Who I Am.
Ammara Rana is a makeup artist with 20 years of expertise, and global experience. Raised in America and based in New York, she has traveled, worked and lived coastal and in many countries throughout the world allowing her to cultivate a diverse global perspective when it comes to art and fashion. As a professional makeup artist she has experience with luxury brand campaigns including but not limited to Dior Beauty, Fendi Capsule Collection, Dior Homme, Dior Resort, Bloomingdales, Repossi, Gucci Bloom, The Phillips Club NYC and others. Her work has been featured in magazines including Vogue Arabia, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Glamour Magazine, L’Officiel, Hunger Magazine, and Noise Magazine. Celebrities she’s worked with include: Madelyn Cline, Caity Lotz, Trioan Bellasario, Anna Sophia Robb and Constance Zimmer and Tracy Morgan.
Tell us in your own words why you do what you do, keep this positive and relevant including the passion and vision you had to live this new life you have created for yourself.
I have this vision for myself and I just want to see if I can exceed my own capability. It took a pandemic and a full reset for me to accept this as my passion but more importantly for what its given me. It’s given me a chance to excel by my own standards, challenges my creativity & gives results right away. Needless to say, most importantly my skill has allowed me to work and will allow me to work all over the world.
What was it that prompted the change in your journey?
I went through life, doing “what I’m suppose to do”. I went to school, I graduated with a Dual Degree. I even worked in my field. I worked with Psychiatic Patients both out-patient and in. I thoroughly enjoyed it. But it took a toll on me. When I had to encounter my own problems and obstacles, makeup for me was that outlet. It gave me distraction, a positive outcome, a chance to be good at something and excel with each experience. I continued to reluctantly grow though I only wanted to have a much more settled life. I decided I wanted to give it my all. I moved to Dubai, it was a life a changing experience and that gave me the ability to believe that there’s something more out there for me, something bigger than myself that I have yet to achieve, and that would be global success.
Ammara Rana
Makeup Artist
Freelance MUA
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Is a life goal important to you and how would you define this?
Absolutely. Without meaning and purpose to your life there’s not much that will sustain you. Most goals and achievements. in a career are only fleeting. So absolutely having a vision fort your life is important but it has to be bigger than yourself, and accept that it will always be okay to change that life goals as you gain life experience.
Why is it important to follow your dream and what have you share from this?
Following a dream, it always gives you purpose in living. It gives you the drive to see the next day. When you see your dreams come true, dreams that you just conjured up because of something minute, it makes life totally worth every second you get to live and with every second, your gratitude grows.
Where do you go from here, what does the future hold?
Right now, because I am adapting to a post-pandemic American market, I am open to all opportunities that come my way. I am shifting my work a bit in a different direction and as this current project unfolds, I think it’s definitely headed there. I would love to work all over the world. Traveling is the ultimate goal and working to travel is always a bonus.
