Me too!

I'm going to try to keep this short:

I started having seizures. We found out I had a brain tumor (benign) and I had surgery to have it removed. The surgery caused nerve damage that causes my right eye to go from a standard eye to a more hooded, down-turned eye. It also makes the cheek on my right side appear flatter, with less of an apple cheek than the left. It was really hard because as much as I know that it shouldn't matter, it did matter to me. My face was not symmetrical anymore and it was all I could see in the mirror.

Like many of us, I grew up playing with make up and eventually learned a way that I found to be flattering and that I liked to use. This wasn't working anymore. I turned to some tutorials and while the results looked weird on my face (to me), I figured I just wasn't used to it and that I had to look as good as those girls did because I was doing exactly what they were doing.

That's the thing. Wayne says all the time that if you are doing something and you love the results and it works on you, keep doing your thing. If, on the other hand, you have a face that doesn't work with the trends, then you should be open to trying something else to look your personal best. I don't disagree at all. There are women who can wear makeup in any which way and it always looks good because they have a face that can take a lot of makeup and still look nice. The rest of us mortals run the risk of looking too done, like a Bratz Doll, or even silly like a clown. For those people, the ones using methods and techniques and product that does not work on them but are too scared to change their habit- just try it. It's just makeup and it'll wash off if you don't like the results.

That is all I have ever interpreted him to be saying, personally, The people who look fantastic doing what they're doing don't really need his input. He's not trying to reach out to them for them to change what they do to themselves. Not excluding them; many can use the tips he shares on other people. But they already have the skills needed to do their own faces, so keep on keeping on.

That all said, I finally found him on Youtube and it has truly made a huge difference to me. For one, he's shared his own issues and struggles to find who he is and love himself and it's inspiring. For another, I learned that 1) I had standard eyes initially but 2) One was now hooded. 3) Contouring and baking and highlighting are the Spidermans of makeup application... great power, great responsibility.

Watching him and practicing his techniques and tips and hearing the encouragement have resulted in me being able to make my left and right eyes look almost even again. It's a huge improvement and makes me feel much more confident. I also learned how to utilize the Spidermans so that I can similarly even my facial planes so the face looks like it matches. Before, I just did what the people in tutorials did without thinking about my personal facial shape. By applying different shades at different places AND learning to blend, blend, blend, I lift the other side of my face enough that I no longer look asymmetrical and also so I don't look like the bastardized product of a 3-some between Picasso, a baseball player with clay on his face, and a lifeguard with zinc oxide.

(Yeah, that ended up not being short. Sorry!!!)