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(upbeat music)

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- You wanna brush your brows up first,

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then you see their shape.

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- You have nice brows.

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- You have a really good brow shape.

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- I started realizing I was transgender

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when I was in high school.

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And then when I went away to college,

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I kind of went back in the closet,

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shoved everything back down,

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until it exploded one day

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Everything's still very new to me.

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I've been transitioning
for the past two years,

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and I've been on HRT that long,

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but still getting the
whole style thing down.

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When I said basic,

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I mean.
- What?

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- I didn't even get to
do like make-up 101.

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The accessibility of events like this

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is definitely very important,

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because even when I'm
affirmed by family members,

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sometimes I look at myself

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and I still don't feel that affirmation.

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It's all kind of hard,
since I didn't grow up

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in getting all this stuff
figured out over time.

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- Right over here I think
is the great place to start,

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right over there.

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I had always thought

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where could I give back in a useful way

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using my skillset as a make-up artist.

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If you have fine hair,
be very careful, go low.

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You see how quick and easy that is?

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Can you show everybody?

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That's juts one.

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- What our mission is

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is really to instill confidence
in the people who come.

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We're never looking to change anybody.

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We're never looking to create a mold.

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- Like that?

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- Yeah!

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- One 1000th, two 1000th.

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- I've been to the Trans Beauty Clinic,

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I would say around 25 to 30 times.

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They will literally deconstruct every look

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and tell you step by step.

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So being transgender is a bit pricey.

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It depends on how far you wanna take it,

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but when it comes to
make-up it's not cheap.

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Not only do they give
you the certain skills,

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but they also give you incentives

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like make-up stuff that maybe
you've tried in the class.

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- We've been able to make
really great relationship

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with brands that trust us,
and they've given us product.

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Laura Mercier has sponsored us,

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Bobbie Brown has sponsored us.

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And it's not sponsoring us,

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literally giving to the people who show up

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because they are in need.

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- I feel like more spaces like this will

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open up society's eyes to
what being transgender is,

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and we're just people like anyone else.

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- Transgender women, we're
just now getting respected,

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since people now see that we are a force

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to be reckoned with.

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Everyone has their own unique beauty.

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Just enhance yourself
the best way you can.

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So you can be the best you.

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- If you feel like you can't
handle a straight line,

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believe it or not doing like
a little bit of a chalk edge

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could always help as well.