Meraki Beauty Bar

This story goes to show that people see the potential in you more than you will ever see in yourself. I guess the old me would say I couldn’t do it, I wouldn’t be good at it…never in a million years would I think we would be where we are today.

It all started while working at a mortgage firm with a long-time friend, Alice. She had come in and sat at my cubicle, chatting away about how our weekend went until I noticed she looked a little different but I couldn’t put my finger on it.  She finally told me she got her eyebrows “microbladed” and I was shocked.  It looked so natural and she looked so put together.  Believe it or not the next sentence that came out of her mouth, literally changed my life.

And right away my brain put me down, telling her “no, I could never,” or “no, I’m not even good at drawing my own brows, what if I mess up others?” was coming out of my mouth before I could catch myself.  Looking back, although I had so many negative thoughts I had a tiny whisper of “maybe this actually would be something I’d love to do” in the back of my head.  And it stayed there.

Finally, after a week of humming and hawing, my friend Alice convinced me to take an eyebrow course.  Before I could start, I had to figure out a way to convince my Asian immigrant parents that being in the finance industry wasn’t what I really wanted and that being in art was the way to go! (Yea that wasn’t going to go well).  After some time, I finally got the courage to convince my parents that the money would be returned once it was made back and this would solely be a “side hustle”.  I thought to myself, what could go wrong?  In the end, I am only losing money but gaining a skill, plus I already had a full-time job that treated me really well I can fall back on.