If you break my nail, I'll break your heart

Look, I get that being a social media "influencer" can be a full-time gig. There are quite a few people who have made it so they don't have to work a regular 9 to 5. However, that doesn't mean everyone else is on your schedule. If you get paid to be on social media all day, good for you. There's still no need to be a primadonna, or demand that everyone else give you attention as soon as you make a post. Is there no etiquette book, no guidelines, for people working in this industry? Do the companies who sponsor you, or who you represent, know whether or not their ambassadors are actually decent human beings? What people post publically can be entirely different from what they say, or how they act, in private. I've met some nasty, vile people working as influencers, & some jerks who weren't even getting paid (or getting free products), they're just attention-seeking social media addicts who can't survive without their content getting maximum lik...

Who told you that perfection was everything? Hm? Because they're presumptuous & full of themselves! In the beauty industry, whether you're doing hair, nails, makeup, or all three, the journey is often lost as we race towards the end results, & burden ourselves with every last detail being just right. I'm guilty AF of it, that sin of perfectionism, and I say it's a sin because nobody is perfect, nor will anyone ever be perfect. We're all just struggling along, seeking our version of perfection, and it's giving me the worlds biggest migraine just contemplating it. Watching videos, perusing social media, we see edited versions of videos, pics, clips, & reels. We don't see the flukes or failures, the f-bombs when things go awry. Isn't that what beauty is, though? The process? How can we, as artists, grow & change if we aren't getting much needed constructive criticism? I mean, it's nobody's business how someone achieves their...