I grew up in a family made up of mostly females (this was the case when I was growing up. Now, the boys in my family are expanding and it won't stop!). The women in my family loved to look and feel "beautiful". This is when I started to get interested in the beauty and "magic" of makeup.
Even when I was a little girl, I noticed the change in behavior after my aunties applied makeup. To me, they seemed much more confident and, well, happy. Other than this, ever since baby, I have NEVER seen my mother without makeup on! - it's insane. So, at age three, I started playing with makeup - not as anything too serious, more literally as a game. I would ask to apply makeup on my family member's faces and remember thinking that it was the funniest game out there to play! Although I was extremely bad at makeup, I too felt how amazing it was to play with makeup! Now I was never really serious with makeup until age 11. This is when all the girls in my school started wearing lip balm and mascara to school. I remember feeling so left out and sad because I didn't know how to put makeup on properly. So the first thing I did when I got home was ask my mother how to put mascara on. At 13 was when eyeliner came into my life. I remember feeling gorgeous. Like I was on top of the world. I wanted to be just like my mother and I was one step closer! And then brows at 14. And finally, my mother slowly let me collect makeup (they were mostly her hand-me-downs but I was over the moon!). I started with the world’s worst eyebrows. Starting with drawing a circle at the start of my eyebrow and filling it in, then extending it to the other end - hideous! This is when I discovered YouTube makeup tutorials - this was the start of it all. I would come home from school and practice every single day until one day at 15 I remember starting to get compliments by school friends on my makeup. This was my motivation. Fast forward to now. I am certified makeup artist and STILL completely in love with makeup. Don't get me wrong, I feel beautiful with or without it - but - to me, its art. I could turn myself into whoever, match my makeup with the personality I am that day and feel absolutely amazing doing it!
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