I am so good with beauty skincare products, in fact, that most people assume that I was born with them. My friends could not imagine me without my beauty make up. Nevertheless, when I first started, I was as bad as anyone. As a matter of fact, I would smear lipstick all over my face! You see, I got in to my moms makeup at a young age. I knew that she put it on, and I wanted to be like her. I didn't know how to do it, however.

The art of applying beauty make up actually was more difficult for me to learn than it is for many young girls and women. It took me years and years to get it right. Either I would use too much or too little. Either the beauty make up would be too dark or too light. My biggest problem, however, was getting the lines right with the beauty make up. I could never get my eyeliner pencil just right. I was too afraid of poking an eye out, so I would draw outlines that were far too big.

It wasn't until college that I really learned how to put on beauty make up. At the time, I had a classmate who was taking beauty courses. We were staying together in an apartment out of convenience, but we soon became the best of friends. At that time, I had actually given up on beauty make up for the time being. It didn't seem like a sophisticated thing for girls to wear. All of the really interesting women ñ those involved in politics and music ñ wore very little makeup on their faces. I wanted to be like them, and so I started to dress like them. It is a good thing that I found someone to turn me around and show me how to do beauty makeup, or I would still look like a hippie today.