The doorbell rings, I open up and a friendly woman in a Fedex-outfit asks me to sign for some huge, heavy boxes which I can hardly carry. It is a shipment from one of my top favorite cosmetic brands from L.A..
The package is filled to the brim with the newest collection of their make-up, most of these items are not even in stores yet. In fact, I think it’s a complete store inventory. I feel like a kid in a candy store, can you imagine? All of this make-up, for me to use and do what I love the most is a dream came true –in this case, I design makeup looks on paper, which are used to train artistry trainers of this major cosmetics company.
I don’t know if I ever get used to this abundance of luxury and make-up, but what I can tell you is that it hasn’t been like this all my life…
As far back as I can remember I always had to rely on myself, learn life the hard way, and fight for my dreams. Those days, I remember my parents hardly having anything to eat themselves, never the less they never stopped supporting my creative talent.
Miraculously they always provided me some kind of material and tools to continue what I excelled in: drawing! No matter the circumstances, I still don’t know how they did it, but I am thankful to them every day of my life.
Drawing to me was escaping the hard life, I loved to draw for hours and hours, as young as I was. This was my true passion.
However, another passion developed that didn’t get the same support as my talent of drawing. It was my secret desire to turn myself into a little princess with make-up. Make-up, as you can imagine, was scarce, extreme luxurious and absolutely NOT to be touched by little me. The small amount my mother owned (and never used, by the way) was carefully put away somewhere high in the closet, not to be found!
Obedient as I was, I never touched it! At least, not when my parents where around. But as soon as they left the house for half a day or more, I went all in, climbed a chair, grabbed the small make-up bag and went off like crazy!
Did I just admit I ‘stole’ my mother’s make up? I guess I did and if there is one thing I regret, it would be that no pictures were made of the result…
Those days I dreamed that, when I grew up, as soon as possible, I would own and consume tons of make-up. And that remained a dream for decades!
During study I found full-time jobs at (non-cosmetic) companies as Head Customer Service and Sales Representative on an international market.
For these jobs I was thankful, but, to be completely honest with you they made me very unhappy. Every hour spilled on an office filling in forms, and talking about concrete or potatoes, felt like wasting valuable time.
I needed to draw, to make-up and to be happy! I needed to create from the bottom of my soul. I had to figure out a way to combine these three things that were important to me: drawing art, my passion for make-up and making some money.
In 2020, by releasing the best-seller ‘Facechart – Drawing With MakeUp’ another dream came true.
Since 2020 I’ve scaled up and became a Makeup Designer designing makeup looks and facechart templates for some of the leading brands on a continuing basis. Sometimes I can’t believe living the dream…
In 2023 I’ve founded Makeup Designer Academy™ to help makeup artists around the world to level up their skills, and become makeup designers too.
In 2024 I published The Facechart Playbook and New Template Workbooks on Amazon.
In 2025 I’ve worked on a revisioned, evergreen version of my beloved Facechart Book.
In 2026 I Published the NEW Facechart Book in English and Spanish.