This question always takes me a while to think about, and a while to answer even though I get asked it so often. Truthfully, I'm not entirely sure!
Going waayyyyy back to when I was in the first few years of high school, I was rubbish at makeup. I wasn't aloud to many discos when I was young so therefore I never really needed to learn although I still would try my best for random days of school or going into town on a Friday evening. I still remember using a very pale and very yellow shade of 'MissSporty' foundation, this phase ended when I came off the bus home to my male cousin telling me I looked like a member of the Simpsons - In the bin it went. After that me and my best friend Ciara moved onto dream matte mouse, that weird dry foundation mouse in the glass pot. This didn't go well either, most of the time I asked Ciara to do it for me.
My older sister Ellen was really into YouTube and bloggers, before it was really a thing, being a younger sister I also developed a love for it. I still remember watching the og's like Desi Perkins and Christen Dominique all filming for their YouTube in one huge warehouse where they all had their own little offices decorated like a home.
My friends in school thought I was crazy, because nobody watched YouTube at this point, or at least not religiously watching the same people about their lifestyle/ fashion/ makeup. But I didn't care, I loved it and loved experimenting with different techniques I had watched. Everyone now is glowing to the gods, but I seen on youtube someone used highlighter, so in I went to my mums makeup box where I found a little cardboard box from no7. "illuminator". The next day in school I proudly wore my new fascination of highlighter on my cheekbones as people asked "whats this new white glittery stuff we have on today?", white glittery stuff was not the look I was going for.
So between not having any makeup skills and falling in-love with YouTube, I think I just developed a passion for it. I became more and more interested, and determined to perfect my skills. I came home from school trying out 3 or 4 makeup looks on myself (my mum for sure thought I was crazy), learning how to stick on Primark lashes and get my under eye concealer brighter than a 15 year old probably needed. This led to makeup lessons with Paddy Mcgurgan, to practicing on my friends and family, getting an amazing opportunity of working as a makeup artist and Eden Beauty, to becoming a self- employed makeup artist.
I suppose thats how I got into my DREAM career!
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