Ana Albiol
‘s makeup tutorials were the starting point for this Valencian to have more than 93,000 followers on social networks. For a couple of years she has been focused on other projects and one of them is her leap into the publishing world with LIFE of a restless ass (Espasa). With a non-conformist and hard-working spirit since she was very young, in her book she reflects on issues as polyhedral as freedom or singleness. She recognizes that in life “you have to try everything” and have “a lot of consistency and perseverance” to achieve the goals set.
–It is defined as a restless ass. Is that good
–It is what it is, I don’t know if it’s good or bad. It’s good to me. This comes to me from the incubator.
-What has given you to be in half the world,
–More than travelling, I have lived in several places and it has given me broad-mindedness and possibilities. When you see people and live in places where things are done differently than you are used to, when people think differently and, furthermore, you are alone facing everything, a world of possibilities opens up.
–What motivated you to write LIFE
–I’ve always wanted to write. Since I was 12 or 13 years old I loved the newsrooms, I wrote letters to myself and spoke in public from a very young age. But enter the world of makeup. Life took me there and it wasn’t until two years ago that I let go of the brushes, the makeup, and I paid full attention to this project.
–She says that one of her main frustrations was not being able to study Communication, but it turns out that she communicates very well.
-I wanted to study Communication because that is the natural talent in me. We all like to do something, and when we like it from a young age, that’s where talent and enjoyment go. I wanted to study in that field to be able to materialize that professional enjoyment. It could not be, but it turns out that I opened the blog and people welcomed it very well.
–Have you forgiven your father for not encouraging you to study Communication
–Forgive
Yes. But hey, he had to die for me to forgive him.
-It’s a bit hard.
Yes, sometimes this happens. You think it’s going to last until you’re 80 and you say, “I’ll forgive him.” I was already working on forgiving him, but time passed too quickly.
–How do you get along with having more than 90,000 followers on social networks
-It’s already gone. At first, when there were about 5,000, he said: “My mother!”. Then it was 10,000 and now it’s a number. What really matters to me about this is seeing the affection of the people who are still there after so many years.
“Beauty is harmony for me. Beauty matters, no matter how much we want to go modern” – What do
you have to thank makeup, those tutorials
-Absolutely everything. It was a mask when my insecurity practically didn’t let me go out on the street. And then it was my great connection with people. I have discovered the human being, how we function and how we feel, through makeup. I get to connect with people so much because I’ve worked with them a lot for 15 years. Also, at a very short distance, touching, skin to skin, the face. Makeup has given me the connection with the human being, it is the most beautiful thing I have right now.
–Does a good appearance open doors
–Yes, as much as we say… Beauty for me is harmony. I’m not talking about the established canons. But yes, human beings like to see a harmonious and careful appearance. Beauty matters, as much as we want to go modern.
–Can a bad make-up truncate an opportunity
–Totally. In fact, my entire course and my entire philosophy of makeup was based on enhancing natural beauty and making makeup very imperceptible.
–Back to his book. What is freedom
Ufff. At first it was not having a boss, then not having hours, then not having an economic limit and now, for me, it is being able to stop what is outside and look inside, ask my own questions and find my own answers. Be consistent, above all.
–Can you be happy without considering yourself free
–Personally, no. If my freedom was taken away, I would rather die.
–Have social networks changed your life a bit
–Everything.
–For good
–Fortunately.
–Despite the haters. What importance do you give them
-I gave them a lot of importance. They have been a complicated part of the process because everyone wants acceptance and we seek appreciation. That there are people who from anonymity throw judgments and little things at you, it hurts. I’m not going to hide it. If you want the good of social networks, I have to accept the bad. But I set limits and from there it was when this changed. When you are happy doing what you do, criticism matters much less to you. It is the great key of the networks.
-Criticizing from anonymity is easy.
-Yes. The civility that we have achieved in the street has to go to social networks. There should be the Police on Instagram.
–Should I worry if my daughter tells me that she wants to be a youtuber, instagramer or influencer
–What you have to do is accompany her and let her see what values ​​are there as a human being to put them at the service of society through social networks. This is how you can change the world, but you have to work on values.
