This year officially marks a decade since I graduated school. And while the natural urge is to look back at my personal milestones and career-related accomplishments, the beauty journalist within me demands to investigate just how much my beauty routine (particularly make-up) changed throughout the years. After all, that is when I first got utterly consumed by the world of beauty, which is what eventually led me to pursuing it professionally.
I first discovered make-up at the age of 15, ‘a canon event’ of sorts that was largely inspired by my mum, who always shared my passion for beauty. For context, this was back when I was still living with my family in Kazakhstan, and as a gift for my birthday, my parents took me to a “Boots”-equivalent store under strict instructions to “sensibly” curate my first-ever make-up routine. My instinct was to get three things: a Maybelline mascara, an EOS lip balm and a Garnier BB cream.
