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The Flirtsy Cosmetics Origin Story<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Flirtsy Cosmetics ! I’m so glad to have you here with us on your path of discovering clean and natural beauty. Whether you’re experienced with using all organic makeup products or you’re just touching the surface of discovering the vast differences between clean beauty and mass manufactured products.

Flirtsy Cosmetics didn’t even start out as Flirtsy Cosmetics. The concept of this business steadily grew and developed from my personal hobby of making my own makeup at home. At this point I was just at the beginning of my personal relationship with makeup and oh boy it was not a pretty sight to see. Foundations never matched my astonishingly pale skin, the eyeshadows I could afford were not pigmented enough and had fallout for days, the brow products never suited my gingerly blond brows and all in all, it was a pretty bad time.

Until my mum bought me a ‘DIY Makeup Kit’.. and well you may as well roll the credits now.

But really, this kit changed my life. Looking back on it, it was a little lacking in the products and pigments department but I forgive it due to the overwhelming passion it inspired in me during those first few months of playing, creating new colours and recipes. Before I knew it, I had a 100 different tubs sprawled across my childhood bedroom, full of all sorts of pretty colours and interesting mixes of mineral powders. All unlabeled – Obviously !

Throughout this point I was doing all the home research there was to be done. I learnt the basics of cosmetic chemistry, the different chemical structures of standard minerals used in cosmetics and how they play together to create a perfect product. I also learnt about the types of cosmetic grade pigments and how vastly different they are, and most importantly how incredible they are to work with to create a whole range of crazy colours, and their key part in our civilizations history. Although it was also on this discovery expedition that I learnt about the less than impressive side of the cosmetic industry, like the extreme and unnecessary amount of ingredients that are used to make the majority of cosmetics we see in the shops today.

It is most unfortunate that on top of a majority of these ingredients being ‘unnecessary’ they can also cause long term, harmful damage to the body and skin. I am sure if you have been a part of the makeup industry for a little while now you have heard these things before but I’m going to say it again anyway for those in the back. The problem with the mass makeup market today is the use of petroleum based ingredients ( PEG & DEA compounds, Parabens, Mineral Oils, Parrafin Wax, Propyl<\/em> – compounds ), skin irritants used as surfactants and the unnecessary use of silicone.

And this was the moment for me that Flirtsy began. The birth of a business from a maybe unhealthy amount of research regarding the modern cosmetics industry and a passion to influence the industry for the better. Flirtsy is my opportunity to bring clean, organic, natural, harmful-chemical free cosmetics to my little corner of the world. I believe in providing everyone the opportunity to make their own makeup, to experience for themselves how invigorating it is to create your very own cosmetics that reflect your own unique personality ( which is the whole purpose for cosmetics )

Again, I am so so glad you could join us here at Flirtsy Cosmetics. Please continue to enjoy the website and feel free to contact our small team ( Me, Myself & I ) at any time with any questions or queries you may have, We would love to hear from you ! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hii ! <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My name is Tamika, the founder of Flirtsy Cosmetics

Okay, look, If we’re being honest.. this brand is honestly my personal little landfill. It is my brain dump of cosmetic rants and information in the form of blog posts, my creative outlet in the form of creating new, weird and wonderful colour cosmetics for my personal stash – which I love getting to sharing with all of you! And most intolerantly, my attempt to financially support myself during my quarter life crisis.

I hope my content is entertaining enough for you to enjoy amongst the chaos of content available on the internet! And now I would like to officially invite you to start a conversation with me! You can find me on all the normal social media platforms @FlirtsyCosmetics [icon name=”heart” prefix=”fas” style=”color:#be1e2d;”]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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