Hello Beautiful People!!
If you weren't able to tell by the website ... I'm Megan J. A Jersey girl that decided to do makeup 8 years ago (12 years at this point ) and never looked back. Well except for that one time but that's not the point.
To be honest, I guess I've always liked makeup. Like most little girls, I used to watch my mom do her makeup and play in her red lipstick when she wasn't paying attention. I vividly remember being a little girl and begging my mother to do my makeup before bath time. One day she actually granted my wish. A wash of shadow on my lids, mascara on my lashes, heavy blush on my cheeks and a bright red lipstick that made me feel like such a grown up. Which reminds me, I need to make sure I do the same with my daughter....
Over the years I guess I've always experimented with makeup. Remember that flavored lip gloss from the beauty supply store? Cherry or Chocolate flavored lip gloss with a brown lip liner. Yeah that was ALL me in high school. (Thinking about this now makes me shiver) Then there was that time I wore a red eyeliner on my bottom lid and my brother told me I looked like a clown. In his defense I'm sure it only made me look sickly but if I had just smoked it out with a darker shadow and popped on a lash, I might have been in business.
Sometime before 2010, I was getting ready to go on a date and of course I wanted to look cute so I called my sister for advice. She told me to go on YouTube and look up some videos. Apparently, YouTube is this site full of videos that show you how to do your makeup, hair, bake, weld... etc. So now I was exposed to all that is YouTube, and remember at that time it wasn't the YouTube you currently know. Not only were people making these informative videos but most of the people I was subscribed to at that time were also working makeup artists. HUH? That's a real job? Since nursing school wasn't working out for me at that time, I decided to take it one step further. That one step further would be the start of my business, several friendships, a multitude of experiences and unintentionally my own personal growth.
So, that’s the short of how I began as a makeup artist and the journey has never been perfect. Becoming a business owner is one of my greatest joys, but can also be stressful at times. I’m currently working on not allowing fear to block my blessings and to step out on faith with my business. This calls for me to take a long hard look at what I’ve been doing (or not doing) and make adjustments. For instance, this blog entry was originally created on September 19th, 2017…. It’s taken me years to build up the courage to release my fears and just POST. Honestly, it’s because I knew that would mean I had to accept responsibility and become way more consistent than I had been for a long time within my business. Guess this means that I’m ready to step up and out on faith.
Lets try this blog thing …
xoxo Megan J.
Photo Credit: By C'est La Zee