Selena Gomez by Micaiah Carter for Allure Magazine October 2020 Best Beauty
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Selena Gomez covers the October 2020 ‘Best in Beauty’ issue of Allure U.S. Photographer Micaiah Carter (IG) captures the fashion looks from Balenciaga, Fe Noel, Laquan Smith (cover), Romeo Hunte and Pyer Moss T-shirt ‘VOTE OR DIE’ (Bravo!) styled by Arianne Phillips./ Makeup: Selena Gomez with direction from Hung Vanngo; hair by Marissa Marino
Jessica Chai narrates the interview for a fashion story in which Selena definitely seems to channel her inner Frida Khalo.
Note: See brief introduction to Micaiah Carter in The New Black Vanguard Aperture Foundation video end of story.
Selena Gomez Launches ‘Rare Beauty’
Selena talks up the launch of her new cosmetics line, ‘Rare Beauty’, with a social mission pledging to raise $100 million for mental health services in underserved communities. 1% of all sales are earmarked for the initiative. In these dark days ‘Always An Optimist Illuminating Primer — sounds like a nurturing wake-up fix for skin. Jessica Chia does an in-depth on the ‘Rare Beauty’ products she loves, so catch-up with those essential facts on Allure.
The activist in Selena Gomez is proud of her producing credits for last year’s Netflix documentary ‘Living Undocumented’, a series that follows the lives of real families being torn ripped to pieces by Trump Administration immigration policies many progressives and conservatives, too, find inhumane and unAmerican.
“It made me mad. I knew I related to that in so many ways. A lot of my family were immigrants, and created lives for themselves here,” Selena says. “I’m just once removed from being an [immigrant]. I’m proud of that side of who I am. But seeing what happened [to the families in the documentary], I just felt helpless — completely disgusted and frustrated — and I wanted to do something that would make people uncomfortable, that would force people to watch something that maybe they just don’t want to see, or don’t understand.”
Selena is also proud of her controversial Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why. The list of teen life challenges included abuse, bullying, rape and teen suicide. "Whether uncomfortable or not, viewed as inappropriate or not, it has created conversation," Selena says."And I feel like it was important for me to do." (Some mental health advocates strongly criticized the show, and at least one scene was retroactively deleted.)
A much-lighter media fare is on the way to HBOMAX: called Selena + Chef. It’s got way too many donuts for us, but Selena fans will love the fun. Selena and her chef friends cook “together” remotely from their respective kitchens.
