Falling for Makeup: A Beginner's Guide 001
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Today on the blog I
wanted dive deep into makeup. But no, it's not going to be a review, first
impression or any of that today. What I wanted to talk about was the
experience of makeup, from starting out as a newbie with an infatuation into becoming a more experienced makeup enthusiast. I
won’t venture off into calling myself a pro though, because I feel like I still have quite a way to
go. I want to share my experiences, tips, tricks and suggestions that I have
gathered over the past 3 years with you all.
For this initial post
however, what I want to share are the beginnings of my experience with makeup in
going from a hate to love relationship.
So the story begins at the age of 14. This is the age where
I first remember having a conscious opinion on cosmetics and the opinion wasn’t a good one.
At that point I was in high school and makeup wasn’t allowed. A strict no no. But there are rebels in every school, and for every rule there's someone to break it. I would see girls
going around sporting it and constantly getting in trouble for it. I didn’t
understand the point of it, the simple thing would’ve just been to not wear it.
And when we start doing makeup for the first time, it doesn’t look too well done in the beginning stages. We’ve all
been there – don’t lie. And so this was what the girls at school would rock
behind the teachers’ backs. I didn't get why someone would risk getting sent to the office just to wear blue eyeshadow. So I hope you can see why I was so perplexed about
the infatuation. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that makeup could look good, but I
thought that you would have to have a makeup artist at your disposal to get anything near presentable. Yeah.
Fast-forward to age 16 and I somehow find myself watching
the likes of Tanya Burr and Zoella on YouTube. They made applying makeup look
so effortless with glamorous end results and it looked so fun that I wanted to
try.
Now that the interest was there, that’s when things got
hard. Thoughts like:
What do I buy?
Man, makeup can be expensive.
What’s a must in the beginning?
Where can I shop for affordable with quality included?
Why does my cat eye look so off?
And this is why I want to start this series on my blog, so
that I could address these questions. I now feel that I’m in a position of enough
experience to share some tips that are worthwhile and so I hope that you tune in for the next instalment
of Falling for Makeup.
If you liked this post or if there is something that you’d
specifically like to see in this series, please let me know in the comments below. Your
comments and support means a lot to me. Also, I just want to apologise for missing last week's post. I wasn't able to get this one ready in time to go up on Tuesday, and then I didn't want to upload it on Wednesday because that would just mess up the whole Tuesday posting schedule that I have going and the OCD inside would not allow. And so here it is a week later. I hope you enjoyed it.
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