‘We’ll keep doing what we love’, say Malaysian freelance makeup artists despite challenging times

Grace Wang (right) doing makeup for her client who was celebrating her 10th year wedding anniversary in Redang Island in September last year. — Photo: Ethanity Photography

In this pandemic when events like weddings and photoshoots were put on hold, freelance makeup artists suddenly lost their source of income.

In part 1 of this story, Usha Sevi Ganeshwaran, a Johor-based freelance makeup artist in her 30s; Kuala Lumpur-based freelance makeup artist Grace Wang Su Tin, 39; and twenty-six-year-old freelance makeup artist based in Penang Syifaa Syamimie Binti Aziz, who is better known as Mimie, shared their experience in facing this sudden loss of income and what they have been doing in this downtime, along with plans they have to make a living.