Caitlyn Jenner had lunch in the city and needed someone to do her makeup. Luckily for her, she knows someone.
At first, Jenner put on makeup for her daughter and beauty tycoon Kylie Jenner, whose cosmetics company made her a multimillionaire. The youngest Jenner had never done her father’s makeup before and said that doing so was “the highlight of my life”, but, jokingly, she warned her father: “I am very expensive”.
The 71-year-old Olympic gold medal winning decathlete presented the makeup session on her YouTube channel, and the glamor session was filmed in the offices of Kylie Cosmetics, a modern space with a large fluorescent “KYLIE” on the wall. “My little baby I used to change her diapers in, this is her office,” said Jenner, beaming at the camera.
While the pair settled in and the 23-year-old makeup magnate worked, she took the opportunity to ask her father some questions, including whether Jenner ever thought that day would come.
She did not say. “No, I never thought, I mean, I was 65 before I finally got over it,” she said, referring to coming out as a transgender in 2015. “I had to raise everyone, and I had a life,” She said, but knew it was “my time to be me”.
Kylie made an astute observation: despite being the family’s makeup artist, her father has much more experience in using lip liner or eyelash styler. “You’ve been doing your makeup for longer than anyone I could imagine,” she said.
Caitlyn’s first appearance in the media after it was released was the cover story for Vanity Fair in 2015. Jenner said it was the first time she did her makeup professionally, although she had been doing it alone, in secret, for thirty years. “I thought I died and went to heaven,” she told her daughter about the Vanity Fair experience, which included spending a day trying on a truck full of clothes.
Speaking about an issue that has been raised in the years since, the youngest Jenner asked her father how she felt about being still called “father”, which, she said, sometimes confuses people.
“I think it was one of the best decisions I made,” said Caitlyn. “I am the father, I have been the father all the time, I will be their father until the day they die, or I will die.”
She added that from the beginning she felt that “I have to do it my way…. everyone out there has to do it their way. “
While Kylie wore a makeup brush on her father’s face, smoothing the foundation, Caitlyn spoke of the time before coming out, saying, “You know how complicated and how difficult it is to live my life, sneaking around, lying to people, doing this, doing that, all just to survive. I don’t have this anymore. ”Caitlyn highlighted how much her family has supported.
“I want you to be able to be free and yourself,” said Kylie. “There is no other way for someone to live.”
After applying a nude lip gloss, Kylie’s work was revealed to her father, who hugged his daughter, said he loved her (and her makeup!) And then looked at the camera, saying with a smile: “Not bad for 71 ! “
