply dying to know which one you utilize.
There’s two. Shout out to Gilbert Estrada, my make-up artist, who’s within the episode. He is considered one of my favourite collaborators, and we use the phrase collaborators as a result of he is like, ‘I by no means do your make-up on my own. You all the time assist in a roundabout way.’ It is tremendous enjoyable that we get to collab. One of many ideas and methods that he taught me was with the Make-up by Mario Neutrals Palette. We use the black eyeshadow with a setting spray of some type, and a very high-quality, angled brush. That’s often what I take advantage of for exhibits and stuff.
Once I’m dwelling, I like the Huda Magnificence liquid liner. The tip is tremendous, tremendous high-quality, and it does not leak. It’s totally straightforward to make use of. I might say beginner-friendly can be the Huda Magnificence liner, after which type of going extra skilled degree can be utilizing the eyeshadow palette.
What a superb hack. Talking of while you’re on tour otherwise you’re performing and you’ve got these lengthy units and also you’re below scorching lights, how do you retain your make-up in place?
It’s no magnificence secret. Everyone is aware of that the One Dimension setting spray is by far probably the greatest to return into the wonder house. It’s so good. I undoubtedly owe it to the One Dimension setting spray that my make-up actually does not go anyplace. And I’m a crier. I cry on a regular basis. I cry on stage. I cry once I come off stage. You’ll be able to ask anyone who is aware of me. Yeah, that’s for positive one of many high merchandise that I might say is, is to thank.
While you’re not working and you are not on stage, what does your each day magnificence routine appear like? Are you somebody who wears make-up day-after-day or are you somebody who offers your pores and skin a break?
I don’t put on make-up when I haven’t got to put on make-up…however then I additionally contradict myself, and I’ll be like, ‘I’ll do a full beat to go to the grocery retailer’ Not too long ago, with the vacations and stuff, after which clearly the present local weather right here in LA, I’ve simply not been carrying make-up in any respect, actually. Right now’s the primary day I type of put slightly little bit of make-up on. I’m a glam girly once I must be and once I’m within the temper for it, however I may also be bare-faced for days at a time and provides my pores and skin a break.
Switching gears right here. Within the episode, you say that there’s this inaccurate perception that there is solely room for a specific amount of individuals within the trade and that individuals love pitting feminine artists towards each other. How does it really feel to interrupt these obstacles and collab with different feminine artists? Is it one thing that is necessary to you going ahead in your profession?
100%. It is a part of my perception system. It is one thing that I actually wanted rising up and one thing that I am actually proud to be part of on this technology. Finally, it will be exhausting regardless. Why make it more durable on one another, and why let folks make it more durable for us?
There’s this phrase in Spanish that I all the time say, which is, ‘Collectively, we’re extra.’ Actually each single time I’ve leaned into that, in the other way of what society has type of programmed us to imagine and what the media has programmed feminine artists to imagine, it all the time ends in nice victory—actually particular friendships that I’ll carry in my coronary heart eternally and reminiscences that I look again on and might say very confidently, ‘Wow, I received to expertise this actually superb accolade, and I didn’t should do it alone.’ It makes me actually, actually proud. It’s one thing that I’ll proceed to maneuver inside my coronary heart with each motion I make in my profession.
Completely. I like that. What’s subsequent for you? Do you will have a particular aim you wish to hit this 12 months? What we will anticipate to see from you in 2025?
What’s subsequent for me is revamping my make-up equipment as a result of I self-glam lots. I’m going to Paris Trend Week, and I’m going to be self-glamming whereas I’m on the market, so I can not wait to revamp my 2025 equipment. I’ve plans to go to Sephora to try this.
I’m excited for this docu-series to return out. I get to be a part of this with two different unbelievable feminine artists that I genuinely have a lot love and respect for. So, I am actually excited for my followers to see that. Then, engaged on new music! There’s lots happening.
Store A few of Becky G.’s Favourite Magnificence Merchandise
BIODANCE
Bio-Collagen Actual Deep Masks
Beautyblender
Authentic Beautyblender Make-up Sponge
MAKEUP BY MARIO
Grasp Mattes® Eyeshadow Palette: the Neutrals
HudaBeauty
Life Liner Fast ‘n Straightforward Precision Liquid Eye Liner
ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr
On ’til Daybreak Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray
