It seems like a silly concept that while my new best friend sat on the floor in front of a mirror showing me how to do my eyebrows, she was changing my life forever. This isn’t me exaggerating about how important make up is or how important looks are. It was the experience when I looked in the mirror after they were done. Over the years my opinion of myself had changed drastically so many time; just like many young girls. There were days when I thought I was beautiful but those days were few and far between whereas the days that I didn’t want to look at myself were much more common. But as I turned around I realized something, wearing make up shouldn’t be used to cover up the face I wasn’t happy with instead it was about enhancing the features that were in fact, beautiful.

Before this experience I had watched my grandmother draw on her eyebrows for years; I had gotten my lack of eyebrows from her. Around the time that I became old enough to learn from her, she was gone, cancer took her away. After that I didn’t find an interest in it, I didn’t have her, and I had a lot more going on in my life.

But that day, as my friends and I giggled and ddi make up I had a moment. When I turned around to see this face, this face with eyebrows and red lipstick, I realized something. I saw her. Looking me right in the face, the woman that I had missing for all these years. In that moment I decided something, I had all these loving people around me, true friends that wanted the best for me and it was time to want the best for myself. Those eyebrows had changed something inside me and that was when I decided that makeup was no longer something to cover up my bad days, but something to enhance my good days.

Just that night I not only changed the look of my face, but my outlook on life. That just because there is something you don’t like, doesn’t mean you give up on the big picture completely.