For makeup artist Stephanie Flor, a New York native with roots in Costa Rica and Ecuador, beauty is transformational and a tenet to live by. "It has the power to evoke a feeling," she says. "Beauty is everything and everywhere. If I see beauty in me, I see beauty in you."
For her personal beauty style, Flor's go-to is a lash and defined brows. She typically sticks to natural looks — fresh skin and freckles on full display — but that doesn't deter her from a glam moment with a striking highlighter or bold lips. She likes changing her look according to her clothes, the seasons, and where she is in life, and in general loves the feeling that makeup brings her.
Her mother's best beauty tip is wrapped up in a similar philosophy of being confident in yourself: "Your beauty comes from your power, and that is something you radiate when you know where you come from, your roots."
