We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Paula Navarro a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Paula, great to have you with us today and excited to have you share your wisdom with our readers. Over the years, after speaking with countless do-ers, makers, builders, entrepreneurs, artists and more we’ve noticed that the ability to take risks is central to almost all stories of triumph and so we’re really interested in hearing about your journey with risk and how you developed your risk-taking ability.
Practicing… No matter how many risks I’ve taken in the past, the ability and braveness to take them gets weakened every time I get to a new comfort zone.
So every time I reach a comfort zone and a new idea is born in me, the fears and doubts arise and I need to remind myself that I’ve been fine in the past no matter the outcome and that I will be fine again, failure is inevitable but that’s what teaches the lessons, easier said than done of course. But that’s the mental battle that helps me practice and develop risk taking.
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?
The way I like to convey the art of makeup is talking about well being all together but separate; meaning communicating to others how makeup can be used as a tool of self expression since it is an art and how we are whole as we are and the natural beauty we have comes from within us in a way that expresses that makeup can be used as a CONSEQUENCE of the confidence that well being and self love generate, and not the opposite. I find it very important to be able to share this message, I believe it helps others to realize that everyone is already enough as they are without having to find their own value in external factors like makeup as beautiful as these can be.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
One of the most impactful moments I had and one that change the course of where I was going in this industry was when I realized how “many times makeup is used to “correct” and how this corrections are based on someone else’s features with the purpose of duplicating someone else’s shapes and face structures. How it was decided that one particular structure was more beautiful than the other and how symmetry was considered “better” than asymmetry. That was one of the moments when I realized I wanted to express my belief in this matter and help break this limited type of thinking that has many people believing looking a certain way is better than other and ignoring the fact that “different” is great! that variety in the world is what makes everyone so special.
And advice for anyone in their early journey would be : be brave to try new things, to be creative, to break the rules and to share your ideas with the world, failure is guaranteed, so don’t let that stop you!
Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle is a book that has had a great impact in my life, this book came to my life in a moment of self doubt and reminded me of how all the blockages and fears we have sometimes are originated in the mind and most of the time are not real and how staying present is the best way to connect again with the source of inspiration and creativity we all have within. I practice mindfulness in a regular basis to remind myself of this and to dare to put myself and my ideas out there with the belief that I am looking to fulfill my purpose and that if I make mistakes I will learn and grow from them and find a different direction but keep on moving.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://paulanavarrostylexprt.com/
- Instagram: paulanavarro.stylexprt
- Facebook: Paula Navarro Style Expert
- Youtube: @paulanavarrostylexprt
Image Credits
Bride Makeup Picture by @anaelle.e.photographe
