Return Of The Mac.

Been away for ages I am sorry I've been working and getting caught up in Christmas and being lazy!! But I'm back and going to try and be more dedicated.
Here is what has been on my mind today and the past few weeks as I've been feeling discouraged! So if you are as well hopefully it will refresh you like it has me!

I've been thinking about how hard it is to prove yourself as a Make-Up Artist as there are so many of us out there, all wanting the same jobs and all wanting to be paid for it. Its not easy and its a lot of competition but what I think, is that as a MUA you have to prepare yourself for a lot of rejections and let downs and a lot of FREE WORK. Its a bit like an actor or singer I guess, it takes so much to get noticed but when you eventually do it pays off everything and more that you did in the first place.

I see make-up as an art and thats what I like to think sets me apart from a lot of other people. Thousands and millions of girls have perfected their own make-up regimes and whilst they might go about it differently to those of us who have been trained, the end results cant really be faulted. So whats the point in training? I see the point in being trained is to find your hidden talents, anyone can be good with a bronzer and a mascara and  do normal day to day basic make-up but it actually takes a skill to create a piece of art on the face. There are subtlities that can speak volumes to an eye of someone in the industry and the most simplest make-ups can still be the best.

Any art can be looked at by an every day person, but that every day person may never be able to see the beauty or the power or the secret subtly behind it that made that painting great, purely because they don't have the passion nor the understanding regardless of whether its been explained a million times. Make-Up to me is the same; a massive force that with great ideas and talent can come amazing things. There's always an inspiration or a reason behind the most fantastic make-ups and everything has been done for a reason whether its blindly visible or not. The smallest things can represent the biggest things and it takes passion and a love to want to build on that which makes a good MUA.

I would genuinely say some of my friends are better at doing their make-up than me on a day to day basis, and I'd definately say they put in a lot more detail and product into getting themselves perfect, and a lot of the time they do acheive perfection. That doesnt worry me and if it did I wouldnt be setting my sights for the future very high at all. They might be able to do a great colour match and do a good straight line of eyeliner, but can they take someones vision or their own and turn it into a reality... Can they take an idea and go with it and see where it might take them? Be given a loose framework to go by and create something from it? I've never asked them but I doubt they could because with make-up they see it as a beauty regime and part of their life and not the bigger picture of how it is an art form and a skill that can create hugely powerful images.

So to round up, I'd just like to say that after thinking about this all day and originally feeling down about my career as an MUA because finding work currently is a struggle, especially finding continuity in paid work; I feel refreshed and happy. I know what direction I want to take in my life and I know through some form or another I will get there. I know what it takes and I see beyond the surface of "I am trained to make you look pretty"....

YAY ME.
BYE
xX