Patrick Ta

I have always been obsessed with makeup.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was DMing people.

I would reach out to as many people as I could and just like wanting someone to say yes.

Something that was, I think that was like frowned upon like back then, but I didn't know how else to reach these people.

I didn't want to fail again.

And at the very beginning of my career, like when it was so

taboo to take photos of your clients.

I did that.

And I would take selfies with my clients and post my work on social media.

And there was this article maybe 12 years ago from Vanity Fair.

They wrote an article about me saying that I was selfie made.

And even though it was so frowned upon, I did it anyways.

And it

has given me the chance to be where i am today within two years i was working with gigi back then she only had like 200 000 followers she was so young she was so new and one thing just came out after another i feel like back then if you got a follow from someone back then it meant that i was probably going to work with them within the next month or so

Even though social media was so new to me, I really dove into it.

And I could see that even though like I had like 6,000 followers, I was like booking clients.

And I was like, oh, this is great.

I was charging $50, like $75 here and there, making $500 a day.

And I thought I was killing it.

I was like crushing it.