We were lucky to catch up with Alysha Tucker recently and have shared our conversation below.
Alysha , first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
I think everyone trying to create something weather that’s a business, content, art, etc deals with imposter syndrome to some extent. For me, I have really bad ADHD and the imposter syndrome is definitely amplified because of that. . I think once I realized that it was actually a trait very common for those with ADHD I was able to put my finger on it, address it and handle it. I just thought to myself, I have plenty of people who love my work, wait to book with me, drive hours (or even fly) to see me because they value and love my work, these feelings of me not being good enough aren’t real, they’re made up and in my head. It was important I realized it was ME who was doubting myself and talking down to myself while others were in love with what I create. It was all just something I made up in my head, it wasn’t real, i wasn’t an imposter, I was the real deal, and I had to really continue to talk to myself nicer and remind myself that daily. On occasion a hint of doubt or imposter syndrome will sneak up on me when trying to make a big move, but I always quickly remind myself to be kinder with my thoughts about myself, and hype myself up. Positive self talk is everything, even if you don’t believe it at first, keep hyping yourself up until you believe it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Right now I’m focused on building a larger training program and an online training program for current artists. It’s so important to me that I help be apart of that narrative change on how PMU is perceived. I want to help educate as many artists as possible into becoming the best most confident versions of themselves. The art of permanent makeup is such a rewarding industry, and the work we do really does change people’s lives and how they view themselves. Educating artists so they can confidently give people these life changing results is so important to me.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
I’d say practicing and continuing your education is the most impactful thing you can continue to do in the beauty industry. Style is always changing, and techniques are always changing, so trying to stay up on the most current ways to produce great results, or learning more about new products is essential to staying with the times and providing clients the best possible outcome.
We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?
I definitely think it’s important to be well rounded so you’re able to take on anything that comes your way, but specializing and doubling down on your strengths is the way to go.
I had a love for brows and I was very good at it after years or hard work, but I was naturally better at lips for whatever reason, it just came more natural to me.
I wasn’t able to initially offer lips so I kind of just tried to double down on brows and force myself to get better (and I did) but I didn’t feel that rewarding passion in something I tried to force myself to do, when I picked up lips again and felt so comfortable with it immediately and started to hone in on those skills, I was able to really take my business to the next level and flourish. I feel so much more knowledgeable in PMU as a whole from being able to focus on the little details of lips and tattooing in general because I wasn’t having to force myself anymore to be great at something that just wasn’t as natural to me or maybe I didn’t necessarily have the eye for.
I would have never been as succsessful (or happy) if I continued down the route of forcing myself to do brows.
It’s important to know a little about everything in your industry and work to be good at them, but doubling down on the thing you excel at, will take you so much further and build your overall confidence.
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