Make-Up Artistry and Photography

Growing up, I was always fascinated by make-up. It started with my mother who had a lot of make-up and I would watch her putting it on. On some occasions she also let me try it, and I loved it. When I became a teenager, and was 13 years old, I was not allowed to put make-up on when going to school. Which now I think was a good thing. Later my mother allowed me to put some mascara on, but that took awhile before she let me :)

Later in my teenage years I started to use foundation every day. I would not even go out the door without make up. This was due to insecurity of my looks. I though I was ugly without it. Later I realized, I had taken this over from my mother. She was very insecure about her appearance, especially as she grew older. She would never, ever go out without make up. Although I always appreciated she took good care and made herself look good. I realized the sad part in this was, no matter what she did it was never enough to accept herself completely.

When I later in life realized the effect my mothers insecurities had on me. I changed my perspective on myself and make-up. Instead of hiding myself behind a mask. I began to see make-up more as an empowerment, and could be used to highlight the already beautiful aspects of someone’s face. Instead of completely changing ones features. When I met my husband, who liked me with or without make up, I got more confident to put the mask off. Cause when someone sees you, and especially when you start to see yourself, you don’t need to hide anymore. 

What I always loved of putting make-up on someone, is when that person is happy and gets to feel even more beautiful. Especially when I gave some girlfriends a make over after they found out their husbands were cheating on them with another woman. Cause that does some damage to your self-image. I would style their hair, put make-up on them and make pictures. Cause I wanted show them a different view of themselves. And change the bad self-image that cheating creates on someones self-esteem.  

My father was a photographer and when he had photoshoots, my mother would do the make-up. She always said for making pictures you have to put more make-up on the model than normal, cause it will disappear in the picture. Learning make-up tips from my mom was great, but learning to really do make-up, was when I started a make-up artist education. I was doing photography as a hobby, and wanted to know more about make-up artistry. So I could do both when making pictures. As I before got my knowledge from watching YouTube tutorials.