its my tuesday day-off and i can rant if i want to

hello, i am ragen chelo and i think i am pre-menopausal.. little things irk me and irritate me lately to which i do not normally blow my top off until now.

i can feel simmering expletives coming out in my chest, but i hold it in, thinking 'who would give a toss?". but recently, maybe the lack of chocolates (according to my great friend Aileen Siroy,who would put it that way) and the increase of gremlins in my peripheral view that just made me a little bit on the opposite side of the happy scale.

thank goodness, a sight of my favourite chocolate cake got hold of my top (sounds like a toupee,lol) before it totally flew a hundred miles away...

you know what blew it off the last few days?

1) rioters who pretend they are rioting because of protest but are actually opportunistic thieves to loot merchandise and wares in the city shops (then sell the items the next day for cheap price due to no warranty and no return policy).

i absolutely am disgusted with people who use other people's hard-earned money and honest living for their pleasure to destroy or for personal gains. and using a protest as a leverage. bloody scums.

annnd, if you are protesting, you dont need to hide your face under balaclavas like robbers do. England is one of the most humane countries that let people protest for any reason at all, so hiding your face just shows a totaly different intention..the thieving kind.



2) people who enquire and so eager to book me (last minute) for my services (knowing full too well that i am working too!)then cancel due to (??), sounds like they have gone out of they way to get to me yet once you tell them how much, there is some problem..whats crazy is,i go out of my way to agree to it because they are friends of friends..what's crazier is i am dirt cheap for a NVQ trained make-up artist. BECAUSE I LOVE the bloody art of make-up. i do not do it as my main occupation..but i also need it to cover my expenses for the materials and my travel cost, right? not only that, i am forgoing a day at work, so that needs compensating too right? now if you're only paying half of what it should cost normally, then you are not really 'lugi'.



here are some text and email exchanges that went on the past few days..

and the email exhanges..

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the conversation and the agreement goes really well, until you tell them that they have to pay for it..and that, the friend who recommended me got a really (almost free) price because we are good friends... its not like theyre paying heavens,too..for a UK trained make-up artist, i am dirt-cheap, because i only need to cover travel and material cost (i give Shu Uemura false lashes, for crying out loud!!!, they get to carry with them to the event a pack of Body shop facial powder papers,and a give-away clinique lipstick/lipliner depending which items i have many of)..

i went to school for this..I was trained by BAFTA and movie make-up artist Lucretia Foley-Train and went to do a two week-NVQ two week training in London School of Beauty and Make-up. (since i can remember, i was doing family and friends/classmates make-up since i was in elementary programs to university productions til i was working in radio, and cousins' beauty pageants and proms). i did not just wake up one day, and was tld i that i do good make up by friends (friends always say they like your make-up because they are friends..you need teachers or colleagues who u are not friends with, to tell you the truth..and believe you can really do it).

i have had quite a few makeup clients and so far, they have been recommending me by word of mouth, and so far, all said, they have learned a few tricks (i teach them how to maintain it,while im at it), and i also recommend products (cheap ones) that are good which they can get thru grocery aisles if they want to.

really, a half price, for 3 people, and for me to travel all the way to the outskirts of God-knows-where (fuel prices are expensive you know),and to take a day-off paid work to do it, i think (know) i have asked right.


our time is valuable. esp if you are not doing it for 'hobby' or just 'playtime' either. when you are using serious tools and material of the trade. (saying that, i did one for free-of-charge two months ago for my uni classmate, because she was honest and told me ahead of time, that she didnt have much money, and she wanted to be beautiful for her daughter's wedding because her ex-husband was there with his new gf,and i am never one to turn down a good chance like that..serious revenge make-up face,hahaha..success btw, the gf and the ex-husband broke up,and she is getting back with the husband)


if i have to do three faces for free to people who buy expensive champagne to get sloshed from,and are earning more money than i am , id rather go to the market and enjoy my day-off on friday, and use up and enjoy my time with my the husband who rubs my feet every night and who tirelessly support me in my endeavours.

..and fyi, champagne is spelled with a G, not a Y.