James Charles
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Charles: "I started my account to post pictures of client makeup I did to get more gals during prom season. I never in a million years would've expected to be where I am today, or even working with CoverGirl."
Charles: "I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger."
Charles: "My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation."
Charles: "YouTube videos and practice have taught me all I know."
Charles: "I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something."
Charles: "I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character."
Charles: "I only want to put out the best for myself and my subscribers."
Charles: "The first product I ever used was my mom's foundation. When I was younger, I had pimples, so I just slapped it on and hoped it would fix the situation. It never did, because it was about 18 shades too light for me."
Charles: "Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world."
Charles: "My photos would not be as high quality without my dad. He's a contractor, and together we converted an area in our basement into a makeup studio with a desk, a mirror lined with dimmable lights, and storage areas."
Charles: "I have pretty defined features: huge brows, very small eyelids, and a chunky nose. I love them all, but they're definitely not the easiest things to work with when it comes to makeup, so I've really had to practice and see what I like on myself!"
Charles: "Classic glam is beautiful and will never go out of style, but I like to try to push the envelope and create something new and inspiring."
Charles: "I would love to do a video with Harry Styles and sit with him and talk about, like, his music and One Direction and everything he has going on and all his amazing songs that have been coming out."
Charles: "When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school."
Charles: "I love to do glam. But I also love a lot of creative, outside-of-the-box stuff."
Charles: "My brows have definitely underwent quite the transformation since I started doing makeup. They used to be disgusting, and now they're a lot better, and I'm happy with them."
Charles: "I'm self-taught, and fake eyelashes definitely took the longest to master. I glued my eyes shut at least 15 times."
Charles: "I'm very bad at talking to boys. I'm not that great at it."
Charles: "If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment."
Charles: "I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself."
Charles: "I don't care if someone makes fun of me, but if someone calls me a mean person or something, I reply. If you don't like me in makeup, that's OK. But I would like people to like me as a person."
Charles: "Makeup is kind of becoming a more genderless concept, which is so cool and something that I'm all for."
Charles: "I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was."
Charles: "Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing."
Charles: "Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup."