What Makes A Makeup Diva Run?

What makes a makeup diva? Well, for me, it started with my mom, watching her get ready when her and my dad went on a date night. She's spend a couple hours getting ready, always looking like a movie star when she was done.

She'd sit at her vanity table and apply all kinds of things from pretty bottles and tubes and pallets. She's spray on perfume, dress in wonderful evening dresses that had matching shoes and purse. Her hair was always impecable, she had it done at the salon every week.

That started my love of all things cosmetic. Mom bought me my first makeup for my thirtenth birthday. Blue eye shadow, blush and some other things. I finally had my own makeup instead of her hand-me-downs, although I loved those!

By the time I was starting high school, I was a makeup applying genius. I'd do my friends in the school bathroom. I'd always carry a makeup bag in my purse so it would be handy for touch-ups during the day. I also had a fixation for hair and started playing with hair color and my own cuts around that same time.\

I enrolled in cosmetology school in my senior year of high school, going in the afternoons when I was out of school. I also got degrees in theatrical and glamor makeup as well as hair and manicuring. I got my license in 1978 and went to work at a friends salon. I was in heaven!

While I have retired from that profession years ago, I still cut and color my husband's hair and my own and do my acrylic nails. I mani-pedi myself every week and do the hubby as well. He deserves some pampering, too!

After doing make-overs and giving lessons to many of my women friends, I started my own website, MakeupDiva411 to share my knowledge with women who want to wear makeup but don't have a clue as to how to get started. You'll find all kinds of tips, tricks, ideas and info there from how to do a simple smoky eye to the shelf life of cosmetics. Stop by and check it out! I hope you find it as helpful and fun as I did making the site!