Celeb make-up artist Vincent Oquendo is including a brand new medium below his belt.
On Tuesday, Oquendo will introduce “Backseat Beauties,” a YouTube speak present that sees him carpooling with friends from Nicole Richie to Misty Copeland as they do their make-up, change magnificence recommendation and pull again the curtain on friends’ respective careers and life journeys.
“As a make-up artist, I get to see a ravishing, intimate aspect of people who usually the general public doesn’t get to see,” stated Oquendo, whose purchasers embody Jenna Ortega, Katie Holmes and Rachel Zegler. “Celebrating that human connection is a part of what propelled me to begin the present.”
All six episodes of season one, which is able to drop on Tuesday, had been shot between Los Angeles and New York, the place Oquendo relies. “The cities virtually looks like characters within the present, as a result of every one has a unique vitality,” stated Oquendo, including that season two will start manufacturing in Might, with choose episodes more likely to be shot in Cannes, the place Oquendo can be working with attendees of the Cannes Movie Pageant.
Oquendo and mannequin Soo Joo Park, one in every of six friends featured on “Backseat Beauties” season one.
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The present’s pared-back setting goals to evoke an intimacy just like that of a make-up artist’s chair — which, as it could occur, typically is the backseat of a automobile. “Once we’re on press excursions, in-between appointments or on the best way to a pink carpet, oftentimes I’m doing make-up within the backseat — there’s at all times this factor of journey concerned,” Oquendo stated.
“Backseat Beauties” appears to be like to mix the informative enchantment of magnificence podcasts — which have soared in reputation lately, with “Gloss Angeles” and “Fats Mascara” being among the many most outstanding examples — with a extra pared-back tackle a make-up tutorial. “Make-up is supposed to be enjoyable, and I wish to talk that in my sequence,” Oquendo stated.
“I need my vitality, my campiness, my light-heartedness and that feeling I carry to the room after I’m doing make-up to translate to the present,” he continued.
“‘Backseat Beauties’ does one thing on the surface-level, but it surely additionally tells tales — you might have Misty Copeland speaking about dancing with Prince and what that did for her artistry, the way it gave her a newfound sense of freedom — and that’s necessary. That feeling that, ‘you are able to do it’ — we want that now, even when it begins with simply the make-up course of.”
