I was a counter girl in Bloomingdales SoHo. And two years later,  somewhere along the road I decided, “I gotta stop!” and that this wasn’t for me. I actually intended to be a writer. I went to school for creative writing and was travel writing before that, but I just went into this whole life tail spin and I couldn’t write. I had a creative block and I needed to do something else with my hands, so I started doing makeup.