5 things makeup taught me

1. To accept yourself flaws and all

I know to most people there probably thinking “how did makeup teach you to accept yourself when your covering your flaws?” and I can I see why you would question that. So, let me explain, makeup has taught me to accept myself because when I sit down to do my make I have to face my flaws head on in the mirror and no matter what they don’t go away. I’ve never like the way I’ve looked in the mirror I always think “oh you have a fat face” or “ugh so many pimples” and with me thinking that I was never confident enough to really be happy with my makeup, I would spend all of the time putting it on and was never happy because I was constantly thinking about how fat my face was or something but then I realized how do I expect people to love my makeup if I don’t know. I knew that if I was going to love my makeup I need to love what was under it. So, after some soul searching I found beauty in myself without the makeup and now I’m as confident as ever now!! Always remember love who you are with out the enhancing!!!

2. Patience

Before I started makeup, patience didn’t exist because I’m using to just getting stuff done, I thought that doing makeup was going to be easy I was wrong big time. But with a lot of practice and a lot of YouTube videos I eventually learn and still learning.

3. Think outside of the box

In my opinion this is the most important part of learning and doing make up, only because when you’re trying new things or working with a client, it easier to stay in your comfort zone and that was another struggle for me, before I was just a plane jane, I would only use golds, browns, and nudes because for me it was the “safe” zone but I knew if I wanted to go anywhere with my makeup career I had to expand my colors. Use colors!!!

4. Don’t be afraid!

This is one is simple, just go for it!! Experiment and have fun!

5. Following my dreams

This one is my favorite! Throughout the process of becoming ME the one thing I’ve learned is to always follow my dreams which is why I’m here now starting this blog. For about 5 years now I’ve been wanting to start a blog, Instagram and YouTube, but because I always thought I wasn’t good enough I never did it. The reason why I thought that because I would watch people on YouTube like Alisha Marie, Remi, Mia Stammer, I could name more but this would be way too long lol but to get back to what I was saying watching them on YouTube I would think I would never be like them and so I would just talk myself out of it. But recently I’ve had a huge change of heart and I’ve decided to go for it and so far, I’ve had positive feedback and I feel so good and accomplished because I’m doing it for myself. So, I’ve learned to stop comparing myself to other people and do what QIANA wants to do and don’t worry about anyone else!!!

Wakeup and slay the day!!