I started from the bottom and now I’m here.

Makeup had been very important to me my entire life. It helped me gain confidence, find myself, and it even helped me make new friends.

“Hey, your eyebrows are on point!”, those six words could just as well gain you new friends. Makeup is funny because it can help you build friendships. I’d be lying if I said my friends and I haven’t stayed up all night to find new indie brands or waiting for the drop of a new eyeshadow palette. Also, you need makeup friends or your whole makeup could be off. Your friends will tell you if your eyeliner is sharp enough or if your highlight is a little dull. They will help you bake your face to avoid creasing and will blend the heck out of your eyeshadow. You makeup friends are the most important because you know if they didn’t make you look good, they aren’t your true friend.

I’ve been experimenting with makeup my entire life. I’ve gone from baby blue eyeliner to silver and black smoked (barely) eyes. My makeup has also developed with my personality and confidence. I used to be afraid to wear anything other than mascara. Nowadays, my eyes need to be sharp enough to cut someone and my highlight needs to be bright enough to blind someone. This had also helped my confidence because I know if my makeup looks bomb, I feel bomb. And if you see anyone wearing dark lipstick, you are not messing with them anytime soon.

Makeup is trial and error. Some days you will completely slay the game with your makeup, but other days it may be sub par. How do you think I went from being a little girl with baby blue eyeliner to a confident individual with eyeliner for days? Practice. I watched any and every makeup tutorial on YouTube. NikkiTutorials, Jaclyn Hill, Patrick Starr, Shaaanxo, and so many other beauty gurus. These people have helped me to better appreciate makeup and take my skills to the next level.

I think what drew me into makeup so much was how no one did it the same. There was no right or wrong reason to doing makeup. If you wanted to wear green lipstick, you will wear green lipstick. Makeup is so freeing because it's like art and your face is the canvas. You can wear whatever you what because it's your face. Sure, others can tell you that things look weird, but the beauty of it is, you don't have to listen to them! Makeup is makeup and you can wear it however you want because at the end of the day, it'll come off.

Now, If you can rock a natural bare-faced beauty look, more power to you! I’m not saying everyone needs makeup to be beautiful, because I love myself even without makeup on. The whole point of writing this was to express my views on makeup and inspired others to try it. It helped me gain my confidence and best friends. Makeup is fun and experimental. Everyone starts from the bottom, but soon we will all reach the top and have the best eyebrows anyone has ever seen.