Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday, and it's Thanksgiving weekend. I have so much gratitude to hang out with one of my favorite people. It's celebrity makeup artist Brian Mendez. Hello, Brian. Hi, guys. How are you guys? Tell us, tell us what's been going on in makeup world.

Makeup world. You know, we are moving, I feel like we're moving towards more natural, more skin care and more like skin. You know, I worked on a client and she's like, can you not use a lot of makeup on me? And I'm like, makeup as in how? She's like foundation. She's like, I spend so much money on my skin to look amazing

why would it hide it you know and and it clicked in my head I'm like you know that's so amazing

people in like I invest and you know you know your skincare is so amazing so like you want to show off

like beautiful skin so I think we're moving that direction.

That's so true.

I think the pandemic with us hold up in our houses, we didn't need makeup.

And we were heavily investing in skincare because it was one of those simple pleasures.

And also, it's awful to get it all inside your mask.

Is there a solution to mask makeup?

Ooh, a lot of setting sprays, but usually, you know, I've, you know, put more powder on my clients,

or I try, like, I'll give them like a shield, you know, to like cover their face, but yeah,

priming and good, good skincare, you know, just prepping the skin pretty, pretty amazing.

Yeah, using less makeup is key. I'm not a believer in foundation. I think it looks great in photos

and it hides superficial blemishes and everything, but a lot of patients, it just looks older and

caked on and settles and creases. Especially now with mask and like we're moving into like more

of a cold weather. So I feel like the skin is drying. So like it's better to have glowy skin

than dry makeup, you know? So almost like no skin. I like, I mean, no makeup I prefer sometimes,

you know? Definitely. What are your tricks as the winter weather evolves?

I see it a lot in my own skin that you get dryness, flakiness, your skin gets more sensitive,

more irritated, especially like legs and things get so ashy and scratchy.

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