When I was younger, I never would have thought that makeup would be a part of my life. If only the younger me could see me now, she’d probably ask me, “what in the world are you thinking?” Personally, as a child, I enjoyed playing sports and having fun outside. My mom encouraged me to have fun I say this because she did sign me up for soccer, softball, track, and gymnastics. At the time I didn’t care about putting makeup on my face, wearing dresses, or playing with dolls. My mom, on the other hand, wanted me to in her words ‘act more like a girl’ because apparently I dressed and acted like a dude.
I did get some of my clothes from the guys section, but that’s because their clothes were more comfortable and their graphic tees were better than the pink overload in the girls section. The thing is I enjoyed the time I saved not having to put makeup on. I also despised wearing dresses because I felt as if they put a limit on the things you can do. For example, let’s say I’m wearing a dress and my friends want to go play ball. I can’t cross anybody up if I’m wearing a dress. The time I saved not doing my makeup gave me more time to spend outside playing kickball, going on adventures with my friends or sleeping in. I would come home with a new scratch or scrape almost every day as if it was some sort of trophy. This is what I called living and it was great.
Although, I can say my point of view on makeup changed when I got older. I began watching more beauty gurus on YouTube and saying to myself you could do that. I started watching hair tutorials, then makeup and boom I was hooked. I was trying out new products, doing different looks, and practicing on other people. Back in about 2016 people were doing these weird makeup challenge fails that I found entertaining. They were doing challenges like makeup with wet brushes, or do a full face of makeup only using kids makeup. Makeup has no rules and I think that’s why I like it so much. Some people completely change the way they look with makeup, and some just simply enhance their own features. It’s truly an innovative creation for everyone, men and women alike. Makeup is the paint and your face is the canvas it’s all in how you choose to use it.
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I’m not going to say i’ve changed completely, I can still say I like going outside, but now I’m going outside with the intent for my makeup to be sweat proof and snatched to the gods. I think my mom is happy about it because she is always asking me if I can do her makeup or what specific products I recommend for her to use. I can remember one day after school, my junior year of high school I came home after being in this creative mood all day. My mom was cooking dinner and I had just watched a YouTube video by rawbeautykristi where she did a colorful almost rainbow eye-shadow look.
Rawbeautykristi used pink, purple, blue, yellow, and orange and it had a metallic cut crease, matte crease, and these large, fluffy false lashes the look was amazing. Of course, I’m just now starting off in makeup and my look turned out completely different from Kristi’s. I asked my mom ‘if you would mind if I did your makeup when we finish eating?’ she said ‘yes’. I went to my room to get all of my makeup together, my foundation, concealer, eye-shadow, etc. When we finished eating I brought my makeup to the kitchen table because the lighting in the kitchen is better than the rest of the house.
I was nervous because I wanted it to look as precise as possible. I started off with eye-shadow so that the fall out wouldn’t ruin the foundation. It was really frustrating because the colors kept blending away and they were very patchy. I thought that it looked like shit because I didn’t know what I was doing turns out the palette just wasn’t the best. Just to put this out there I do not recommend the drug store ‘wet n wild’ 391A art in the streets palette. I ended up finishing the look but it was completely different than what I intended it to be. My mom said I did a good job but of course I didn’t believe her because she’s my mom and it’s her job to make feel better about crappy work that I’ve done.
In the end I’m glad my mom prompted me to start doing makeup and I’m thankful that she let me practice my makeup techniques on her face. It has given me a opportunity to be more creative even in different aspects of life that don’t involve makeup. It has pushed me to step out of my comfort zone and try different techniques, products, and colors. It has allowed me to be more artistic and I’m not much of a painter but makeup has made it possible for me to be more expressive. I feel like when I wear makeup I can say something without saying anything. Personally, I still don’t like wearing makeup on a everyday basis because after a while your face becomes lighter than your body an you look sickly. No offence to anyone who may look like that. But one day if I did want to wear makeup and play some ball I think I could do it and still look snatched at the end of the day.
