While any beauty-lover is aware of Make-up By Ariel as Kylie Jenner’s unimaginable make-up artist, he didn’t land this dream shopper in a single day.
When Ariel Tejada arrived in Los Angeles, he had only some bucks and an enormous dream – to turn into a make-up artist.
Tejada was raised in a Dominican household within 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 form of hid that a part of me for some time and would play with make-up in secrecy,” Tejada tells 9Honey Movie star.
After primarily instructing 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 Mannequin Mayhem which connects make-up artists, fashions and photographers for alternatives and shoots.
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“I gassed myself off like no different, I stated ‘I’m the very best make-up artist you’ll ever use’,” Tejada says.
“However I used to be so loopy sufficient to imagine in myself as a result of I knew that, no matter I used to be gonna do, I used to be gonna attempt my finest and I used to be gonna do my finest.”
Ultimately, 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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Nonetheless, Dejada was hungry for extra and have become adamant that he would do magnificence guru and entrepreneur Lilly Ghalichi’s make-up.
“Once I first began doing make-up, everybody wished to do Lily’s make-up,” Tejada remembers.
“So I reached out to her day-after-day and I used to be like, ‘I am gonna kill your make-up’, ‘please let me do your make-up whenever 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 or he was not let down.
“She was so in awe, it makes me so emotional to consider as a result of I used to be so scared to do her make-up as a result of I knew that she had the very best of the very best so I used to be like, ‘how am I gonna compete with these individuals?'”
“However I did her make-up and she or he beloved it.”
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And that is the place Tejada’s life actually modified. Because of the loopy publicity the younger make-up artist acquired from doing Ghalichi’s make-up, he checked his cellphone in the future to see he had acquired a message from none aside from Kylie Jenner.
“That is after I acquired my examination from Kylie and she or he was like, ‘Hey, when you’re ever in LA I might love so that you can do my make-up'”
Tejada, seeing the chance of a lifetime, advised the make-up mogul that he’d truly be in Los Angeles the next week – there was only one drawback. Tejada had no cash, no manner of getting there and really had no motive to be in LA.
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“Once I replied to her, I stated, ‘I am gonna be there in every week and I am like, oh my, like, how am I gonna get the cash 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 chance to do Jenner’s glam.
As soon as he was there and proved his power-house expertise to the truth star, the 2 grew to become an inseparable duo and all these years later, Tejada nonetheless does Jenner’s glam.
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“I’m dwelling my dream and I’m proud that I get to say that, the folks that I work with are actually household to me and I could not be extra happy with that.”
Tejada now boasts thousands and thousands of followers on his Instagram, has just lately partnered with Morphe for a signature brush assortment and most just lately attended the Aussie model, Bare Sunday’s occasion to debate the significance of sunscreen and skincare.
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