MEMORABLE MAKE-UP MOMENTS
A word from Mya James
Teaching?
I don’t even know… Probably the first
Modern Make-Up Society class. It was like we developed the curriculum, we
tried it out, ran it for 10 months, and tried to work out all of the kinks.
It’s like a car. Your building and building it. You don’t know how it will work
until you pull it out there onto the road. The first class was really cool.
That’s when we knew we had something signature.
Traveling?
My most memorable moment abroad was my instructors
class the professor for it in London kept failing me. We were going to go away
for Christmas break. She came up to me and said “ Hey, take a diction
class when you go home. Nobody can understand you. The reason you keep failing
is, because you sound like a cowboy.” It kind of cleaned up my accent just a
little bit. If your from Texas you have a twang. We don’t notice it until nobody
sounds like us.
Personal?
This year… I met a young lady named Destiny through another business owner here in Houston. She wanted to do something
special for her repeated client. It was during prom time. Prom time is a really
signature moment here. With Destiny she has a skin lupus. Which is one of the most aggressive
diagnosis of lupus in existence. Because of course your skin is the biggest
organ.
Your body is fighting against your body. She had a lot of near death
experiences and a tough time in high school. We helped facilitate the prom experience for her. Because her Mom had been paying continuous medical experiences. As with any child that is
sick. So as much as her Mom wanted to provide a lavish prom for her she couldn't. Destiny
had just come off an expensive hospital stay. She had to take a costly form of
chemo therapy.
The reason why this was so memorable was because she has scars from the
lupus. Some times they would open like lesions. So you can image how it looked.
She would be called things like walking dead and zombie. At that particular
time her lesions were closed and she was really happy about that. Mind you, she
still had the scars and uneven skin tone. She was brown when the lesions close they are still pink. I couldn’t
imagine going through school like that. Let alone a formal event.
So when we
did her make-up it took her so long to look in the mirror. As I was going
through the make-up process everybody was looking. Their eyes were getting big,
because they didn’t know how I was going to do what I did. Everyone was
confident after the first phase when I unified the skin and got it to look like
even skin. I finished up then she took pictures with the photographer for her prom
photos. Finally her Mom goes just look in the mirror for a minute, and it was just.
I
was getting chills and I was about to cry. Because it was just the look on her
face I don’t know. To me its just make-up, but its so not. For make-up in that
one moment to erase all the things she had been through, and all the names she
had been called. If its just make-up that did that then its healing. It's healing.
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