You told me love dies, people change. But I never thought it got that bad. I know we've seen some better days.
So.Adelitas Way Alive lyrics & video : What if I told you that I think you're perfect Beautiful sky in your eyes, it's so worth it I know You make me feel alive What if I told yo.From 1.25. But I would be remiss if I didn't give you a piece of art to sit in front of while you listen. I got a chance to sit down with Regina Merson, founder and creator of the makeup company Reina Rebelde, to talk about starting a business, the art of makeup, Frida Kahlo, and the intersection of makeup and Latinx culture.
Rather than on the wall, this painting is on a pedestal, so you can read the inscription on the back. Head to your left until you find the room with the painting that's not usually where you expect to see a painting. Head to the American wing, past the Chihuly sculpture and up to the third floor- not quite all the way up to visit Venus on the fourth. Best Adelitas Way is an Independent American hard rock band Fitted Scoop T-Shirt.Today, we're at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: adelitas way is an independent american hard band and12. New Adelitas Way is an Independent American hard rock band Graphic T-Shirt.
So I walked into my first job at a big firm, based out of New York, but I was working in their Dallas office, as a real estate attorney for Lehman Brothers. I actually graduated from law school before the 2008 financial crisis. But before that you got your start in law, is that right?Regina Merson: Yes, I was a lawyer for over six years. Ponders: I'd like to start by talking about you and the makeup company that you created. / I know you make me feel alive.T.H. What if I told you that I think you're perfect / Beautiful sky in your eyes, it's so worth it.
You'd be hard pressed to find a Latina that isn't surrounded with notions of femininity, beauty, makeup as power, how it's a tool that we use to reveal and express parts of ourselves to the world at large. Makeup had always figured very prominently in my life. What was the what was the inspiration to to leave law behind?RM: So the inspiration was really actually rather personal.
Makeup in a lot of Latina cultures, and in particularly in Mexico, is not quite optional. You witnessed a lot of how feminine power and your notion of yourself as a woman was very closely correlated to this ritual that you watch all women around you engage in every single day. But you see makeup in everything, from during the Mexican Revolutionary War with the adelitas who were the women that were helping during that time and wore makeup and did their hair in braids, all the way to telenovelas, the soap operas that took took a stronghold in the 80’s when I was growing up in Mexico.
You had to look nice, but understated. There was a lot of perception at times it felt like not always but at times that you know, you are going to be a smart, capable attorney you couldn't be vain. At that point, it became a little bit of a loaded choice. And it wasn't something that a lot of other women adopted, but it didn't seem to matter how far I moved from home it was it was there.When I became a lawyer, it took on a different meaning, in the sense that it was more personal.
It turns out, I wasn't the only one that was frustrated. This was either just a transactional item to get you out the door, or it was a brand that didn't resonate with me, or I had to kind of create a hodgepodge of different makeup brands to come up with a you know a collection that really spoke to all like the different facets of my personality that I was trying to express through my beauty rituals.And then of course, like a good lawyer, I started doing business research, and the statistics were alarming. I just started really reflecting and paying attention to the thing I was naturally drawn to, which was makeup how much makeup I was buying how much time I spent watching YouTube videos of people doing makeup techniques how fascinated I was by the art form of it how empowering I found it when you could execute something really, really well, and the skill sets that are frankly that it requires.Then it was realizing my personal frustration with the fact that a lot of the makeup brands out there weren't speaking to me authentically. And with it, kind of slowly, the whole business idea started coming about. And once I was in such a focused area of law, I realized it kind of made me leave a lot of things behind that I really enjoyed and needed to feel a well balanced life.I started observing sort of how makeup had become the creative outlet that I had on a daily basis as a way to reclaim that moment or that experience. And it wasn't creative enough- which was something I didn't realize till I had been out of school for a long time where I was forced to do creative things as part of my curriculum.
We're being talked down to. Everyone's frustrated by this. And when I realized that there was tremendous economic power that was being brought to the table by Latinas in the beauty industry, it sort of set off like a perfect chain of events of, "Wait a minute. I remember being marketed to in a lot of different ways by different brands or people at makeup counters and when they realized that I was Mexican, the response and the attitude was just so tone deaf, and so clueless, and it felt so insulting. Latinas buy more cosmetics than every other woman in the country, and nobody was really taking the time to understand or speak to them.
It was a very wonderful experience in some regards and incredibly scarring in others. I was an immigrant to this country. How come no one's doing this authentically and from the inside?" So that was that was a the genesis of the whole idea.TP: I want to circle back and continue the narrative but I do have a quick question because it just occurred to me- why did you decide to start doing law? What what was the drive to do law in the beginning?RM: The drive to do law really stemmed from my need for order in the world.
So I really just became a very school focused person and with that ended up in debate and loved the sense of order of things and loved the command of language that you needed in order to be a lawyer. And I was really frustrated and I think kind of out to prove that it was all surmountable and that was within my control. And I really felt the limitations that everyone around me was already projecting my way even as a young child because I was an immigrant and because I didn't speak English that well. The Mexican educational system is more European in many regards. I was very frustrated by the two or so years it took me to really understand and get my feet wet about the American educational system, which is very different from the Mexican educational system. I didn't speak the language fluently.
She sold it to an engineer from the United States. The Frida Kahlo painting that we have at the MFA here in Boston is the first painting that she ever sold. And I have a question that's kind of an odd question, but I want to ask it anyway.
So that was never, you know, that was not that surreal for me. So that was very surreal.Then after we launched obviously the first five orders we got were people I knew. Holding that lipstick in my hand after seeing prototypes and different things and seeing how everything came together was really surreal, because whether or not it ever sold at that point, or whether it was a success or a failure, I had managed to take an idea from from my own brain and create it into something tangible. And I think that there were times when I thought it was never going to happen. The amount of background work and the thousands of little decisions that have to be made to get a product to market is mind boggling. I think when I first received the finished product in my hand, and it arrived at my office, and I had seen all the decisions and the three, four years prior that went into the creation of this one lipstick as an example, it was very surreal, because at that moment, I had taken an idea and turned it into something actually physical.
I had someone come up to me and say that they loved the show who I had no idea who they were, and it It blew my mind. It was like "Okay, somebody else besides everybody in my network knows about this."TP: Yes, as a podcaster, I've had that exact moment before too.
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