We recently connected with Miranda Blake and have shared our conversation below.

Miranda, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

I love this topic because I don’t think it’s discussed enough.

My parents raised me to the best of their ability with the tools they were given at the time.

The one thing that I do think that they did right besides the way I was raised was… get a divorce. As depressing as it sounds, I am grateful for it happening. This traumatic event has molded me into the woman that I’ve become over the past several years and forced me to grow into my own person. Unfortunately, the timing was not ideal but when is a divorce necessarily “ideal”?

I was graduating highschool the same month that it happened. I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do with my life after graduating and I didn’t want to go to school. The only thing that had intrigued me during that time was makeup. I spent late nights creating makeup looks and posting them online as my “escape”.

Boy am I so grateful that I had a creative outlet to distract me from all of the bad coping mechanisms that I could’ve turned to. Coping with the loss of my family, my normal, my home… essentially, forced me to make something of myself.

As I continued to post what I considered my form of self expression, I created a following of women who were so supportive. I also began to get noticed by makeup brands that I had always dreamed of working with. This was something that I worked so hard for and I was almost addicted to the feeling of fulfillment that it had given me. The experiences that I’ve had in the world of social media have been insane in the greatest way possible and I’m forever grateful and also proud that this is something I created on my own without college education, without my parents… just me.

I can’t help but to think that had my parents not split, I wouldn’t be where I am today in my career. Things may not make sense in the beginning of a traumatic event but it is possible to use it as fuel to turn it around for yourself. Things do happen for a reason and you do not have to fall victim to any circumstances that are thrown your way.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I create makeup looks using products that I love and recommend to my audience. I also post lifestyle content, as I’m in my healing era and want to share that as well. I want my audience to be able to relate to someone on social media. The unrealistic expectations that are shown can be very toxic to mental health.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

As I continued posting my makeup looks, I slowly gained more and more followers by being myself and being consistent.

My advice to build a social media presence is to be consistent, genuine and pay attention to what people want to see these days.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn that gaining followers was the goal. I had eventually forgotten the reason I even began doing makeup in the first place and only cared about the numbers. I had to take a step back and begin creating on my own time and when I felt truly inspired to create something.

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