Three years ago, I built something I loved — and then had to let it wait.

Three years ago, I built something I loved — and then had to let it wait.

I launched Madeup Minimalist— a one-on-one beauty business helping women find products and routines that make them feel like themselves.

Makeup and beauty have been deep loves of mine for as long as I can remember. I'm that person who reads brand clinical testing results for fun. I went to makeup school, got a certificate in beauty and started building something I was incredibly excited about.

Then, as it so often happens, life shifted in a way I didn't plan and with it came a new start in a new state.

Alongside that, a pull I couldn't ignore — a need to serve my creative clients in a deeper way.

After about a year of thinking, researching, and if I'm honest, agonizing — I realized there was no right move. Just the next one.

So I went back to school, earned my ICF coaching certification, and built Creative Success Coaching. And makeup had to wait.

It wasn't easy. I felt the loss. But between my vocal teaching work, coaching school, and the coaching certification process, there just wasn't room. So I let it rest.

Here's what I know now: it was never gone. It was just waiting.

I graduated coaching school and got certified. And then I got to welcome makeup back. I have an Instagram account (@madeupminimalist) where I post tips and tutorials — and it is one of the most important creative outlets in my life right now.

No part of me had to go. The parts just show up differently at different times.