"Hello, I'm Jeff Goldblum"
"There are my eyes"
Mostly, I'm a person who wants to honor nature
And I say, you know don't mask nature
If you wanna look good on the outside
there's got to be something good going on on in the inside
"This is David Cox, my dear friend"
"And the best makeup artist in the entire known universe"
Look at those hands go like a magician, with a sponge
- To look natural - Yeah
You need to have different shading in the color of your face
- to make it look alive - Yeah, my face is like, you know...
- Yeah. Lines and you have... - Wait a minute
- What is this about lines? - And shapes
"I'm no stranger to the makeup chair"
"I've been transformed into a tragically romantic human fly"
"a periwinkle blue alien"
"even a grandiose mysterioso all for Mother Cinema"
Gee, look at me I'm talking, and I can't keep my eyes off myself, why is that?
This is a bitter pill
I may be more vain than I ever suspected
"The cosmetics market is worth over 500 billion dollars globally"
"And in the United States of America"
"around 66% of us wear makeup nearly every single day of life"
"Magic"
"You might say that we're obsessed with powder and paint"
"So, you will be pleased to come with me, on an exploration"
"maybe even an excavation"
"as we peel back the layers to reveal what's hidden beneath"
I remember in the '60s seeing Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor
"Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra Siren of the Nile"
My mom, Shirley, fashioned herself as sort of a Pittsburgh
"Elizabeth Taylor who as tan as she could possibly be"
"started to put on that white lipstick"
But I tell you my own personal taste
is that a beautiful face can be beautiful without enhancement
I like unadorned nature
Would you take a flower?
Pardon me, flower, I'm just gonna use you as a demonstration
And say, "something is wrong with this" "It needs a little sprucing up"
"It's not attractive to the bees or something"
"I'm gonna put a little color on there, or something"
No!
Likewise, the color of your eyelashes, it's irreplaceable
"Well, you know that's my two cents for what's it worth"
"Wait a minute Wait a minute What? What is this?"
"Am I descending into a discotheque?"
"This is what's called a Sephoria"
"It's a makeup enthusiast's paradise"
"Look at this"
Guess where we are?
- Sephoria! - Sephoria!
"Every kind of cosmetic imaginable can be daubed"
"on your lips and smelled, and sampled"
"and no surprise here, purchased"
"So, I guess if you're wild about cosmetics"
"this is the ultimate candy store"
"and you know what I'm gonna do"
"I'm just gonna jump into this Euphoria, or wait a minute"
"I guess I should say Sephoria"
Why do people love cosmetics so, so much?
Why?
I love makeup because it's empowering and it's trans formative
- Did you hear that? - Yeah
- Empowering and transformative - Yeah
I like that
Makeup is... it's art
Like with your fashion, it's the same thing with makeup
sometimes you wanna wear cool different textures, and it's all black
Other days you wanna wear boom, that shirt
Today, I went for something more natural
but still glam and so it still highlights my natural beauty
I wish had some natural beauty to highlight myself
- I'm sure you do - Well, somewhere
This is no time for a scavenger hunt, though
"Okay. So there we got a few anecdotal answers, as to why"
"But did you know, that the colors that we put on our face"
"can trigger powerful psychological, responses?"
"And now, I've been given some material"
"Yellow is often associated with happiness and joy"
"But it can be an attention grabber"
"which is why taxi cabs are painted like bright, ripe bananas"
"Green is pleasingly harmonious"
"It makes us think of growth and fertility"
"and all things fruitful and abundant"
"It also signals safety"
"It's okay to cross the street now"
"There are those who think that blue evokes trust"
"loyalty, and wisdom, makes us feel tranquil and serene"
"I think they're just guessing there"
"The many shades of red are perhaps the most powerful colors"
"in your makeup bag"
"The color red stimulates a primal emotional response in our brains"
"It's the hue of blood flushed cheeks"
"It makes us think of love sex, and revolution"
"Hey, I may have already suggested that this is not really my field"
"So I better get some of the basics"
"First, the facts"
"Makeup, as a thriving industry is a 20th Century phenomenon"
"By the end of the Second World War"
"the United States was the world's largest producer of cosmetics"
"with a collection of female entrepreneurs"
"like Helena Rubinstein and Estee Lauder leading the charge"
"And today, I'm scheduled to get a makeup lesson"
"with the very model of a modern makeup mogul"
"Tap tap tap Don't let me interfere"
Hello
- "Tap tap tap" - Mr. Goldblum
- Hello, Ms. Silva - How are you today?
- People like makeup - People love makeup
They love wellness and beauty
And I think part of that is we have a desire to feel good about ourselves
You know, I'm married to a beautiful girl named Emilie
And I say to her, "You know, I love you without any makeup"
- You look great with... - That's the mark of true love
Am I being male and is that my own prejudice?
A lot of makeup was really developed to attract men
but at the same time some men don't like makeup
So, what I try to do is to enhance someone's natural beauty
And so, yes, you have it You are exactly right
Makeup should be and is an enhancer to your already natural beauty
Foundation is used like a psychological product
because it helps people feel very good about the way their skin looks
So it helps aesthetically on the outside
and it helps you psychologically on the inside
The key is to start with a really beautiful even palette
and then take a darker color that contrasts your skin
Oh, you're chiseling this out
- We're chiseling at her cheekbone - You're emphasizing that
- Let's see if it really works - Do you see that?
Let me see Wait a minute
But you could do her makeup
- Totally. Here. Take some, right there - Really? Do you mind?
Okay I'm taking some
There is no way you can mess this up, Okay?
- Really? - Just bounce
There is no way. Just bounce If you can apply makeup...
You mean...
- David, you're out of a job - Oh, my God!
Where's David? There's David Look at him
- Jeff Goldblum doing my makeup - Look, I did it. I did it
So, that's a little technique called contouring
that emphasize the shape of her cheekbones
- Yes - The shape of her nose and eyes
Our eyes have to pop, right?
You have to get your eyelashes like that
"Reducing beauty to a decimal point"
"a new machine turns the face into an intricate column of figures"
"So, from now on, it'll take an expert to pick out a prize winner"
"Jeez, I think I may have betrayed my prejudices just a little bit"
"with Rea Ann... anyway"
"She says that makeup is about enhancing natural beauty"
"But is there more to the world of cosmetics than appearances?"
"More to share than just a bunch.."
"of intentionally curated Instagram moments?"
"Well, maybe so, maybe so"
"I know who this person is"
This person is Manny Gutierrez
He is a...
Is it my turn with Santa Claus?
- Hello. Yeah - Come here
- It's so nice to meet you. Oh, my God! - It's so nice to meet you
Let me gaze upon you now that I'm close
Oh, my goodness! Look, look look at that
"Manny Gutierrez has gotten pretty famous"
"through his YouTube makeup seminars"
Hey, guys Welcome back to my channel
How beautiful I am
"At this point, he's got almost five million subscribers"
"He's something of a trailblazer"
"when it comes to lipstick blushes, and brushes"
Very soft, very creamy very smooth
"But he wasn't the first"
"In fact, for thousands of years"
"men have sported face paint for a variety of reasons"
"Ancient Egyptians wore coal to protect their windows to the soul"
"and ward off evil spirits"
"Tribes all over the globe would paint their faces"
"before battle to frighten the enemy and psych themselves up"
"In 18th Century France courtiers relied heavily on cosmetics"
"to tell the world how important they were"
"After the French Revolution male preening became frowned upon"
"and fell out of fashion"
"And yet, fast forward to the 21st Century"
"and today, one of the fastest growing cosmetics markets in the world is for.."
"the male animal"
Mirror, mirror on the wall... Who's the fairest of them all?
It might be Manny in this case
"Instagram was my first social media platform"
"And I didn't see a lot of men doing anything with makeup"
And the men that were there all shaved their face
So it was very androgynous and very pretty
and very, like female impersonation
Yes
You know, I wanna see my facial hair
And I wanna be very obviously a man in makeup
- Unshackle us - Yes. Absolutely
- Unshackle us - Yes
I mean, I've been unshackled for a very long time
- Congratulations - Thank you
"How have the ideas of classic beauty changed? Are they changing?"
I think that as time progresses and more people are doing these bold things
then it's like, "Oh, well that's my definition of beautiful"
And I think that as time goes forward
everyone gets to define their own way
- Yeah. I like that - You know, feel more empowering
I'm all for that
I'm, like, terrified that we're gonna collapse this
- Yeah, that would be horrible - Can you imagine?
"Well, you know maybe I was a little hasty"
"Maybe makeup can be liberating"
"You know, if our definition of beauty is broader and more inclusive"
"it could open up a whole world of expressiveness and possibility. Huh"
"Okay. It's time for a short history reading"
"Hey, did you know that makeup has often been used"
"as an instrument of empowerment? Oh, yeah"
"Red lipstick was a symbol for female emancipation"
"at the turn of the century"
"when it was worn by suffragettes on marches demanding to vote"
"I am woman, hear me roar"
"Cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden"
"showed her support by handing out scarlet"
"and ruby-colored lipsticks to women marching on New York's 5th Avenue"
"Also, it was the drag performers in Greenwich Village"
"who were among the very first ones to take a stand"
"at the famous Stonewall Riots of 1969"
"These brave queens in cuffs helped unite the modern day"
"rights movement in the USA and around the world"
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women, merely players"
"That's a quote from William... Shatner"
"No. I think Shakespeare"
"Makeup has long been used by thespians"
"to give a little extra flourish to their onstage personas"
"Let's see what these troupe of players have to say"
- "Welcome to our home" - Welcome
- I'm Jeff - Misty
- Yes
- Allusia - Allusia
- What is your name? - I'm Dani Kay
- Ms. Luna - Ms. Luna?
- Yes - Hello, Ms. Luna
This is a drag show, meaning you're all going to be lady-like
Ish
- Woman-adjacent - Woman adjacent
- "Yeah" - Yeah
You know better than I do I'm a humble student
Tell me the history of drag and how makeup fits into it
Well, I guess, the term drag originated from theater
I did not know that
Because women weren't allowed to do theater, so...
"I know that. Yes"
And so, all the men played ladies parts
- "Romeo and Juliet" - So, it's drag queen
- Drag - Dressed as girl
Oh, wait a minute
Dressed, D-R, as...
- As... A, girl... G - Girl
You know, I never knew that See, I gotta start at the beginning
The biggest challenge is getting rid of all the hair
You're doing some plucking and this and that
but you keep your eyebrows on but you cover them up
Yeah. There's layers of glue and makeup
"and everything there that's covering them now"
And then, the beard issue?
The technique for that that's really great
is beard block and color correction
"So what you're tricking the eye is with color"
- So I use a pink, orange-y-ish face - I see
Right here, and that negates any blue undertones in my beard
So when it grows out it'll just look neutral
Right
"The beauty of makeup"
"is that you really can create a completely different person"
"So you can be whatever you want, without fear of being judged"
You've got this little protection of the character
- Which allows you to be real - Yeah
"You, Dani Kay"
I am a trans woman that does drag
- Isn't that interesting? - Yes
Drag in makeup really kind of was
the catalyst that helped me find who I really was
It gives you confidence
It allows you to be who you are naturally
without being fake about it I suppose
"It's showtime"
Oh, yeah I like this
"Hey, that's... that's Ms. Luna"
"Amazing"
"Oh, that's Misty That's Misty"
"Oh, is this Allusia?"
"Yes"
"And a beverage Thank you. Thank you"
"Ah, the smell of the grease paint the roar of the crowd"
As an actor, you can work from the outside in
or the inside out, and finally there's no difference
They sort of meet in an intersection
And that's what I got out of these beautiful performances
"They were doing plenty to alter what we see on the outside"
But it was a kind of a portal
that allowed something to emerge from the inside...
"That gives rise to real power..."
that may not have been available, unadorned
And joy, unbounded joy
"Fierce wit"
"It was something. It was something I admired it"
"Transformation"
Transformacion
"Well, I feel that my mind and heart have been somewhat expanded"
"Could it be that makeup in the hands of a brilliant practitioner"
"might be considered artistic?"
"The creator of these eye-boggling images is Mimi Choi"
"Mimi is a makeup painter"
"who has amassed quite the following for her surreal creations"
"She makes art that uses the face as its canvas"
"I do everything with makeup and face paint"
And I can't wait to work on your beautiful canvas
How long you have been doing this?
I actually changed my career as a preschool teacher five years ago
to become a makeup artist
I was just doing normal beauty makeup that most girls do
- On yourself? - On myself
Have you never trained really..
- even for yourself? - No
Somebody told you how to do it, or something? You know?
No. It was just through kind of self-exploration
I wonder what flight of imagination Ms. Choi will plant on my humble pan
How do you get inspired to do what you do?
- Do you get a weird...? - I get inspiration from everywhere
- I love going to museums - Oh
I love getting inspiration from music, from emotions
And have you heard of sleep paralysis before?
- Wait a minute. Wait a minute - Yeah
What is sleep paralysis?
- Sleep paralysis is when your... - I've heard it
mind is awake, and you're trapped inside of your sleeping body
and you're struggling to wake up
"You can't move your toes You can't move your head"
"or open your eyes and you struggle"
"And during that time, I hallucinate"
"Things that I see in a room, like sometimes"
"I would see hundreds of spiders crawling all over my room"
"I've seen people split up into ten and then coming back into one"
A long, slender man without any features
- That sounds like me - Or people with no faces
Oh
"Sleep paralysis is a blessing in disguise"
"I feel like it gives me inspiration to create art"
"that nobody has seen before because it's inside my head"
"It's fantastic"
"I utilize the face as a canvas so I can transform it into anything I want"
One of the best parts about doing this kind of art is doing
"what makes you truly happy"
"and when I look at your face I already knew I wanted to do this"
"Wow!"
It's cute, right?
"You're a genius Look at that"
Cosmetics, skin-friendly paints anybody can purchase
"It's not just about, you know"
being conventionally alluring or pretty, or prettifying yourself up
"And by the way, I say what's wrong with that?"
"Enhancement with the aspiration of self-actualization"
"can be a force for good"
"Like so many tools, cosmetics can be used to mask yourself"
or do something that allows you to explore all the facets
"of your own passion and creativity"
"And that exploration can be profoundly beautiful"
"and movingly creative"
Of course, I forgot talking to you all this time, I still look like this
Here, let me smear a little makeup on you now
Be still. Be still
Here
Oh, you look fine
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