This celebrity makeup artist is all about green beauty …

With a client roster that includes Mindy Kaling, Olivia Munn and Amber Heard, Katey Denno is one of the most well-recognized makeup artists in Hollywood. But she has an important mission that sets her apart from her peers: She works with clean, green products and is using her platform to urge others to do the same. For anyone who still thinks you can’t get the same gorgeous looks with natural makeup as you can with the chemical-laden stuff: get into Denno’s work (@kateydenno). The lips are bold, the eyes smoky and the skin luminous. Denno’s path to becoming an internationally recognized green beauty guru has been both unique and inspiring. She started out as a social worker working with male-to-female transgender clients who taught her “so much about the transformative power of makeup.” This, she says, is what inspired her to strike out on her own as a full-time makeup artist. Though she’s now known for championing green beauty throughout the industry, that wasn’t always the case. “I started out buying the typical mainstream cosmetics that my peers carried in their kits,” she says, noting that she had an “Aha!” moment early on in her career. “I was looking on the back of a pro makeup artist palette of creamy pigments and read the warning label that cautioned users to keep certain colors away from eyes and mouths. I thought: If this stuff shouldn’t go near those parts, how safe is it really to put on our skin?” She became concerned about the possible harm these sorts of ingredients could do to her body and to our planet and realized she needed to do something about it. “One day it clicked, and I thought: I can make a real change if I take a stand within the industry and start using product formulated without known toxins,” she says. “It was a pretty simple concept, although at the time, beauty products that worked for me as a makeup artist weren’t plentiful.” That was 10 years ago. Now, in large part thanks to Denno, the industry has started to change, and good-for-you products are easier than ever to integrate into your routine. Plus, they’re just as good as (if not better than) the dirty stuff for creating a flawless face. To find out the best practices for cleaning up your skincare routine for winter (and getting gorgeous makeup for those holiday parties!), we turned to the queen of green beauty to share her tips.