Babe your birthday is next month! What's the plan for that day?
That's my best friend asking me more than 50 days to my birthday. Now I start going through all the ideas that have been running through my head, a small birthday party, a birthday photo shoot, a trip to somewhere remarkable or a little giving back to society or nothing at all, but then I also look at my funds and know I have to be realistic, nothing too luxurious. I decide to hold on the thought and just tell her no plans yet.
Three weeks later it really dawns on me that I am yet to decide on what idea to go for, and a little spark goes off in my head, what if I just have a pre-birthday shoot, have a nice makeup artist work on me and post a long message about how I'm grateful for life, that'll be okay, any other thing that wants to happen will happen.
So a plan is made, I told my bestie and she was okay with it, then she goes into planner mode, "don't worry I've got the perfect makeup artist and photographer in mind, you'd absolutely love the shoot" and I was like "okay cool". That settled I was worried less until the day to the shoot, I saw a picture on twitter of a makeup job that was poorly done and I become troubled, hope I'm not setting myself up for the worst birthday? Had to call bestie again, you're sure of the makeup artist and she goes, trust me have I ever let you down? That's the wrongest thing to say though, 'cos I start to recall the number of times she's done so, but I just calm myself with the thought that if the makeup doesn't come out well, I'll just cancel the shoot and move on. Plus I'm not even the one paying.
The day of the shoot is finally here and while I'm still trying to make up my mind about it, she arrives at my place. Seeing her, I feel a bit relaxed because her makeup looks so good and fine. Then she proceeds to work on me, but you know how devil works, I start recalling accounts of people that can make themselves up but make a clown of others, and I'm back to panic mode. However, her camaraderie makes me a little calm and ready to accept whatever comes my way.
Voila! We're done, she says and I'm like "Hmm, let's see how it came out " and I look into the mirror and see a beautiful woman, gosh! Is this me I said out loud and just immediately my mouth forms into a smile and it refused to go back to normal o till the makeup was cleaned off (even cleaning it off was war).
Nothing is as fulfilling as seeing yourself in the mirror and wanting to smile, any makeup artist that can make you do that is one to always go back to.
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P. S. The birthday went well, so many lovely comments and wishes, didn't want it to end. I'm planning to go to her to train me, I'll like to look this good more regularly.
This was the message i received from a client i did a make up job for.
Comments like this about my job, bring tears to my face and this is a great feeling to have. I am happy she loved it and i am glad God helped me to deliver. This is my ulog entry for 6th June, 2018.
Thank you for reading.
I remain 
