Make-up Your Mind
I'm Cat Parnell, a Hair and Make-up Artist. I am incredibly passionate about the fashion and beauty industry, i love everything about it and i adore how styling, make up and hair can transform a person, not just physically but emotionally.
I am so driven to succeed in the industry, and i'll do whatever it takes! Everyone knows how hard it is to succeed in the industry but i like a challenge!
This blog basically represents my life as a hair and make-up artist, sharing my thoughts and ideas about fashion and also a glimpse of some of my work!
Have fun reading and thanks for stopping by!
Cat x
Is photoshop going too far? This is what i’ve been researching these past couple of weeks. I’m doing a project on the dangerous and unhealthy effect that post-production programs such as Photoshop have on our perception and ideals of what is percieved as beautiful and infact “normal”.
We are bombarded with extensively retouched photos of models and celebrities all around us, and it is playing havoc with our minds! We all sorttt of know it’s not all real, but to what extent. I feel like working in the business i’m in as a hair and make up artist, i’m actually pretty lucky as i get to see models and actors a like for what they really are, naturally, and apply make up and do their hair to make them look like they do in those magazines and adverts. But i suppose everyone doesn’t get that helpful insight that i’ve had so i guess this is for all of you really! I’ve always been a self-concious person and I suppose the media and fashion industry is maybe partly to blame for that, but only because I let it effect me. Recently, since being able to see that we are all different and everyone wants what they can’t have, when will we ever be happy? Working with people, I am able to see just how beautiful, unique and different everyone is, whether it be their skin tone, colour or type, to their features and characteristics that are on their face. It’s just such a shame that a lot of people nowadays wants to change their features to essentially “fit in”, when we should be celebrating originality not destroying it.
I used to spend time on photoshop editing away the bump on my nose which now, i’ve grown to love as it’s part of my heritage and where I come from. We shouldn’t be dwelling on what’s wrong with ourselves but infact looking at the natural beauty we do all have, and should try and show more.
What we all need to understand is, essentially a lot of these images shown to us are a sham, and we need to distinguish between reality and idealism.. Even the models who are beautiful and thin naturally have their bodies altered, so where is the humanity really?! We should all learn to be happy in our own skin and we are all beautiful..(to quote christina aguilera!)
Cat x
