 Welcome to Every Way Woman. So women are launching themselves into entrepreneurship and today we're talking to Anna about just that. She turned her passion for makeup into her career. So tell me what is it like to be a makeup artist? Girl, it's not all glam as it looks in the social media. What do you mean by that? You know honestly like if you look through the social media all these people you know put up pictures We only that you see what we want you to see it is not all glam. It's you do put on a good face It's long hours a lot of driving. I mean really my friends really know they hardly ever see me And it's a workout. I've seen I've seen the case you are lugging Yes, you have to be in charge of all your own tools your products Yes, it's a lot of tools a lot of products, you know Searching for different type of brands, you know that fit different types of people Not the expensive kind to sometimes so more rewind take me back to the moment when you decided you wanted to become a makeup artist Wow, well, I never really wanted to become a makeup artist. It was more of a hobby. It just happened You just what just happened. I mean I literally had a full-time job and Doing makeup and hair was just a hobby. I would do it for prom. I started back when I was 16 girl So how did you turn that into a business? It just naturally happened people were calling me I remember I ended up doing a friend that ended up was gothic and she ended up saying, you know Glamia for my wedding. She wore the whole red. No, she wore a red dress for her wedding with the white veil But I ended up transforming her. It was a whole transformation that people were like Wow, you did that and I think I was probably like 20 when I did that how did that make you feel when you were able to transform someone one the beginning It felt good now It's a different feeling because I end up helping organizations and our profits where I end up transforming them giving back And it's different like cancer patients, you know stuff like that and to see them pretty much, you know Get teary-eyed and stuff like oh my god. I can't believe you're doing my makeup. It feels good It feels good. It feels like I'm doing something and even if it's for those couple, you know Minutes, you know that they're sitting in my chair. I'm happy that I touched the life Yeah, to make someone feel beautiful is a true gift and you really have it But thank you. There must be a pressure to always feel beautiful yourself. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Every time I go into a job. I mean all my ladies here probably know that when you go into a job It's kind of hard to wake up every time every morning to put on your hair and put on your makeup You know what I mean? So Doing being a makeup artist you have to look presentable. You have to be the part Oh, yeah, and especially me. I'm known for retro. So I got to wear my red rose But so how long have you been working as a makeup artist 18 years 18 years? You don't look all nobody just send my age right now. Yeah, nobody's doing math at home Yeah, I promise I promise you that so what's next for you as a makeup artist? Well, definitely I want to do my own salon I I I'm a type of person that anybody that knows me I reach for the stars, you know and and nothing's impossible for me So right now I have plans to be able to open up my own salon But tell me about the networking you have to network being a makeup artist It's it's really important to network a lot of people that I that I interact with Inspiring makeup artists. They always tell me like I don't like to work with other people or you know stuff like that And I just look at them and even though I shake my head. It's like girl. You got to learn to work with other people It's all about that. Well, yeah, what's the dynamic with your team? Oh? Everybody in my team needs to know how to work with each other. That's why you're in my team But definitely when you network you end up finding another job, you know a wedding could turn into a fashion show The next person has maybe a connection to a celebrity You know what I mean? So it's all like, you know, then you're working on movie sets Then you're working, you know, so it's and you're working on every way woman making us all look good and feel beautiful Well, we're gonna have more of your tips on a few more episodes of every way woman Of course, you can find tricks on everywaywoman.com more when we return stay tuned