Michelle Lacey - The Confidence Hive

I’ve decided to take my confidence coaching training to the next level. Then the course material showed up and when I could barely lift it I thought I’d clearly gone mad 😂 There is a LOT here, I’m a mum, business owner, wife when am I going to fit it all in?? But I keep thinking about all of the people I’ll be able to help now I’m on this journey. How I will be a stronger person myself after going through this journey and a stronger mum too. 💪🏻

It doesn’t matter what you do to change someone on the outside if they don’t truly believe it on the inside.

Over the 10+ years I’ve been an MUA I’ve painted 1000’s of faces. Women of all ages and races. Short, tall, thin, plus size. With every career you can think of.

But so many sadly have 1 thing in common. They don’t feel beautiful on the inside. They have low self esteem and this has a huge impact on what they see on the outside.

They have sat in my chair to help them look beautiful. But inside that self doubt overshadowed anything I could do on the outside. It wasn’t enough to put foundation and mascara on someone they needed to see themselves as a beautiful person.

So I started asking my clients not how she wanted to look but more how she wanted to feel on her wedding day.

I’ve watched so many women look in the mirror, years of self doubt pouring to the surface, every mean comment said to them at school, every failed job interview, every relationship that didn’t work out, all that inner baggage there in that moment. Stopping her seeing how beautiful she is. Instead making her see only imperfections… and everything that she believes she isn’t.

Over recent years I’ve seen a huge increase in women who feel the pressure to ‘look’ perfect on their wedding day. That somehow being them is not enough.

It lead me to change what I did to help women. Instead of researching the best makeup
product or application technique I researched how to help people on the inside. So I could help them break through some of those barriers when they came for their trials. I believed that if I could
help them feel more confident on the inside that would
Shine through to the outside and I was right. I gave them permission to love who they were and how they looked. I helped them find themselves in that moment to be their most authentic beautiful self on their wedding day. Hair and makeup
Artistry was still a part of that, in the same way that the right wedding dress can change how someone feels. But my trials were more than that. I was helping women in a bigger / deeper way.

I’m now taking that further helping people in all areas where low self esteem is a barrier. Reducing my wedding work to focus on my confidence coaching and starting a diploma in psychology to further learn how I can help women break through their self esteem barriers.