Real talk

I just want to talk to you guys about something that has been on my heart .
I know a lot of people struggle with insecurities and have a lot of confidence issues and this is very important to me and I want to say that this is real talk and if you can't handle real talk then don't bother reading the rest of this post.

I want to talk about makeup obviously but specifically talking about insecurities and a lot of struggles that people face and it's mostly girls. Girls are very vulnerable because they are very emotional and I don't want make up to be your goto for a confidence boost because that's so  materialistic. I'm okay with changing hair color changing your eye color putting on makeup and all these other things that people have to offer us to enhance our beauty. But if you're doing this to mask who you are throw it all away. No 1 on this planet has the right to judge you not 1 person can tell you that you are not beautiful just the way you are so don't run to make up to cover up something so pure so beautiful. It is like a canvas a pure white canvas beauty is in the canvas only a true artist can see the beauty inside of it and it is his job to release that beauty. Paint is not hide the canvas its to bring out the artwork that is with inside of it just like how makeup isn't supposed to cover who we are but just to enhance are natural beauty. I want to make this very clear because many many people struggle with so many insecurities and they run to different materials to make them feel beautiful to make them beautiful but I have to say that you are beautiful makeup does not make you beautiful makeup does not make you who you are so if you were masking who you are throw it all away throw everything away. If you're dying your hair you're changing your eye color you're putting on makeup to mask who you are to change who you are I will call you out on it I will call you fake because that is the exact definition of what fake really means taking all the materials this world has to offer and covering yourself covering your true identity and sorry to say this that is fake. I use to wear makeup every single day because I wanted to cover up how i really felt inside I didn't like the person that was underneath all the makeup and I didn't want to see that person so I applied make up I dyed my hair I did all these things to change who I appeared to be to other people and I realized that is not right so I threw away every single piece of makeup that I own anything that was able to change how I naturally looked I just tossed it.  I went a couple years without makeup and I left my hair natural and it made me get use to the fact that this is who I am and I can't change it. I realized if I don't like myself then who will you know I needed to go through a phase where I just had to love myself because if you didn't like yourself you didn't like your personality you're not comfortable with you yourself how is anybody else going to like you. So after the self loving phase I felt comfortable with make up because I knew that I was not applying makeup to cover up who I am I'm not applying make up to
appear different to other people. I decided to be a makeup artist not because I enjoy painting people's faces but i want to make people look beautiful to help people realize you are beautiful naturally make up is just there to enhance it to intensify it and that's what I wanna do.

1 last thing before I end this post I just want to tell you guys that you are all beautiful no matter what because in God's eyes you were made perfect perfectly for him and only him and just remember I will call you out I'll call you fake if you're using all these materials just a cover up who you are to say this again throw it all away unless you enjoy being fake so go right ahead.

I hope everyone is having a beautiful day. And I love each and everyone of you.

-Brittanie Cruz
Blank Canvas