So before I get into this post, I realize I haven’t followed up on some of my recent series. Trust and believe those follow up post will be coming soon. With my short film series, I haven’t been able to find a short film I feel like posting. I want to post good content so just be patient with that. With my other series, I just haven’t had the motivation to do them, but I am a woman of my word and I will be sure to get those posts up soon. For today’s post however, I would like to share a video. Now, this might appeal more to my people who enjoy makeup. Though, if you are wondering about the world of makeup and want to get a taste of it, I would suggest you keep reading. My experience with makeup has been…short lived but is on going. My sister was the one who got me into makeup. She started around this age, mind you I’m 16 and she’s 20 now so she definitely has more experience than me. I would always watch her do her makeup and I would be so jealous because I wasn’t allowed to put on makeup yet. As soon as I turned 15, I begged my mom to let me start wearing makeup and she let me. She didn’t let me do a full face of makeup at first which is understandable. I knew she wouldn’t let me use foundation or concealer or lipstick yet, but I could do my eyebrows and lashes. I was perfectly fine with this since I thought it would be easier to learn how to do my eyebrows and lashes first anyway. My eyebrow journey was indeed a long one. I started off by using an eyebrow pencil, but once I learned how to do that I moved onto brow pomade. I want to insert some pictures so y’all could see, but me not being internet savvy, I can’t seem to figure out how. After mastering my brows, which I truly mastered over the past summer, I moved to lashes. Now this was a challenge. Putting on false lashes was the hardest thing to do in my life. My hand used to shake bad when I was working on a specific thing so that made it so much more harder. I eventually mastered it and now it’s like second nature to me. When I turned 16, I could finally do full faces. Luckily this would be the easy part. My sister did help me a lot at this stage, but she could only do so much. I practiced a lot over the past summer. When I say a lot—I mean a lot. I eventually got my routine down when I do a full face, but I still need more practice in this stage to fully master it. One thing that has helped me a lot has been Youtube videos. Yes, I’ve finally said it. YouTube videos have saved my life LOL. Specifically Jackie Aina. Jackie is a black MUA (Makeup Artist) who is just wonderful and so talented at makeup. Her tutorials have helped me so much. In fact, this whole post has led to a video I’m going to share. This particular video is one of her more, say, family friendly videos. Not that her videos are inappropriate but they do have some content that may not be for everybody. In this video, Jackie shares the screen with her lively niece Jade. This is one of my favorite videos because it is so cute to see her niece play around in Jackie’s makeup. I hope you enjoy!
My eyebrow journey was long too lol! I could totally relate with your experiences with makeup. Thanks for sharing.