Hey everyone, I took a little bit before I posted this news here since I feel like I’ve been letting it sort of sit with me for a few. Most of you know I’ve been a makeup artist for over 20 years and a blogger of about 9. Starting off with another business name and using another platform when I first started and then re-branded, started on another platform and have been moving things right along ever since.

What I’ve always been too chicken to do was start a YouTube channel. This has always been something I’ve wanted to do from back when Marlena Stell was doing tutorials in her bedroom with black and white curtains behind her. I let my insecurities hold me back and time went on whether or not I was doing what I wanted to do or not. Because I’m in my 40’s now I think it’s about time I just come to embrace myself and all of my quirks and flaws and pretty much ignore my negative inner voices (they get loud sometimes). I promised myself last year that in 2019 I was going to start posting videos.

My boyfriend has been so sweet and helped me find the equipment I would use to record, from camera to lights, to desk and chair and he even cleared out a space in our basement (it’s nice but we use it for storage) to make a little studio space for me. He’s been my biggest cheerleader and just doesn’t believe there’s a chance that I can fail. I love that about him.

So along came NYE and I was researching a blog post after everyone was in bed. My oldest was out with friends, my daughter was at her friends house, my boyfriend was asleep cuz he had to work the next day and my toddler was passed out too. That’s when I normally work and that didn’t change just because it was NYE. When I realized it was almost midnight I remembered that I hadn’t made a video! Now I don’t know how to edit (I’m trying but it’s a slow process) so whatever I put up was going to have to be just real and well, me. So that’s what I did. I grabbed my ring light, my cell phone and stood up against one of my kitchen walls and hit record. That was it! I finished up and was uploading by midnight. That takes a WHILE by the way, it’s not like posting on Instagram.

So just like that, my channel was born. I added a profile picture and a background image and posted my video on IGTV as well as Facebook, my Facebook fan page and Twitter. Then I unclenched and went to bed. LOL. It was terrifying and exciting at the same time. I didn’t know what to do with myself. The negative voices were screaming in my head as I countered each one with a positive thought (another promise to myself for this year, be positive at all costs).

So I figure, now is the time to post it to my blog. It’s been a couple weeks, I’ve posted 2 videos, the shock of it all is fading and I’m excited to make another one. So if you would, come subscribe to my channel! Let me know what you’d like to see a video on. I’ll still be blogging of course but I’ll elaborate and demonstrate in video form on my channel. So don’t be shy, let me know what you want to know. It can be makeup, wedding stuff, hair stuff, general questions about how to ignore your negative voices (seriously though does anyone else have these dumb doubt creators?!).

Whatever it is, I’d love to hear it! Here’s the link to my channel. Thanks in advance for supporting my new venture. I’m still terrified, but I’m getting better at covering that up. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkIsCHEB1OIsNG-68zW1jgA?view_as=subscriber