“I was scared of eyeshadow for the longest time, and now I feel like I actually look more interesting with it.”

"I also have a fully round face, and even professional makeup contour looked ridiculous (I thought) because it just sat on top of my skin clearly as makeup; there was no architecture for contour. I plucked my brows to their best natural shape and accept it; they won’t ever be 2016 thick, but trying to pretend just smudges and looks silly."

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