When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.
— James Charles
Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup.
Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.
My followers are some of the most loyal people out there. They know everything about me and my life. They know all my drama with guys that I have crushes on, all that stupid stuff that doesn't really matter. But all that stuff allows me to build a close relationship with them.
I only want to put out the best for myself and my subscribers.
My style, I'd definitely describe as athleisure with a twist of gay, which I really, really live for.
My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.
I started my account to post pictures of client makeup I did to get more gals during prom season. I never in a million years would've expected to be where I am today, or even working with CoverGirl.
Makeup is kind of becoming a more genderless concept, which is so cool and something that I'm all for.
Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.
I'm still confident as a boy, and I will always be a boy.
I don't care if someone makes fun of me, but if someone calls me a mean person or something, I reply. If you don't like me in makeup, that's OK. But I would like people to like me as a person.
I think it's so important to love who you are and be comfortable in your own skin.
I've been singing, literally, since I was born.
Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you've worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.
I love to do glam. But I also love a lot of creative, outside-of-the-box stuff.
I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.
