About Me

Hi, I'm Nic. 40s they/them

I've had an on-again off-again relationship with makeup over the years.  Being so pale, 20+ years ago as far as I was concerned there just wasn't any sort of face makeup other than translucent powder that was pale enough for me.  I did like shadows and mascara, having blonde eyelashes I get really washed out when bare faced.

For some time in my 20s though, I just ditched the makeup.  Laziness, who knows but I just didn't care anymore.  Then slowly I started getting back into a regular routine of at least wearing mascara.  I experimented a bit with gel liner (didn't have a proper brush though so it wasn't too successful), pigments and more shadows.

Then one day I was looking for a video on velcro rollers, I stumbled across Emily (https://www.youtube.com/@emilynoel83) and started watching her beauty videos.  I was transfixed!  I wanted to learn how to do the more advanced techniques with eye makeup, the array of different face makeup options out there.. it just sparked my interest.  And so it went, here I am.  As things go, I was heavily into makeup for a good ten years but my interests have gone other places (digital painting is my current Thing) but I do still make the occasional video.

My YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@frecknic and nowadays the blog is just for foundation swatches.

Thanks for stopping by!