Is there a favorite memory you have with Selena that you always go back to? I always think of the Grammys, when she won. PS: It's been 21 years since her passing. Whenever she wasn't on stage, she just basically wore the nude-style lipstick, light foundation, mascara, and always had her hair pulled back. SQ: You have to also understand she was very young still, so she had flawless skin. She'd be in there for quite some time, like most girls did. It depends on whether she was trying some new stuff out. I just remember many times, laying there and hearing her in the other room doing her thing. PS: Did she take a long time to get ready?ĬP: I guess like with most women, you wanna be somewhere quickly, you'll get there quickly. If anything, she kept it simple with the bold lip, a little bit of eyeshadow, not too much, and, of course, the eyebrows - you can't forget the eyebrows. She clearly loved the bold lip, like most Latinas. SQ: We kind of wore similar makeup back then. PS: Is there a makeup trick Selena taught you, Suzette? Was there anything she always did while getting ready?Ĭhris Perez: They learned from each other. I don't know if you know what the name of this one is, Chris - Is It the Beat, because it's black. In regards to the names of the songs, I literally looked at them and said this looks like Missing My Baby and this right here is a no-brainer. This speaks volumes of what she would wear when she was running around and doing everyday stuff. When you put it on, it's going to be pink, but it has this clear, glittery vibe. There was some clear gloss in her makeup case, too - this - is the only thing that's not going to be sold in the store. She would run around, and she liked to wear nude lipstick. And, of course, Amor Prohibido is the lighter shade she would normally wear when she was offstage. went better with the darker tone lipstick. That's the darker tone, and I felt it was very sexy. The red is Como la Flor - it has to be, you know? And, of course, Dreaming of You. PS: How about the names? Why did you decide to name them after Selena y Los Dinos' most popular songs. "I still have her makeup case, so I literally took pictures of everything in it and sent it to MAC." They came back to me with these matching colors, the colors she would wear on and off stage. I still have her makeup case, so I literally took pictures of everything in it and sent it to MAC. I think since it's for Selena, it needs to be about Selena.
I said it shouldn't be about anything that I like, or what you guys want to push.
SQ: In regards to the shades, the color palette for the whole collection, when I was discussing it with MAC, they were asking what we felt it should be like. For the last year and a half, we've been working on what this line is, and I'm really happy with it. When I realized what was going on, literally within the week, MAC Cosmetics reached out to us. So I wasn't really on social media and didn't really know what was going on. It was around the time we were planning the Fiesta de la Flor for the first year. I'm not too hip on what that petition page thing was and all that. I believe it got 40,000 signatures in a month. But then, surprisingly, this petition was started by Patty Rodriguez. to be able to, hopefully, do something like that in the future.
When Selena passed away, she wanted to do a line, and was actually creating a line of makeup, so that had always been in the back of my head. Suzette Quintanilla: It's a little bit of both. Did it all start with the fan petition? Or did you always want to do a makeup collection for Selena? POPSUGAR: Tell us about how the line came about. 12 Selena Covers That Might Make You Shed a Tear or 2.10 Selena Songs That Deserve to Endlessly Be on Repeat.Desi Perkins Just Transformed Herself Into Selena, and We Can't Handle It.