Once I sit down with actor, filmmaker, and psychological well being advocate Taraji P. Henson, I am ready to speak about modifications. This sequence, in spite of everything, is supposed to spotlight how magnificence icons have developed through the years and what they’ve discovered alongside the best way. And we actually speak concerning the shifting magnificence panorama, the pores and skin and hair care suggestions she’s discovered, and the reminiscences that stand out (like her affinity for blue eye shadow). 

However to Henson, magnificence surrounds not solely what matures however what really stays fixed in her life—specifically, her 40-year friendship with Tracie Jade Jenkins, who serves as the chief director of The Boris Lawrence Henson Basis. 

“I believe we have been married in a previous life,” Henson jokes throughout a hearth chat on the current Girls’s Psychological Well being & Empowerment Summit hosted by Kate Spade New York. As the 2 creatives recount how they met—and remained “soul mates”—all through the years, they symbolize simply how excessive true friendship can carry you up. (And on a beauty-related notice, social connection can even facilitate quicker wound therapeutic.) 

“All people need to be seen,” Henson tells me after the summit. “We need to be seen, we need to be heard, and we need to be cherished.” And when you’ve gotten somebody who actually sees you thru all of the pure shifts that life brings? Properly, that is a good looking factor. 

So, should you take one piece of recommendation from Henson (along with her wholesome growing older suggestions under), it is to name a buddy right this moment. If something, your pores and skin will glow for it.