That is on display in so many different things that you'll see in Mexican culture. 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. RM: So the inspiration was really actually rather personal. What was the what was the inspiration to to leave law behind? TP: And so then from there, you then at some point made the jump to makeup. And a year later, I got moved to the bankruptcy department, because our firm represented Lehman in the bankruptcy. 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. Regina Merson: Yes, I was a lawyer for over six years.

But before that you got your start in law, is that right? Ponders: I'd like to start by talking about you and the makeup company that you created. And it's here that I think you'll get the most out of my conversation with Regina Merson- in front of MFA accession number 2015.3130, Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia), the first painting Frida Kahlo ever sold. 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. Today, we're at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. 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. Today, I'm very excited to present something new for the show, our first ever interview.

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