I recently graduated
from an online course to become a Pro- Makeup artist and was chosen as the top
student of the class and I am now featured on their website. I wanted to share
my story of my passion for this field as well as the final piece I created for
graduation. For my final piece, I wanted to do a look that not only shows my
talent as aspiring makeup artists but also my passion for creating art. I am
obsessed with butterflies and for this piece I wanted to make my eyes look like
the side view of butterfly wings. I love to use bright bold colors against very
black “false and dramatic” eyelashes and feathers. I actually made these lashes
by cutting down feathers and adding them to a set of eyelashes from the Makeup
Forever line. This look took me about 4 hours to complete due to the technical
aspects of making the lashes and applying all the makeup, and I feel that it
shows my ability as well as passion for creating any style with makeup.
My love for
makeup came at a very young age. I remember growing up and my mother buying my
sisters and me little play makeup kits and I would keep mine nice and neat and
I was so fascinated at how different colored eye shadows and lipsticks made the
face change. In junior high and high school I was known as the “makeup guru”
any little amount of money I would make from babysitting I would spend on
different eye shadow colors or lip glosses; you name it I had to have it. I was
known for my dramatic cat eye eyeliner and different eye shadow colors that
would match my outfits. For Halloween I would take liquid eyeliner and draw
spider webs with spiders coming from my eyes. My first job as a practicing
makeup artists began when I was a senior in high school, and that is truly when
I fell in love with the makeup artistry industry. I began doing makeup for proms
and moving my way up to wedding parties. The owner of the salon found it so
fascinating that I could take one look at the persons complexion and know
exactly what shade of makeup to use and what color eye shadows would suite the
person well and how to apply the products well without any formal training. For
proms all the girls loved my “glitter line” which I would draw a very thin line
of glitter (any color) above the eye liner to enhance the eye shadow and really
make the eye pop. But what really made me want to become a professional makeup
artist was the joy I would leave on girls faces as well as older women after
they had a mini transformation. Just by simply applying products to the face to
enhance someone’s natural beauty and have that person beam and be so grateful
for how you made them look and feel afterwards is really an amazing feeling. Graduating
from this school was an amazing experience and I really did learn a lot and
want to further my career as a makeup artist.
