20 Something of the Month: Angie Garcia
Welcome Girls, Gays, and They’s. We hope you’re having a fabulous July and enjoying every moment of your summer. We are extremely excited to present our July Twenty-Something of the month and bring back an amazing lady to our website! Angie was one of the first makeup artists we ever worked and collaborated with. Including some of our first large shoots together like Halloween and Christmas. We enjoyed working together so much that we felt very honored to have her write a blog for our website through her viewpoint of the beauty community. The Twenty-Something of the month gives our website the opportunity to broadcast different twenty-somethings voices and perspectives and this was such an amazing opportunity. Thank you Angie for the awesome blog and even better shoot! We hope you enjoy her blog and we will see you soon.
The beauty industry, you have to love it! The makeup, the hair, and the glamorous process of it all is what’s continuously grabbed my attention for years. My name is Angie and I love being apart of the beauty community by working in multiple beauty spaces and being a makeup artist. As a kid I wouldn’t have thought that this would be the industry I would fall in love with. Originally it started off as a love for creativity throughout my childhood. I knew I wanted to be an artist and involved within the arts, a painter to be more specific. As I got into my teenage years I was exposed to beauty guru’s on YouTube and liked a lot of other artist, I got sucked into this fascinating world of using your face and body as an amazing canvas.
It is so special to pick up a brush and create beauty, and to transform something from start to finish, that’s really become so therapeutic for me. I was diagnosed with a Generalized Anxiety Disorder at 14, and was struggling in finding ways to help myself. I turned to make up as a grounding activity and ever since I discovered my love for creating “looks” I absolutely love doing what I do. I don’t think there’s any other activity that gives me the same feeling that I get when I sit down in front of a mirror with my make up brushes and let myself create. I feel like many people can relate, and not necessarily with just make up. We all have our hobbies and something that we’re passionate about that helps us express ourselves, and I think that’s something really beautiful.
To be fair the beauty industry isn’t perfect. As amazing and fun as it is, it can get pretty competitive. Especially on social media like Instagram, I feel like we have set some unrealistic standards for what we define as “beauty”. While exposing the younger generations to something that they believe is what they’re supposed to look like. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good nose contour and concealer for my acne scars, but for some reason I think some of us forget that these things are normal. What I really hope for is that younger generations know that Instagram beauty standards are not real life standards. In my opinion, make up is supposed to be fun and a form for people to express themselves. Make up is art, no matter how you do it or how much you put on. It’s what makes you feel like the best version of yourself.
Living in this “social media” world, we know the beauty industry has expanded and reached so many talented people. It’s amazing to see all these artists get recognition as they should be! That has inspired me so much to keep doing what I love.
I definitely have moments where I have the make up version of “writers block” where I can’t seem to get the creative juices flowing. Those times can be frustrating as an artist, but being surrounded by other artists that I’ve worked with or have been inspired through social media really does keep me going. I want to continue to learn, grow and teach in this industry. So you’re more than welcome to follow along on my artistry journey, where you’ll see everything from a look that took me 3 hours to failed make up attempts. But that’s part of the process of growing right? I love the makeup community so much and encourage others to be apart of this loving and beautiful family.
