TikTok Star Emmy Combs Talks Alopecia and Paving Her Own Path: "Makeup Changed My Life" (EXCLUSIVE)

In an unique interview with 'Distractify,' TikTok makeup artist Emmy Combs opened up about alopecia, finding confidence through makeup, and sharing her hobby.

The on-line good looks sphere has seen a myriad of tendencies come and move since the crack of dawn of time — or since Michelle Phan uploaded her first YouTube video again in 2007. Needless to say, the neighborhood appears just a little other in 2023 than it did in 2016.

There's surely a lot less baking, but there is also extra range.

And certain, fabulous creators like Jackie Aina, Bretman Rock, and NikkieTutorials have made the community extra numerous for years; but still, there have been gaps.

"I didn't really have a YouTuber [to watch] that had alopecia," TikTok and YouTube sensation Emmy Combs informed Distractify.

Emmy was identified with alopecia universalis — "a condition characterized by the complete loss of hair on the scalp and body," in step with the National Institutes of Health — on the age of 1. Always discovering comfort in "enhancing her features" with cosmetics, Emmy paved her own path.

As of this writing, her TikTok account has amassed virtually 10 million fans since her first upload in 2018.

The skilled artist and beauty TikTok darling sat down with Distractify to completely speak about her private makeup journey, rejecting bullies, and the effects of being "different."

Emmy Combs will get candid about having alopecia and her makeup adventure: "I didn't have anyone that looked like me."

Emmy's love affair with makeup started in around 2012 or 2013. "That's the first time I ever experienced makeup, like literally had my first eyeliner and my first pair of, like, Kiss lashes," she instructed Distractify. The Revlon ColorStay Skinny Liquid Liner used to be the first makeup product Emmy ever bought.

But it wasn't until high school that Emmy in reality found out the shapeshifting, confidence-boosting magic of makeup.

"It brought people's attention towards my face and my makeup instead of, like, my bald head," she shared. Lace front wigs simply don't seem to be her thing, and nor is the forehead lamination development (for glaring causes). Instead, she paints faux eyebrows on her freckled, hairless forehead ridge with Anastasia Beverly Hills DIPBROW pomade.

As she experimented with more than a few products and styles in her bed room, she developed a "love and passion" for the artwork form throughout her formative teenager years.

Aside from creative intuition, Emmy's experimentation was born out of necessity, as she "couldn't really watch somebody's video to do [her] makeup because they had eyebrows and eyelashes."

"I got really good at it. And then I decided that was what I wanted to do with my career," she said.

Emmy earned her cosmetology license while nonetheless attending high school, later going to makeup faculty in LA, the place she studied makeup application for tv and film.

Emmy Combs on bullying and being different: "I didn't let people bully me."

Though she's a lot more than simply the web's favourite artist with alopecia, Emmy admitted her condition has formed how she views her own femininity.

Emmy has uncomfortable youth reminiscences of strangers calling her a "little boy," and more recent memories of being addressed as "a sir" from behind.

"[Makeup] just helped me feel super feminine. It helped me feel super confident," Emmy defined. "I had something that made me feel very pretty. ... [While] getting ready for the school dance, not a lot of my friends were doing their makeup, except for me. They were all doing their hair."

You could also be questioning, how did Emmy feel in her hairless pores and skin prior to finding makeup? Well, she thankfully has a ravishing mother.

"My mom had to teach me it's okay if people are staring. She used to say, 'They're staring at you because of how pretty you are, how beautiful you are. People are just gonna stare, you don't look like them,'" she shared.

And people indubitably stared.

"I had the hardest time, I think when I was in elementary school, because everywhere I went it was like people stared at me, people stared at me, people stared at me," Emmy mentioned.

By highschool, Emmy used to be already showing up to faculty with her face beat for the gods.

"Now I'm like drawing attention to my face. Now I look like this person that no one has ever seen [and] I'm drawing attention to myself, which I was like, 'fine by me.'"

Since becoming an internet star, Emmy can not pinpoint why individuals are staring.

"Now I don't know if I'm getting stared at because I'm bald, or [if] I'm getting stared at because someone recognizes me from social media," she stated. "I don't even notice the stares anymore."

Emmy Combs has simple advice for aspiring social media beauty gurus: "Just be yourself."

Everyone and their painted mothers are creating makeup content material in 2023. We requested Emmy what advice she'd give to aspiring beauty creators in the oversaturated modern era.

"My suggestion in 2023 is just to be yourself and to put your personality out there and people will love you for you," she firmly mentioned.

No one's going to like you for looking to be Tati Westbrook or Mikayla Nogueira!

Additionally, Emmy dissuades fame-chasers from making content material solely for perspectives, likes, and enthusiasts.

"Do it because you think that you could change somebody's life. You could change somebody's perspective on themselves," she advised. "Like, I think when I first started social media, I was pretty much was doing it because I had a couple of girls who had alopecia that were like, 'I really like your makeup, how do you do it?' And I was like, 'You know what, let me just make a video.' I literally made those three people happy and that was all I needed. I didn't really realize where it was going to take me."

Additionally, Emmy suggests people persist with what they know.

"My favorite type of content creators are the ones that spin off of what they do for a living and what they're passionate for," she stated. "I follow this anesthesiologist, I literally forgot her name, but she's so funny. And she makes content about being an anesthesiologist."

Because the author is so comfy and an expert in her field, Emmy even called her videos "the best content I've ever seen."

As we wrapped up our interview, we requested Emmy what else readers will have to find out about her. She kept it easy:

"Nothing other than I'm just a 23-year-old who has alopecia and is a makeup artist — I'm a professional makeup artist."

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