Whilst any beauty-lover is aware of Makeup By Ariel as Kylie Jenner’s unbelievable make-up artist, he didn’t land this dream shopper in a single day.
When Ariel Tejada arrived in Los Angeles, he had just a few bucks and an enormous dream – to grow to be a make-up artist.
Tejada was raised in a Dominican household in the suburbs of New York the place he fostered a love of music in addition to artistry. What initially started as a love of artwork developed into an obsession and pure aptitude for make-up.
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“I kind of hid that part of me for a while and would play with makeup in secrecy,” Tejada tells 9Honey Celebrity.
After primarily educating himself make-up through the use of his mom and sister’s make-up in addition to practising on keen members of the family, Tejada lastly got here clear to his household that this was his ardour and that he supposed to pursue it.
The budding make-up artist logged into an internet site referred to as Model Mayhem which connects make-up artists, fashions and photographers for alternatives and shoots.
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“I gassed myself off like no other, I said ‘I am the best makeup artist you will ever use’,” Tejada says.
“But I was so crazy enough to believe in myself because I knew that, whatever I was gonna do, I was gonna try my best and I was gonna do my best.”
Eventually, a photographer took an opportunity on the younger Dejada and introduced the budding make-up artist alongside to shoots the place he finally constructed a considerable portfolio.
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However, Dejada was hungry for extra and grew to become adamant that he would do magnificence guru and entrepreneur Lilly Ghalichi’s make-up.
“When I first started doing makeup, everyone wanted to do Lily’s makeup,” Tejada recalls.
“So I reached out to her every day and I was like, ‘I’m gonna kill your makeup’, ‘please let me do your makeup when you come to New York’.”
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Tejada’s incessant pleading lastly labored when Ghalichi got here to New York and took an opportunity on the younger make-up artist – and she was not let down.
“She was so in awe, it makes me so emotional to think about because I was so scared to do her makeup because I knew that she had the best of the best so I was like, ‘how am I gonna compete with these people?'”
“But I did her makeup and she loved it.”
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And that is the place Tejada’s life actually changed. Due to the loopy publicity the younger make-up artist acquired from doing Ghalichi’s make-up, he checked his cellphone at some point to see he had acquired a message from none apart from Kylie Jenner.
“That’s when I received my exam from Kylie and she was like, ‘Hey, if you’re ever in LA I would love for you to do my makeup'”
Tejada, seeing the alternative of a lifetime, informed the make-up mogul that he’d really be in Los Angeles the following week – there was only one drawback. Tejada had no cash, no manner of getting there and really had no purpose to be in LA.
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“When I replied to her, I said, ‘I’m gonna be there in a week and I’m like, oh my, like, how am I gonna get the money to go there?'”
Tejada scrimped, saved and labored back-breaking hours for the subsequent week to have the ability to afford flights to Los Angeles for the alternative to do Jenner’s glam.
Once he was there and proved his power-house expertise to the actuality star, the two grew to become an inseparable duo and all these years later, Tejada nonetheless does Jenner’s glam.
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“I am living my dream and I am proud that I get to say that, the people that I work with are literally family to me and I couldn’t be more proud of that.”
Tejada now boasts tens of millions of followers on his Instagram, has just lately partnered with Morphe for a signature brush assortment and most just lately attended the Aussie model, Naked Sunday’s occasion to debate the significance of sunscreen and skincare.
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