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Selena Gomez, who's receiving People's inaugural Beauty Impact Award, on the inspiration for Rare Beauty, how she’s still in the honeymoon phase with husband Benny Blanco and why she has no fears about aging.

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00:00I love getting older. Yeah, things are going to change and things are going to sag, but, like, you're alive.
00:09My favorite part of creating Rare genuinely was because I didn't know so much about what, you know, was happening
00:18to me.
00:19Meaning, I was seven years old in a makeup chair. That's just not normal and weird.
00:23But I was around it my whole life, and I never knew how to do it.
00:27And so I have videos of me and my friends where I'm making tutorials I wanted to post on YouTube,
00:36but they're, like, really fun to play with, and I just wanted to be a part of the conversation.
00:42But I knew if I was going to enter the world of cosmetics, it needed to also have a meaning.
00:49First, I want products that are great, easy to use, not complicated.
00:54And on top of it, we've been able to create the Rare Impact Fund, which is thriving, and that makes
01:02me happiest, for sure.
01:04It's so nice to be able to donate, and that is very important.
01:08But having tangible evidence that we've been doing things for the communities that we connect with,
01:16and we're constantly looking for new people to start ideas with and see what we can do and help in
01:24the mental health space,
01:26because it's extremely important to me.
01:27I think for me, I still am discovering certain parts of my brain, and my attitude towards mental health is
01:35constantly growing,
01:36and I think it's important to grow with it and understand the logic behind it, even when you're in, you
01:44know, maybe an episode,
01:46which I've, you know, been able to be grounded in and rooted in my DBT work and working with my
01:54therapist.
01:54There are so many ways, but also just creating the coping skills yourself is really important.
02:00So I just try to work on it.
02:01So it's every day.
02:02I think I see the light every day.
02:04I just get closer and closer and keep chasing it.
02:07I think I have had people in my life that have unconditionally loved me,
02:13and even when they were not understanding exactly what I was feeling,
02:18I felt seen and I felt really loved.
02:21So they were confused, but once I found out, you know, got my diagnosis and I feel free and they
02:29understand and it made sense.
02:32So just sticking it out with someone, being next to them in their hardest moment means more than, you know,
02:40a thing you could do.
02:46Getting older has been so fun.
02:48I'm not scared at all.
02:50I don't get that feeling.
02:52I love getting older.
02:53Yeah, things are going to change and things are going to sag, but like, you're alive.
02:59You know, I think age is just a number in many ways.
03:01Half 2016 glam and 2026 glam.
03:05I gotta be honest, the 2016 throwbacks and all of it is so much fun, but people get really intense.
03:13I always make this joke where I think people want to freeze me in time to that period of my
03:19life.
03:20I don't know, maybe it was, well, it was probably more interesting because I'm now chilling, which is great.
03:26But it was just hectic.
03:28It was such a hectic period in my life.
03:29And of course, I had to rock a smoky eye.
03:32I was trying to be cool.
03:34Now I do a smoky eye and it just looks a little different.
03:36I think people always want me to look the way I did and that's just not going to happen.
03:42I don't know what I'd say to my younger self, but I have a 13-year-old sister.
03:46My sister is so much cooler than me.
03:48She's 13 and has more confidence than I do.
03:51So she is actually so thrilled to try things, but she also knows she doesn't need it.
03:56So I think I would just tell her, like, you're beautiful exactly how you are.
03:59But try anything you want.
04:01She loves coming to the office and having a field day and that makes me happy.
04:06So overall, I feel like I would just say have fun and enjoy it.
04:12If it's making you feel something, you know, like, oh, I need this to be pretty.
04:18That's not really true.
04:19I think everyone's pretty and beautiful the way they are.
04:23You know, the older I've gotten, the more I've realized that it is super important to take care of your
04:27skin.
04:28And so I like facials and I love things that help it just look better and that feels better.
04:33I'm just going to go in a little bit like that and then blend, blend, blend, blend, blend.
04:38I usually will use, you know, a primer, whether it's the illuminating primer I have or actually I don't really
04:46use the primer as much as I used to because I just use like two pumps of the foundation, kind
04:52of brush it all over.
04:53And then I use bouncy blush and I use my eyebrow gel and my mascara and lip oil.
05:00I actually was terrified to release the foundation.
05:03We had one before previously and it definitely needed some love.
05:10I was very proud of it.
05:11It worked so well with certain skin types.
05:13And we had, you know, 48 shades and it was just really important to make it very inclusive.
05:20But at the same time, I had to let it go and then start something new.
05:26But I kind of felt inspired by Hung, who's one of my makeup artists.
05:31The way he applies the foundation makes it look airbrushed and beautiful and soft.
05:37So that's what I wanted the foundation to feel like, which ultimately when he puts it on me and it
05:43works, it makes me very proud.
05:45I wore it on my wedding day.
05:47Yeah, it was, it was also kind of good for crying, I realized.
05:53I did a lot of that.
05:54So, and it held pretty great.
06:00I think it's very important for me to space things out.
06:04I think when I was younger, I felt like it was 90 miles an hour.
06:08It was just fun.
06:09And I felt, I only felt good when I would work.
06:13Now I, I need to be sane.
06:16Now I need to genuinely take time to appreciate my life.
06:22And that's why I took a step back from music.
06:25So as much as yes, I've been busy.
06:28I think I've balanced it really well.
06:37My husband, he happens to be extremely more advanced in that world than I am.
06:44And I really appreciate his advice and his guidance.
06:47But he never took control of anything.
06:49If anything, I wanted him to.
06:52And he just said, no, I want your decisions to be your decisions.
06:57And it was very easy.
06:59I don't think I would make every album with him or always do music with him.
07:04But I loved it.
07:05And we have a memory now.
07:07We've done something together.
07:08I think we're still in the honeymoon stage.
07:11I love it.
07:11It just feels so wonderful to have a partner that actually genuinely listens and just meets
07:17you right where you are, whatever that mood or day looks like.
07:22And that's all I could ask for.
07:23I just need him and I love him.
07:26So it's pretty great.
07:27He is a very joyful human.
07:29He's very fun, spontaneous, and he loves to talk.
07:34He took a boat to see me in London.
07:38He's very romantic, but also equally stressful if you're the wife.
07:41We're just hoping he's safe.
07:43I have a handkerchief.
07:44I'm crying.
07:45I'm, you know, waving him off and I'll be seeing you.
07:50Yeah, it's my life.
07:54This is the sixth birthday of Rare.
07:57It actually has a cute meaning to me because Only Murders, season six, I just finished.
08:02And it was so fun to, you know, have a refreshing new season and have it be completely separate
08:09from other places.
08:10I have to be honest, it was pretty hard being away from home.
08:14But I was with my other family.
08:16What if I talk to ghosts?
08:20Uh-huh.
08:21Um, say more about that.
08:24I just ask Meryl, like, acting stuff and, like, some of the choices that she's made.
08:28And I always make a joke and say, what would Meryl do?
08:31She's the best.
08:32She's, like, just not only is she the goat, she happens to be the nicest person you'll ever meet.
08:38And she's always laughing, she'll be singing, and even if she's, you know, has on, like,
08:45has downtime, she's always doing something, like knitting.
08:49So cute.
08:50She's so cute.
08:51They've shown me by example what it means to have dignity, to have class, to understand
08:57that the world doesn't always have to be a serious place.
09:01I'll ask questions and I have genuine thoughts and they don't make me feel silly for asking
09:06them anything.
09:08Look, they all have families and they've lived life in a way that I never have.
09:15So I think maybe that's why I'm not afraid of getting older because it, people have made
09:21it look really good.
09:25What am I supposed to see in this decade?
09:27I just want to be happy.
09:28I just hope I'm still doing things that I love and I hope that if I stop loving what I
09:33do
09:34that I will stop.
09:34I actually never really place value in what I do because it can destroy you instantly.
09:40I like to be appreciative of everything that comes my way.
09:44So I just hope for great things.
09:48That's about it.
09:50I love where I am now and it feels incredible.
09:53I feel very lucky and I enjoy every day.
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