Be comfortable stepping outside of your comfort zone.
Good evening.
This is my first makeup related post and I would like to give you the story of how I got into makeup. As a blogger I quickly realized that I needed a huge improvement when presenting myself online because presentation is key but also because I wanted my pictures to show who I feel like and who I am in real life; Alive, vibrant and most of the time a happy person. I decided I'm going to learn how to get perfect eyebrows (my personal obsession), learn some mad eye technique (getting there) and just suck in all that I can like a sponge.
When I began learning, the frustration was real haha, my hands couldn’t produce what my brain wanted me to create. I went through a whole range of crappy make up brands & spent endless of money. Like everything else, my makeup journey had it’s ups and downs but at the end of the day I realised that this is really relaxing, because I could spend hours doing it and hours studying techniques online without noticing how time flew by.
Around this time my daughter was just about to start kindergarten and I needed something extra to do with my time since I was looking for a new job. So I decided to turn this little hobby of mine into something I could actually take to the next level. I couldn’t afford going to go to a makeup school like others out there who have invested 60-70.000 kr (approximately 8400 dollars). Most artist I was following were self taught so I did get a lot of inspiration from them and it also taught me that with discipline and practice I could actually do this by myself. I still decided to go to makeup school online, what a mistake, because it was the cheapest one that could find but also it give me a little of what I was looking for. I couldn’t just leave my daughter but my future couldn’t wait.
I’m like that, fi you know me, I'm very spontaneous, when I get an idea, there is nothing holding me back, haha. Of course I only got the basics from makeup school but I can tell you if you want to become a makeup artist or learning how to do makeup, the best thing you have are your hands. Your hands, training them, studying techniques about how and why. No matter what, keep asking questions and be comfortable stepping outside of your comfort zone. If I had given up everytime my makeup wasn't on fleek, then I wouldn't have evolved and got the opportunities I sealed today.
Today I work for a big brand as a freelance makeup artist and I’m learning things from a different angle. One of my closest friends Ms. Sandy Kawekwa who has Faces by Sandy (Subscribe to her channel here). She’s learned me a few tricks already when I had the opportunity of working side by side with her. So practice makes perfect, believe in yourself and try to pick up as much as you can from everyone around you. Here are my first makeup pictures. This is me a few years ago when I just started and this is a picture from this year.
