Recently you were at the New York Fashion Week. How was your experience there?
Going to New York for the Fashion Week was my first time in New York actually and working backstage at any international event. I mean I have been the queen of Nigerian fashion backstage. It was epic I don't even know how to describe that. It was too beautiful to describe. I was in the midst of people with like minds, people like me, people who have been doing this forever. When I asked them 'How long have you been doing makeup?' they used to say 15 years, 20 years and I felt like a baby. I am like a veteran in Nigeria but there. I felt like a baby makeup artist in the midst of those people and it was really an eye opening experience. The type of makeup that we did was totally different from what we do in Nigeria. I've got an idea now and I think that's how I'm going to be doing my thing henceforth. Maybelline has been doing this for nine years. I got there and they just gave me this box of makeup; more makeup than one can ever imagine. I was like 'Oh my God!' and then at the end of the whole thing, you can take the makeup. The makeup is yours. You take the whole makeup and leave the box. If you were in my shoes what will you do? I was like a kid in a candy store: it was beautiful. It was crazy. It was madness but I love every second of it.
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