We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Celtic Honey. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Celtic Honey below.
Celtic Honey, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I moved around quite a bit when I was little…..as in averaging a school a year up till high school. Home was where my stuff was and my life was a constant state of change. However, that constant change in environments also taught me how to adapt quickly and later translated into the go with the flow personality I am today. Very little jars me anymore with the various life circumstances that have been thrown my way over the years. Resiliency, to me, is believing that today may have been a challenge, but tomorrow awaits and it is up to you to make it better.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Hello! My name is Celtic Honey and I am an all around artist that travels all over to be a cosplay guest, perform burlesque/nerdlesque/draglesque and run panels on consent, body positivity, martial arts and makeup/body paint. I love everything dealing with the word art from singing, painting, to martial arts and performing. My tagline is The Yin Yang of the Midwest Plains because I incorporate both light and dark to my work that has an ebb and flow that I derive heavily from my martial arts roots of Kung Fu. If I could tell the readers anything though, it would be that there is a craft, creativity and beauty to burlesque and burlesque, drag, and cosplay is for every BODY. Don’t let anyone try to define you based on your size.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Adaptability, drive, and creativity.
The first thing to remember is that the plan may not always go according to, well, the plan. Therefore keep your dreams flexible and adapt to the change so that you carve your way into where you want to be. Growing up with constant change, helped me to find that ability to be adapted and to realize that there is always a new angle, a new way to look at things. Every new situation is an opportunity.
As long as there is a drive, a hunger, to succeed, it doesn’t matter how many times you may fail. Finding success comes from dusting yourself off and trying again. Drive will get you to where you want and keeping that drive will push you through to the end goal. Just don’t forget to enjoy the journey along the way. Find lessons in the negatives and bask in the positives.
Being creative in an internet world is daunting. There is so much to compete with that it’s about finding the passion of where your creativity lies. Your heart. Remember that you’re going to go through several iterations of your style to settle on what you find is your heart. What people associate you with. Even then, it’s okay to grow and change because creativity and style can and should change as more skill sets are learned and more experiences are had in a chosen field.
What would you advise – going all in on your strengths or investing on areas where you aren’t as strong to be more well-rounded?
I have been fortunate to have several life experiences at this point and I can say that having a diverse portfolio of skill sets is advantageous. Do not limit yourself because the possibilities truly are endless. It’s a puzzle that you learn to piece together and build and the end product is your style. However, make sure to take the time to appropriately learn those skills and never stop honing them. There’s always an opportunity to grow.
Having multiple skill sets and diverse ones even creates marketability.
I really enjoy teaching cosplay consent. Consent overall and the various aspects of it and being able to bring that subject to conventions is very near and dear to me. In a separate arena, I also love talking about Kung Fu and the styles from Avatar: The Last Airbender because two of the styles, I have extensive training in. While these two are completely different skill sets, they are both applicable to a con setting. Additionally, I am able to talk about makeup, body paint, burlesque, and a number of other skill sets all which can be viewed as diverse from each other but they can also build on each other as well.
This really came together for me when I found the world of Nerdlesque. It combined several of my interests. Cosplay, Martial Arts (incorporating props play into my acts), Burlesque, Costumes, Creativity and Makeup.
By not limiting myself to one thing, I helped build a unique style that I can call my own when I perform and for people to recognize and see and go “that’s a Celtic Honey routine”.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: 21+ channel : instagram.com/theceltichoney All ages channel: instagram.com/celtichoneyworld
- Facebook: facebook.com/celtic.honey.5
- Youtube: @celtichoney5128
- Other: patreon.com/celtichoney threads – @theceltichoney imgur – CelticHoney reddit – u/theceltichoney tiktok – celtichoney
Image Credits
PBrooks Photography Missi Moonshine Photography Philippe La Vue Knightmage
