Baby's First Substack
we did it joe
Why am I writing a substack, you ask?
I’m not super sure. I feel as though I should be documenting my life in some way outside of client photos on Instagram and thoughts about Love Island US on Tik Tok, so here we are.
I’d like to think I’ll write masterful pieces about art and culture but this will probably be my mental dumping ground for thoughts about makeup, products I like and dislike, memes, and a general stream of consciousness. I did enjoy writing in college and high school, so maybe this will spark some great mental renaissance in which I will quit my day job (freelance makeup artist/over-thinker) and become some fabulous author, but probably not.
Maybe I’ll use this as a starting point to making some passive income because I’m perpetually afraid I’ll never get booked again which is the freelancer’s emotional and mental cross to bear. I made an Am*zon storefront the other day and I have a ShopMy that only my mom views and buys things from, which effectively does nothing for me because it doesn’t count if it’s your mom. I also thought I’d start placing small ($5 or less, relax) bets on innocuous things like how many times Alicia from Real Housewives of Rhode Island will say ‘cracka’ on the reunion on Kalshi, but then I thought that’s pretty lame.
So I landed here, on Substack dot com gearing up to maybe write about some makeup in the hopes that someone will book me or send me PR or think I’m amazing and talented and want to sweep me away and make me the head makeup artist for a bougie brand like Hourglass or something and I can summer in the south of France and not have to scoop my cat’s poop because I’ll be so rich I’ll simply pay someone to do it for me.
Here is some of my work if you haven’t seen it, but I’m sure you have cus where else would you have found me on Substack, if it wasn’t for my Instagram. Unless people use this as a social platform, which would be news to me. Some days I really hate the internet, and then I think - what would I do for 8 hours of my day without it?????
