Clearly, I am not your typical artist. I plunged into the creative industry and called myself a make-up artist in my early 30s, in a completely new environment/country, without really knowing what I was doing and why I was doing it (at least the beginning). As a result of this initial confusion, but also because I started this journey at a time where my rebellious nature was in full bloom (against trends, standards and social programming, against my upbringing and default behavioural patterns, against a constant people-pleasing attitude and unhealthy submissiveness), I didn’t quite follow the (what is generally accepted as) the easy or forward path in the industry.