✨ Put on a happy face. ✨
Shout out to everyone that entered the
#scalorajoker24 contest! 🤡 The looks were all amazing and I loved reading everyone's posts about their journey with mental health. Now that submissions are closed, I wanted to share a quick look of my own. 🖤 I've talked a bit on here about my personal struggles, but I wanted this look to represent how social media plays into my mental health. For me, social media has always been a double edged sword. On the one hand, I've gained so much from it: I've gotten incredible opportunities, made amazing friends, and found a community where I can share my art, which is amazing. I wouldn't even be a makeup artist today without it. But on the flip side, it can also be extraordinarily toxic and unhealthy for me too. The constant comparison to other people's art, and bodies, and lives, feeling like a slave to the algorithm, seeking external validation from likes and follows, scrolling mindlessly through overly face-tuned, edited, and curated content... It takes a toll. Sometimes I can't tell if it's helping me or hurting me. Sometimes I feel so fucking fake doing makeup and sharing photos like everything is great when in reality, I'm falling apart. All of this to say: none of this shit is real. No one's life is ever as perfect as it seems; we're all struggling, battling insecurities, and just trying to do our best. And that's okay. ❤️
Shout-out to
@saggysara for the shirt and for being one of my favorite accounts that always keeps me grounded. And shout-out to
@scalorasfx for asking me to help judge the contest. ❤️
