Ironically, my mom rarely wore a stitch of makeup, and still doesn’t to this day. My grandmother, who helped raise me, did a bit more with her look, but it was still minimal. She had a lipstick handy just to add a touch of color, and always made sure her hair was on point. That was the extent of my exposure to beauty as a young boy. I grew up loving the arts, though, and always knew I wanted to be a professional artist of some sort. It just took me a while to think beyond the traditional artistic mediums of ink and paint, and to recognize the beauty world and the artistic inspiration it had to offer.
Being born and raised in San Francisco, I had a skewed reality of Asian American normalcy as it related to the rest of the country and the representation that Asians had in mainstream media. It was only through my early adult years that I realized how little I saw of my own ethnic heritage onscreen and in magazines. Thank goodness for The Joy Luck Club, All-American Girl, and Jenny Shimizu, otherwise, I may not have seen anyone in fashion or entertainment who shared a similar background with me. Although representation has come at a slow pace in my lifetime, I can only imagine how much slower it felt for the generations before us.
In my final year of college, I was finishing up a fine arts degree in printmaking and saw no clear path on where to go with it. So I got a part-time job in the beauty department at a local Macy’s, and it was there that I recognized how much I was gravitating toward makeup and the artistic expression that could be achieved through that medium. Makeup felt tied to the art prints I was creating through limestone and paper. It became clear to me that it was a vehicle to both explore my creativity and connect with people. I was immediately hooked.
Being Asian American though, I quickly came to terms with the fact that there was very little education available on the topic of makeup for different ethnic face structures and features. Through trial and error, and tons of experimentation, I developed my own lens for Asian features and made it my personal goal to grow into a makeup artist skilled at working with any age, skin color, or face structure. I have found beauty in everything I’ve done throughout my career as a makeup artist, and it’s inspiring to see how far we have come in embracing the differences in unique features as the pillar of beauty, rather than something we need to conceal.
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