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Mello’s Breakthrough

TLDR - Jokester archetypes love to ramble and don’t know how to shorten things 😂

I grew up in The Grampians Mountain Ranges of the state of Victoria Australia.

The Grand Daughter of a Dressmaker, Neice of a Contemporary Painter & Daughter of an Illustrator growing up in the bush I always used my hands to create, if it wasn’t helping Nanna Ruby push press studs on jackets she was making, I was making mud pies for the beauty routine of 6yo Mello in amongst the rock pools of The Grampians and if it was raining I was inside drawing over Mums Illustrations like the rebel I was.

Eating organic food off the Family farm and running around the bush and mountains exerting all of my energy!

I left the Countryside at just 17yo on a one way train ticket with $50 to my name in hopes of making a career for myself because I knew I was destined for more than working at the milkbar all my life (like people I went to school with still are).

After a week I got a job at the news agency, this taught me great customer service but I knew I was destined for more.

Searching online for jobs at 17yo I found one with Estée Lauder HQ and though I was not qualified I always knew delulu is the solulu so I applied. When the phone rang a few days later offering me an interview I couldn’t believe it even buying new shoes (which I never had growing up poor) for the interview.

I went to the interview in my full glory, being my usual bright eyed and jovial self whilst remaining professional that I learned from my first job and the Manager called me to say that whilst I interviewed well, I didn’t get the role - it was so so hard to stay on the phone hearing this bad news and I admit that I was even wanting to slam the phone down and hang up I was so mad but something made me stay polite and thank them for the opportunity and off I went back to my mundane job at the newsagency selling newspapers telling recycled news (without realising back then it was selling fear to the masses).

I didn’t stop thinking about the job I’d applied for working in Accounts at Estée Lauder HQ and in a big power move from the Law of Attraction, I got a phone call a week later from that very same Manager who’d held my interview asking me if I was still interested. I don’t even recall saying YES because I almost jumped off my seat! She told me the lady they’d selected got herself enlisted in the Military and I was her second pick so if I want the job It’s mine.

Before I knew it, I’d traded newspapers for MAC eyeshadow palletes and instead of scanning concert tickets I was scanning stocktake for the world’s biggest beauty brands! What a dream gig.

Soon enough my Manager asked me if I’d be interested in training with few of the brands under the Estée Lauder conglomerate in Makeup Artistry and skin care services. I again jumped at the opportunity with the courage of a 6yo and asked when I can commence the super thorough 8months of training.

These were the days when babes were paying $20,000 for Napoleon Perdis Makeup School Course and it was offered FREE to me by the Manager of the HQ I was working in Accounts for, what a WIN

These were the days before social media so creativity of makeup was documented in photography and video form and connections all came from word of mouth.

Before I knew it, I was working under MAC on fashion shoots and doing makeup on beach weddings but deep down I always wanted to makeup with the greens and blues in the eyeshadow pallete but back then it was always what the Client wants and they were playing at a level 2 with rose gold and baby pink while my eclectic bold creative heart wanted more.

Back then even my own makeup was the same almost always with the exception of an annual red lip, it was a black winged liner and Jeffrey Star Nude liquid lip!

I didn’t know what else I wanted for my life or career but I knew I wanted it to be bolder and more juicier creatively.

In the blink of an eye my Partner was killed, shot dead at a gas station while visiting his Brother in the USA and I went into the biggest grief any 20 year old could know.

To cheer me up, a friend invited me to visit her Family home during Carnivale time in Barbados, I had the time of my life shaking my body all around the island.

A week after getting back to Australia I went to bed one night and woke up the next day DISABLED! 8am and instead of jumping eagerly up to change ready for the gym, I was staring down at my hands in disbelief feeling like I was in a movie because both of my hands were fully closed & wouldn’t open! In addition to that it felt like they were being cut open, on electric hotplates and more.

I spent the following 2 years as a medical mystery, spending my house deposit on the medical diagnosis of CRPS the highest neurological pain known to mankind (1.5x a natural childbirth without drugs).

I had to take a forced medical resignation from the job I loved and the fight for my existence began.

The Drs had me on schedule 8 painkillers they prescribe to cncr patients & I hated the way they made me feel.

I spent 2 years in bed mostly asleep as it was too painful to stay awake (the painkillers hardly took the edge off) but I knew deep down there’s always purpose for my life because God ensures I wake up every AM.

I was physically and emotionally depleted hardly able to dress myself (hence my love of kaftans) cook food and do the most basic of tasks most take for granted.

I’d been in bed for 12mth when the Dr told me I’d never open my hands again, can you imagine this news as an Artist?

It was then that I made THE DEAL with The Most High.

I prayed to God that if he heals me and opens my hands again, I WILL NOT waste my creativity, I will create in the big bold colourful ways my heart truly desires and take the creative risks I was always scared to make, it was something I’d spent my life having in my peripheral vision but now I’d lost my abilities of using my hands at all I could no longer ignore the yearning of maximum creativity throughout my creation.

I moved to Sydney to be closer to my medical team and the Ocean which quickly became my medicine and helped me get off the lab made drugs and back to the roots of how I grew up, using nature as the medicine to not just heal my hands and body but also mind and spirit.

In Feb 2023 I enrolled in a makeup course to get my skillset up to date on current practice techniques and products after being out of the loop for awhile and it was then I decided to rebrand as Freelance so I can create in the ways and places that I want to when I want to under Turn Up Your Makeup because I am playing at a level 12 having another chance at life & creation.

I heard on a podcast “we’re all experts at something but we don’t know we’re experts in the thing because to us it comes naturally” and it was when an African Client complimented the way I did her makeup and started crying (lucky the makeup is tear proof!) because she said a white Makeup Artist had never made her feel so beautiful.

Usually her makeup has the wrong undertones used making her complexion have a blue or grey hue which left her sad & sometimes needing to remove the makeup she’d paid others to do for her in the past.

It was then that I realised there lied my breakthrough and purpose in life and what I’m an expert in, enhancing deeper skin tones.

God healed my hands to create again specialising in Makeup for Main Characters so everyone can feel the level 12 energy I felt from healing having open hands to do my own makeup again, the alchemy of elevated confidence and the way it makes us become a magnet to greatness and specialising in Makeup for Melanin where I am used as a physical tool to unite the world with every glamour I create because really we are all ONE and I will not allow the enemy to seperate us with hate or segregation and this is how through the power of my work we are diversifying this world through beauty.

Now I get to help many babes all around the world feel seen raising the vibration which is my ultimate service to the world, building this community who can understand the mission.

From Fashion Shoots in Sydney Australia to Documentaries in Indonesia and Music Videos in West Africa, my brushes know no borders just like my worldly heart.

This is activism through art, everyone who engages my service is helping create a more united world and this is what I will spend the rest of my life doing - uniting humanity 🤎

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