My first makeup look of the year—and also my first without nicotine

And not only is this my first makeup look of the year and the first one I’ll be posting on TikTok in a long time, but it’s also the first time I’ve done my makeup without nicotine. I’ll tell you, one of my favorite hobbies used to be doing my makeup while smoking like a crazy addict—yes, whenever I did my makeup, I’d usually smoke almost an entire pack of cigarettes, so that was also one of the reasons why I stopped doing my makeup. Whenever I thought about doing it, I’d get scared and anxious just thinking about doing it without my cigarette… I really felt like I needed it to finish any makeup look, and while I was doing it, I’d fill all my tools with smoke, and my living room would turn into the most toxic place. Even though I quit smoking last November, I was really scared to do it without that, but today I decided to overcome that fear, and believe me, I didn’t need it at all.

I got really distracted. Even though I’m out of practice—the last time I did my makeup was on New Year’s Eve, and by then I had already quit smoking—I still managed to put together a pretty quick and simple look to distract myself from missing cigarettes. This time it took me quite a while—almost two hours—to do my makeup, trying to recreate a look from a TikTok I love. The user is @ulemakeup0; she’s a Venezuelan girl who has tons of makeup tutorials. She explains things really well and simply. The most surprising thing is that even though her explanations are very simple, the result is always beautiful. This time I wanted to do this makeup look, which is a mix of brown and light blue, with a halo eyes style. It could have turned out better, but I’m aware that I’ve lost a bit of practice. It’s not easy to do something again after months.

But for me, it was an even bigger challenge when I came up with the idea of filming most of the makeup process because, as I mentioned earlier, I want to post videos on TikTok sharing my makeup looks. I don’t understand how content creators manage to film makeup tutorials—it seems like the most awkward and difficult thing to film. I’ll be posting my video soon, I can’t do it yet because I have to edit it and also see how the shots turned out—it was really, really complicated for me. I don’t expect to become an “influencer” or famous; I just want to share what I like, especially now that I can do it without having to cling to a bad habit.

Anyway, I hope you like this makeup look. For it, I used white body paint and dark brown, light brown, blue, and a little red eyeshadow.




Felicidades por este "primer" maquillaje! Es mucho más que colores en el rostro, es una victoria personal que merece ser celebrada en Hive.
Congratulations on this "first" makeup look! It's much more than colors on your face; it's a personal victory that deserves to be celebrated on Hive