Face-blind makeup artist

A compliment I often get on my before and after pictures of make-up customers is that I am good at "putting on make-up" the best in people in a natural way. That there will be a big difference without the person necessarily looking super made-up - if you had only seen the afterimage, it would not have been very impressive, but when you can compare with the model, you understand the difference.

I get just as happy every time I get that kind of compliment! :)

When I tell people that I'm face blind, they wonder. ”huuur can you then work with people's faces every day?”But do you know what I started to think? I think facial blindness is actually to my advantage!

When I stand close to a customer, I see "a cheekbone" "an eye" "a mouth" as separate parts and not really as a whole together, do you understand what I mean? :) Very often when I finish with a customer that I have been staring at for 45-60 minutes (regardless of whether it is eyebrows or makeup), I can at the checkout then when I stand a bit away think "jahaa do you look like that?" because it can look like a completely different person haha.

For those of you who do not understand at all what it is like to be face blind, I can say that there are different degrees of it, I am definitely not 100% face blind but some looks just do not stick in the memory but it is just "eye, eye, nose, mouth". But many faces get stuck in the memory as well, so it's very different! :)

I think that it can help me find it easier to make up the person's own facial features. What do you think? But I also get to regularly embarrass myself because of this haha. I should constantly walk around with a shirt with the text "Face blind! If I do not recognize you, it is not out of rudeness. It may also be that I actually recognize you but I'm so used to mixing people up so I do not dare take a chance”

Do you know whose face I have the most difficulty with? My own! I can absolutely not imagine my own face and see it in front of me in my head. Sometimes I think that if I were to go to town and see a clone of myself, I would not even react haha! I have no traits that stand out at all, I think to myself. I'm really just "eye, eye, nose, mouth" :)

Yes you see for yourself haha! (Note, however, do not think it is necessarily negative towards myself)

Do any of you also have difficulty with faces? Do you also think that it can be easier to make up faces because you are a little blind? :)