Burlesque: A Love Story Of A Small Town Girl

You can ask anyone what they think an iconic moment in film is and most of the time get a different answer from each person. My dad would say something from a World War II movie, my mother would say something about Julia Roberts and I would go into deep detail about the scene in Burlesque where Cher is applying Christina Aguilera’s makeup and how it transformed her character from a small town girl into a confident woman. I'm certain that scene is so iconic to me because that's what happened to me, but instead of a forever young Cher I had a little old thing called YouTube. I can still remember my first attempt at winged eyeliner. It was more of a crooked thick line coming off the middle of my eyelid but I still thought I was slaying the world with it. People can say all they want about …show more content…
It was opening night of our school's musical and the crew was running off of Red Bull and adrenaline, but by intermission, it was just us girls bored in the Green Room with a table full of makeup. My younger friend was begging me to do her make so I gave in. That night I felt professional. It didn't feel like when I've done my little cousin's makeup. I thought I was just high from all the hairspray fumes because her makeup that I just did looked good. I wasn't high though because her and the rest of the people in her room loved it and if there's one thing that theatre kids are honest about its quality of make up. That didn't matter what matter was being able to see my friend smile the entire night and be so happy with the way she looked gave me this feeling of pure happiness that could only be matched by what I felt the night my brother was born when my brother was born. Seeing someone be happy about what I did for them gave me a sense of purpose. Hearing her tell me that I made her feel beautiful was the what made me realized that doing hair and makeup was what I was meant to