My fascination with makeup began at a middle school girls sleepover, where an older classmate applied eyeliner on me for the first time. From that point on, I was hooked! Through consistent practice, I mastered various techniques, from liquid cat eye and cut crease with funky colors, to expanding my look by rocking over-plucked brows (hey, it was the 90s!), and enhancing my lips with a variety of nude or colored shades. Shortly after, I created a small business during my high school and college years, providing makeup application services to friends’ school pictures, quincineras, bat mitzvahs, graduation photos, etc.

I have always thought to myself that I could wear my own eyeliner and full brows every day for the rest of my life. It’s just who I am! However, like many folks who wear makeup, I faced several drawbacks to daily makeup application. My very reactive hormonal skin could never quite take to foundation – it often made my skin worse! Application was very time consuming, and I felt the need to apply it before trivial events like the gym, going out in any public setting, or before my partner would wake up, because I would always think that they wouldn’t like me without my eyebrows. Plus, who doesn’t struggle with feeling confident at the beach or the pool when their makeup is bound to swim away?

Alas! I never muted my self-expression despite the obstacles I faced through my relationship with makeup. My struggles, if anything, helped mold my beauty ethics, and fueled my journey into providing semi-permanent makeup services to my community. As a business owner with a glowing, entrepreneurial spirit, I always pursued my passions in the arts and pushed the limits of my self-expression through body art, symbolic tattoos, piercings, and mermaid hair. When I saw an ad for permanent makeup, I instantly knew it was my calling. I have spent years cultivating a surgeon-steady hand with liquid cat eyes, and I was prepared to change lives! I began my licensing program, and theory and practical application training in 2015, and opened up my first studio at the beginning of 2016. I continued to study and apprentice under some of the worlds most renowned artists throughout my career. I can proudly announce that I am a product of my own industry and have a full face of permanent makeup: brows, liner, lips.