Halle Berry Joins ‘Makeup & Friends’ Live! | Westman Atelier

We started this series Makeup and Friends because we wanted to kind of like bring people into that intimate moment, that conversation that feels meaningful and inspiring. You know I've had the privilege of having with many iconic women such as yourself. You know obviously Halle needs no introduction. Halle's like you just keep pushing it at every age and I just think that's so inspiring. You know back in the day we used to work together at Revlon. We reconnected in Stockholm at Brilliant Minds which is a really great conference. We were having this luncheon and I think all the women were a little bit taken aback and I said to them let's go around the room and everybody tell everybody about their menopausal journey. Perimenopause, menopause, pre, post, like wherever they are. And what started to happen and this is what I know is when women get to talking about it, it's such a relief. I'm going through that same thing. You have that too. You flooded your laundry room too or you did this too or you have raged also. And you can't remember shit too. Right, right. And you feel like you're changing into another version of yourself too and so it was you know revelatory for me too because I but I've always known that when we can sit down and we can talk the community is everything. Yeah there's always been this sort of secrecy and stigma around you know your hormonal changes and it's embarrassing and you don't know where to find information and I just my god I was I felt so empowered and I think I shared that emotion with every woman who was in there that day just like whoa Hallie's creating this really special platform to go to for information because I have to say googling it on your own isn't that helpful. No it's not and there's so much misinformation out there and everybody has an opinion and it's like the wild wild west when it comes to so that's what we're hoping too that at Reesman we'll have real answers. It's science backed. Like you said in your 50s you feel the best you felt. The best I've felt. How great is that you guys? I mean now that I fixed my little problem that was having you know once I fixed that problem and Dr. Sarah helped me and that's why we teamed up with Joylux but I got diagnosed with herpes in the beginning and it was not herpes at all I don't have herpes it was just sort of vaginal atrophy they call it with with perimenopause many women get dry your eyes your mouth and your vagina and so I was suffering and the reason I'm teaming up with Joylux to do this is they have this thing called a v-fit and it's a vaginal insert it's got red light therapy a really high high quality red light therapy device and it helped rebuild collagen and helped moisturize and so I found that balance again and so the v-fit along with this intimacy gel changed my life because now I'm back to where I was before this happened and my bent was I wish my doctor had told me this was coming I could have done something in my 40s to prepare for my 50s you know what I mean but but but we're not talking about it you know even the doctors don't want to talk to us about it and we have to start having the conversations and destigmatizing you know we're not even allowed to say vagina like we're not even allowed to say that word in many I know many if I really want to embarrass my kids I'll I'll tell them if you don't do this or if you do that I'll say vagina in front of your friends you know all of the stigma around HRT and things like that you know not knowing and thinking that oh it might give me cancer but I can't sleep and what do I do that study I think was the single most atrocious thing that happened to women in women's health care because it got all of us down a path of saying no to the one thing right now that's really able to move our needle the most and we all got turned off to that and we got afraid of it and so we've been toughing it out and that's something that has to be corrected but that's only going to be corrected with education and people speaking out about it and those results really being talked about you know so that women cannot feel so so afraid yeah and just finding the the right right person also to speak to about it you know that's why doctors uh Sarah she was at my house recently and I was telling her that my libido and I'm still struggling a little bit and this tire and she said are you on testosterone and I said no I don't want to grow hair on my chin and she said that's not what's gonna happen there's this new compound way we do it it's bioidentical and let me help you so she told me exactly what to get I got it again am I so much better am I so much better so now I've added testosterone to my to my hormone therapy because she told me personally myself in my 50s I feel stronger than I ever have and just that I trust myself so much more I wanted to create a brand you know because I have rosacea and wanted to create something that didn't just cover and correct the skin I just I wanted to create something that was also going to repair and heal and soothe the skin so I I really worked with of course the performance of the products have to be yes up there but also the ingredients I wanted to kind of eliminate silicones and things that are on our blacklist yes but then we added a lot of beneficial active ingredients things you know you can trust but they're going to help your skin and it's so important that they're clean because I've even been learning with taking my hormones you put it on your skin and it gets absorbed everything we put on our skin is absorbed that's why I'm like I know you are on your way to your premiere tonight never let go and I think you executive produced and you're acting in it like how do you do it all and your makeup looks beautiful where's Jorge shout out to Jorge it looks beautiful well it's hard not to I mean you got good product well that's good you're using the right stuff yes can I ask you where do you is it something you just like touch every day or do you like be like yeah I did that that's me no it is a place nobody ever sees it and the people always come to my house and they wonder about that they think if they had it it would be like right when you walk in the front door like in a thing and it's actually in my bedroom where nobody ever gets to see it or touch it it's just something very personal okay well that's that's pretty cool and it's next to my my partner now it's next to his grammy so grammy and oscar live right next to each other there are proudest accomplishments and they're right next to each other casual so grab me an oscar um okay are you okay are you good at it I'm not either I want to be good I know but I don't I don't know if it's possible for me to be I know it's hard like that's it's hard it's hard but having a brand like you know it's we have to be there to talk about things and be a part of the conversation you know and I really care about what I'm doing now and I want to be able to talk to as many people as I possibly can and I want the younger generation to start leaning into this time of life and have them find a way to not be afraid of aging but to actually welcome it and actually know that it does really just get better and better and better we don't believe that right now as a society because the way we've been positioned as women that we get old and we just go off into obscurity just let it let it go let it go where men get silver foxy they get a red car and a hot new girl we just get old and so it's about changing that narrative for us for ourselves and so I want to reach younger women and get them to start understanding oh no it's just gonna get better oh wait can you just tell me what your workout is my workout yeah I just need to we need to know everybody here wants to just quickly know what what is what does holly do to or it's just like natural I know you do must do something no I work I work out hard and it's no it's not natural I wish it were but it's not and we know as we get older we have to work out even more heavier weights like I was never the weight girl because I thought I don't want to be like bone density though right bone density our muscles and so I'm lifting heavier than I ever used to lift now that I got my testosterone thanks to Dr. Sarah I'm like that you know I'm feeling stronger and I do cardio but not crazy not crazy cardio it's more about the lifting the lifting weights and being strong so that I don't you know break a hip or fall and and it's pretty regular five six days a week for sure Sunday's okay off day yeah but even off day is like a walk day god yes walking is so nice I have to say I started recently wearing ankle weights on the plane anywhere I can yes I thought it might be a little weird if I wear them now well and then this weighted vest yes oh that's good yeah yes I'm working out with that too yes yeah and um wrist and ankles yes yes holly I know you have to run to your premiere I mean can we just like thank you holly thank you for having me thank you so much by this at Ulta yeah Ulta it's going to be at Neiman's um it'll be Joylux DTC and Joylux site we're going to have it at respin yes and this I got to tell you it's called let's spin I'm going to be spinning ladies let me tell you let me tell you and it's for everybody you know it is designed for you know because like your product it's very clean um it's uh very hydrating but it's but it but it's very very very very clean and what I love about it too is when you use it if there's nothing you have to worry about it will just go away and you could get spinning oh god I but how great is that to know that now I can trust you I can trust because I would always be cautious of something like that no otherwise trust me and I we I created this because I needed it and I like you you created a brand because you had a need I always trust the brands too when someone has created it because it was something that wasn't on the market they needed it I know the kind of care that goes into that passion the passion that goes into that the integrity so yeah right here okay thank you so much