Welcome to Who what wear with Hillary Kerr, your direct line to the designers stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion.

I'm your host Hillary Kerr and today I'm joined by

who-watt wears beauty director Aaron Johns. Aaron's back right in time to arm you

with makeup tips and inspiration for all of the holiday

functions that December has to offer.

Aaron's sharing the season's best makeup trends for parties, how to prep your face for a look that will

last through multiple rounds of cocktails, and how to easily elevate your look to take you

straight from the office party to a festive night out.

It's all coming up on who what wear. Erin, welcome back to the show. We are so delighted to have you here just in time to kick off the holiday season. How are you?

I'm good. I cannot believe it's already this time of year to talk about this.

I feel like we were just talking about summer stuff.

We were just talking about summer stuff and so now I'm so happy to have you here to talk about

everything that we need to know for holidays because we have office parties, we have family gatherings, we have big reunions in our

hometowns, we have New Year's celebrations, we have family photos, the list goes on.

So for those of us, like me, who maybe stick to a relatively standard makeup routine year round,

one thing I always like about holiday is I feel like it gives you a

free pass to experiment a little bit. But as someone who knows a lot more about this than

I do, what are some good tips for approaching our holiday makeup

experiments? Well, I'm exactly like you. I kind of stick to a basic routine most of the

year and then also do like taking the holidays as an opportunity to kind of be a little bit more

creative, have a little bit more fun, try the bright colors that I maybe normally would not.

But I do think there is something to be said with kind of staying in the lane of where you're comfortable and what you know works for you and then finding little ways to kind of elevate what you're already doing, especially if you're someone

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