I just started being a makeup artist this year, and I just received this email asking if I wanted to do makeup for a commercial for this fast fashion brand. I haven't been asked to do that much editorial stuff, and they offered to pay me as well. I'm just not sure if this email is legit or not and I don't want to give away my information if it's not safe.
Heads up, mini crash out.
I don't know what I'm really doing wrong being a new mua. I went to a certification class with 5 other girls, I post more on my socials more than them, I don't have high prices, I'm in the facebook groups for weddings fighting for my life and I'm now practicing how to style hair online to attract more. I became certified in March, and now 4/5 of my classmates have already done weddings, getting booked, or getting hired on as assistants with well known artists in the area. I've had only 4 paid event bookings and a couple fashion shows for free. My instructors offer us to shadow their weddings but don't pick me. I don't get inquiries and in the rare case I do, I usually get ghosted. Now I'm trying to keep pushing when I normally would give out by now.
I'm trying to see my shortcomings, like how I have mostly drugstore products, I don't have a normal website yet, I don't make very good content, and I have a day job that is tedious and doesn't involve makeup at all. But everyone online says that those aren't things that should be setting me back. Maybe my makeup isn't good, but I'm still complimented from the clients I had and my friends and followers. My content isn't that good but I'm working on it, but I don't show my face a lot. It's just... it's been 5 months and I'm trying, yet I'm nowhere near the people around me, who aren't trying as hard as I am. I guess does anybody else have this feeling or had it before? I'm just not in the right headspace this week.
Very "woe is me", but I did say it was a mini crash out.