Hey beauties! Welcome back to Creative Contour By Carla ®! Today's blog post is a reintroduction to all of my loyal blog followers! First of all, thank you all so much for supporting me since I started my business in 2017! It's certainly been a wild ride! So with all that said... let's jump in!
Who I am, How I got here
For those of you who didn't guess it by now, hello! I'm Carla, Owner and Founder of Creative Contour By Carla, LLC.! I've loved playing with makeup since I was a child, and one day dreamed to become a makeup artist. Fast forward to 2012, when I took a huge leap to propel myself there! That leap was signing up for an esthetics program at a local trade school in Massachusetts. For those who don't know this, this action was actually quite rare at the time, as college was a priority culturally. I went against the wind, and signed up for trade school the day I took the tour. By Spring 2013, I was graduated and passed my state board exam. It was official: I was a licensed esthetician! The next few months, my path took some tough twists and turns, but I eventually was working under a local makeup artist as an assistant.
I knew this was what I was meant to do the first day on the job. Seeing all of the beautiful makeup products sprawled out, and how it was applied was everything to me. Sometimes it just didn't feel real! I couldn't believe it, I was living my dream! After 4 years of hard work, and a rollercoaster ride, I started Creative Contour By Carla in 2017.
It was official: I was out on my own now. No hand outs, no help. Just me. I started this company from scratch, knowing nothing about running a business. It took a lot of trials and tribulations, and a good five (5) years to find my footing. In those five years, I worked harder than I ever had, adapted during a worldwide pandemic, and started an immense personal healing journey for myself.
And now, here we are in 2025!! I am so excited to talk about where we are going!!
Where we're going
Beauties, they say that the sky is the limit, and they are right! I strongly believe that once we find ourselves, the only place we go is up. And you better believe that I am taking Creative Contour By Carla with me! I started out in the wedding industry, and in 2024, I retired from the wedding industry. While I had a great time, I found that working on weddings just wasn't for me anymore. And that's okay, because it helped me make room for the things that are for me!
Retiring from working weddings helped me focus on sharing my knowledge and helping my clients look great, be able to apply their own makeup, and even be featured in a publication or two. Being able to have the flexibility in my schedule to take clients for different services in one day is such a relief and a privilege. This was the only way to allow all of these things to come together.
So where are we going at Creative Contour By Carla, LLC.? Well, we are hosting more makeup lessons, personal makeup shopping, group makeup classes, live makeup demonstrations, personal branding makeup, and special event makeup! We've got it going on over here, and we can't wait to show you all the fun we are going to have this year!!
If any of this resonates with you, let's connect! I'd love to chat and see how I can best serve you in your makeup journey!
Lots of love and lipstick,
Carla