I challenge each woman out there to wake up in the morning, and apply your best, basic day look. I promise you, if you compare that day to one where you go to work bare faced and feel groggy, slow, cranky, and uninspired, the day with makeup will feel brighter, cheerier, and more productive. I think that makeup can be a lot like a good therapy session.
Having a background in esthetics helps me as a makeup artist because I've learned little tricks along the way that help to enhance a person's best features. I love my job as an Aesthetician and Freelance Makeup Artist because I'm able to see the evolution of a woman from her first esthetic visit to the present.
Women are visual creatures...when we are pleased with what we see in the mirror, we feel good, we eat the right things, we are more productive, happier, healtier...the list goes on and on.
I've seen so many women walk into our spa feeling unremarkable and insignificant about their lives, and after weeks of treatment, and often after just one treatment, they are a more beautiful, and confident because they feel good about themselves and their place in the world.
When I'm doing a someones's makeup, I get to see that process happen in a little less than an hour. When a woman looks at herself in the mirror after a session and I see the sudden glow that she has from within - that is what fuels my passion. A woman realizing her beauty is the only motivation I need to learn and evolve each day, to become the best at what i do.
Kelly
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. "
-Sophia Loren
about me.
Growing up, I was always one of those little girls who would chop off my Barbie's hair, then pull out my trusty little makeup kit, and go to town to give Barbie her own unique look. Unfortunately, back then, I didn't have the same artistic eye for makeup as I do now. My dolls typically ended up looking like they were thrown into the washer and dryer with a box of crayons, but my heart was always in it. I always knew that I wanted to be involved in the beauty industry in some way...so, naturally, I started my post-college career in social services working with small children.
Makes sense, right?
Eventually I figured out that this line of work just was not for me, and chose to go back to school to be involved with something that always made me truly happy - beauty.
Everyone has something about them that makes them beautiful, whether it's a big nose that they never liked, or eyes that they feel are too far apart. When a person starts to embrace their odd-looking features is when they become truly beautiful. Confidence is something that tends to be overlooked by many people, and something that makes me confident - no matter how horrible I feel when I wake up in the morning - is putting on a little mascara, lip gloss, and blush before going about my day.
Kelly Paronish, Aesthetician at Evolution Medical Spa and Freelance Makeup Artist
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