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- Hi I'm Paige Lauren Billiot, and I have a port wine
stain birthmark on half of my face, it also goes into
my head, my ear and my neck.
I think it's really important for us to do something
a little bit different, there's so many makeup
tutorials out there on how to cover up your flaws,
your blemishes, let's do something a little bit
different and embrace it.
To be able to see a video like this I think will be
really empowering and this is something that I
definitely would have needed growing up because
I was bullied and people thought if they got too close to me
that they were gonna catch this.
Let's be bold.
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My skin is so much thicker than the rest of it.
And so it raises and gets even thicker and thicker,
so I actually have to get laser treatments
like every maybe five years to kind of calm it down.
Makeup I think is awesome, it's fun, it's creative
and that's where it needs to stay.
I don't think makeup needs to be a necessity
to feel comfortable in your own skin.
Enhance what makes us different because different
is not wrong.
All right so we got look one, it's more of like
a natural day to day look.
There's no makeup on the birthmark,
it is completely natural.
When it comes to every day, I don't really do much,
like at all.
I kinda keep it with just a lip.
Maybe the eyebrows if I'm feeling energetic.
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Growing up was really difficult and because of all of
the bullying and with everything that I saw
within movies and magazines of how to look,
it made me really self-conscious with who I was
and how I had to feel, but I wanna create a new meaning
to a flaw that, there is no right and wrong,
not a flaw, it's just part of you and it's just different,
and it's what makes you unique.
Okay so this is more of a glamorous look.
So kinda kept like the brown's just a little bit
darker on the eye, definitely more of a bold eyeliner,
and of course the lips, the lips are probably my favorite
to do especially for going out at night.
And then sometimes I actually like to fill in
my birth mark but with a pink kind of pigmentation.
This is really similar to the color of my birthmark already
but it is a little bit discolored like right here
around my eye it's a little bit darker.
So I'll just kind of fill it in just ever so slightly.
Kinda gives it this one color
that I think looks really cool.
Now we're gonna move onto our bold looks.
We're gonna kind of just add a different color
for the base, cuz I love doing anything that's not
my actual color of birthmark, I think that's so much fun.
We're gonna attempt doing like some real flowers
and filling it in and see how that goes.
There's such a community that I never even knew existed,
and I wish that I would have known about that
when I was younger because it's so common
and yet you feel so alone.
Even like the days that I wasn't actually feeling
very confident, I just tricked my mind into
that I was and that being unique is fucking awesome.
This is our bold look.
Filling in the birthmark, it's kind of one of my
favorite things to do as far as getting creative.
I literally pulled flowers out of my garden
and my neighbor's garden.
Filled it in with a nice purple kind of shimmer cream
eye shadow, I usually kind of use eye shadows
or lip colors to kind of outline, fill in.
You can totally see this on a runway
for like a spring collection,
I think that would be really cool.
Just put a garden on your face.
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If you were to do something like this with your birthmark
or whatever it is that you're uncomfortable about,
you see something this cool and just even weird.
We don't see it as something that you're
self-conscious about anymore.
We all have our own challenges and our own stories,
but ultimately if we can just come together
and to realize that it's unique and it's beautiful,
you'll never feel alone ever again,
you'll always feel like you'll have a home.
I would totally wear this on the red carpet.
This is our final really bold look,
kind of like a futuristic avant-garde.
This is actually edible gold that we just filled
within the birthmark and then to kind of just add
some boldness, we just do like a dark blue
for the eyebrows and the lips.
After all this hard work, it's all gone away.
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(sighs) Well that was fun.
Today was kind of inspiring and empowering for me,
cuz I haven't been able to do anything creative
in awhile so just to kinda remind myself
just how unique that we all are and all the opportunities
and outlets that we have available to us to do something
really cool, and I hope it was really inspiring
for anybody else who have a flaw
that they're really uncomfortable about.
There is no right and wrong, that you are beautiful
no matter what it is that you have that
you're challenged with that you're not confident about.
Do something with it, embrace it, highlight, enhance it.
Love yourself, be who you are, be bold about it too.
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