I am once again borrowing my mother's camera to make more YouTube makeup tutorials and videos! I am very excited...this week my creative juices have been flowing, although I haven't made an actual tutorial yet, I did make a couple of videos just talking about tips and advice. I have plenty of ideas bouncing around in my brain at the moment so you can expect to see some new things coming very soon!
My goal is to one day have quite a high number of followers. I want to try to do some more unique looks. I love doing the more creative stuff and I find as I watch other makeup tutorials on YouTube that are directed more at beauty makeup, a lot of it tends to look the same to me. I'm not sure if anyone feels that same...but there's only so many ways I want to show you all how to do a smoky eye before that gets really boring.
I don't know if anyone even reads this blog, but if you do, thank-you for taking an interest! I want lots of feedback...if you have questions about anything at all, please let me know and I will answer them as best I can! Thank-you for supporting me...whoever you may be!
c2
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Growing Up
Lately I've been wanting to improve in all aspects of my life: my relationships, my attitude toward work, my business, my health, my personality toward strangers...the list goes on. In fact, the list could go on forever and really, there is no possible way that I could perfect everything. Sometimes I feel stressed because my "to do" list always seems overwhelming and impossible to complete. I started reading this book recently that my best friend lent me. It's called, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's all small stuff" by Richard Carlson. It really brought back into perspective what is important in my life and made me realise simple ways to stay positive and enjoy life - because we only have one life and we're living it right now! We have to make the best of it. (So thank-you for that, Kim!!!)
So this blog isn't really too makeup-related. Although, makeup is a large part of my life; it's my career! So I guess it ties in. I have been working fairly steadily at expanding my portfolio and improving my website etc. And I plan to keep working hard at it - but I'm trying to also balance other things in my life in order to enjoy the simple things. It can be difficult at times to have the time for everyone and everything. I have a husband first and foremost, and many pets to take care of. I have a couple best friends that I'm quite close with, as well as new friends I'm building relationships with. I have my business priorities that I'm constantly replying to emails and requests, so I have to stay on top of that. My work is separate and luckily I only work 4 days a week! I have my family; all my parents who each need separate visits and siblings that have busy schedules as well. No wonder life can be overwhelming!!! To me, these are all the most important things that need attention in my life...and I'm still learning how to do it all.
As we become adults, we get all of these responsibilities and life changes so much. I feel like this is the year that I'm really, truly changing into an adult. I've been thinking about how things will never be the same. Sometimes I feel scared. Sometimes I don't like it. But, I'm learning to accept it - slowly but surely. Almost all of my friends are at different places in their lives right now, so sometimes it's hard to relate to anybody. I know that this will pass someday, and things will become easier again. All I can do is keep chugging through and remember that it is all small stuff in the whole scheme of things and not to get too overwhelmed. There are a lot of people in our lives that we love, but sometimes we can't please everyone. As long as you are genuinely trying your best (which for a while there, I wasn't), then that's all you can do! So for these transitional stages in life, just keep your focus on what matters most to you...and work on that.
c2
So this blog isn't really too makeup-related. Although, makeup is a large part of my life; it's my career! So I guess it ties in. I have been working fairly steadily at expanding my portfolio and improving my website etc. And I plan to keep working hard at it - but I'm trying to also balance other things in my life in order to enjoy the simple things. It can be difficult at times to have the time for everyone and everything. I have a husband first and foremost, and many pets to take care of. I have a couple best friends that I'm quite close with, as well as new friends I'm building relationships with. I have my business priorities that I'm constantly replying to emails and requests, so I have to stay on top of that. My work is separate and luckily I only work 4 days a week! I have my family; all my parents who each need separate visits and siblings that have busy schedules as well. No wonder life can be overwhelming!!! To me, these are all the most important things that need attention in my life...and I'm still learning how to do it all.
As we become adults, we get all of these responsibilities and life changes so much. I feel like this is the year that I'm really, truly changing into an adult. I've been thinking about how things will never be the same. Sometimes I feel scared. Sometimes I don't like it. But, I'm learning to accept it - slowly but surely. Almost all of my friends are at different places in their lives right now, so sometimes it's hard to relate to anybody. I know that this will pass someday, and things will become easier again. All I can do is keep chugging through and remember that it is all small stuff in the whole scheme of things and not to get too overwhelmed. There are a lot of people in our lives that we love, but sometimes we can't please everyone. As long as you are genuinely trying your best (which for a while there, I wasn't), then that's all you can do! So for these transitional stages in life, just keep your focus on what matters most to you...and work on that.
c2
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Establishing a Business
I think I have been very fortunate so far with my makeup career. I never really planned to be a makeup artist when I was younger, in fact I didn't know what I was going to do for my career. I always knew that I wanted to do something with art, I just didn't know what. Then one day, my sister came to me and showed me an ad in the newspaper for a makeup artistry program at a school downtown. I had been going to college for communications and at that point knew it wasn't something I wanted to continue. So I looked into this course and everything fell into place from there.
After I graduated, actually just before, I had landed a job at Merle Norman. Needless to say, it wasn't the best 9 months of my life. I quickly realized that I had potential to do something better and I wanted to be happy. I applied to Spa Utopia just in the nick of time and was hired in December of 2006. I think that doing a lot of volunteer makeup jobs (fashion shows, theatre makeup for local schools, photo shoots etc.) helped a lot with my experience and looked really good on my resume. I have been happily employed at Spa Utopia for the past 3 and a half years now and I still love it.
So why am I doing freelance? Mostly because it works for me and I have some big dreams I want to pursue. I am lucky to have 3 days off a week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. And Fridays and Saturdays tend to be a little busier when it comes to weddings and demand for makeup for special events. So that works out really well for me. I live about 40 minutes away from my work, so majority of my freelance clients are in my area and always looking specifically for someone to come into their home to do makeup for them. This is something that my workplace doesn't really offer. I am loyal to my workplace though, and I never tell guests of Spa Utopia that I offer this service because I do not want to take their business. If the spa asks me to do this for them, through them, I am willing to. All of my personal clients are unable or not willing to travel to the spa for makeup.
Another reason I am doing this is because I enjoy it - of course! And why do we work? To make money. Unfortunately working 4 days a week doesn't pay all of the bills, and with the recession, my husband has been laid off for the past while. If I hadn't been taking clients, life would have been a lot harder. I have been very fortunate to have had enough bookings to get by and even save a little bit. It's really exciting.
I have no plan to leave Spa Utopia for a long, long, long time. I really do love it there and my work situation is perfect for me. It is such a wonderful place to be. But my ultimate dream one day would be to live off doing photo shoots year round, and weddings from spring to fall. I am not too sure when I will get there and I know I have a long way to go. It's going to take a lot of hard work building my portfolio, getting my name out there, meeting and networking with lots of people, and spending a lot of time on the paperwork side of things. I want my name to be well-known. Oh, what a life it would be to be flown all over the world for my talents!!! Yes, I am dreaming big, baby! So far, things have come fairly easily to me and I know it may not always be that way. So I am going to always do my very best.
c2
After I graduated, actually just before, I had landed a job at Merle Norman. Needless to say, it wasn't the best 9 months of my life. I quickly realized that I had potential to do something better and I wanted to be happy. I applied to Spa Utopia just in the nick of time and was hired in December of 2006. I think that doing a lot of volunteer makeup jobs (fashion shows, theatre makeup for local schools, photo shoots etc.) helped a lot with my experience and looked really good on my resume. I have been happily employed at Spa Utopia for the past 3 and a half years now and I still love it.
So why am I doing freelance? Mostly because it works for me and I have some big dreams I want to pursue. I am lucky to have 3 days off a week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. And Fridays and Saturdays tend to be a little busier when it comes to weddings and demand for makeup for special events. So that works out really well for me. I live about 40 minutes away from my work, so majority of my freelance clients are in my area and always looking specifically for someone to come into their home to do makeup for them. This is something that my workplace doesn't really offer. I am loyal to my workplace though, and I never tell guests of Spa Utopia that I offer this service because I do not want to take their business. If the spa asks me to do this for them, through them, I am willing to. All of my personal clients are unable or not willing to travel to the spa for makeup.
Another reason I am doing this is because I enjoy it - of course! And why do we work? To make money. Unfortunately working 4 days a week doesn't pay all of the bills, and with the recession, my husband has been laid off for the past while. If I hadn't been taking clients, life would have been a lot harder. I have been very fortunate to have had enough bookings to get by and even save a little bit. It's really exciting.
I have no plan to leave Spa Utopia for a long, long, long time. I really do love it there and my work situation is perfect for me. It is such a wonderful place to be. But my ultimate dream one day would be to live off doing photo shoots year round, and weddings from spring to fall. I am not too sure when I will get there and I know I have a long way to go. It's going to take a lot of hard work building my portfolio, getting my name out there, meeting and networking with lots of people, and spending a lot of time on the paperwork side of things. I want my name to be well-known. Oh, what a life it would be to be flown all over the world for my talents!!! Yes, I am dreaming big, baby! So far, things have come fairly easily to me and I know it may not always be that way. So I am going to always do my very best.
c2
Long Overdue
So it has been quite some time since I last posted. I'm not going to write much tonight because it is 2:03 in the morning and I'm exhausted. I'm excited to announce that I have created a new website; one that I feel is much simpler and much more accessible to my clients. My last website was pretty cool, but it was all flash and much more complicated to edit. I like the layout of this one, and I think if I get enough good feedback, I'll finally purchase a domain name!
www.c2makeup.weebly.com
I officially registered my business as c2 Makeup a few months ago. Things are going very well. I have been pretty busy with everything. I have been doing more photo shoots just like I had hoped! I have quite a few weddings booked for this summer and I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't been doing any more tutorials on YouTube unfortunately because I had to give my mom her camera back. I would like to do more, but it does take up a lot of time as well.
I am feeling very positive and excited for what's to come. I will keep you updated.
c2
www.c2makeup.weebly.com
I officially registered my business as c2 Makeup a few months ago. Things are going very well. I have been pretty busy with everything. I have been doing more photo shoots just like I had hoped! I have quite a few weddings booked for this summer and I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't been doing any more tutorials on YouTube unfortunately because I had to give my mom her camera back. I would like to do more, but it does take up a lot of time as well.
I am feeling very positive and excited for what's to come. I will keep you updated.
c2
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