Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is a very special episode because we are interviewing

somebody who I really, really admire for his work in social media. Just everything he's put out

into the space is so beautiful in so many ways, right? From the makeup artistry side to the

cultural side, to the impact he's had on so many people. And so I'm truly honored to welcome Aditya Madaraju with us here today. Welcome,

Adi. I'm so honored. Thank you. I'm honored. Thank you so much for having me. No, it's amazing.

And it's such a pleasure because I've been a fan behind the scenes for a long time. I've watched

your videos. I've been taking notes, you know, and so many techniques I've

learned from your, from your content. And I want to actually get started and have you walk us down

memory lane. Like, what really got you? I know you come from a finance background. So, like,

I want you to kind of talk to us about that. What made you make the leap from finance to kind of

creating content? I think leaps in my life have been very constant and very normal for me.

I actually come from a science background in microbiology.

And I leap from there to finance to data management.

And I think it was, I worked in the banking sector for 12 years almost.

And I think it was in two years ago, I decided to go content creation full time. And it's been a beautiful right. If you talk about memory lane, I feel like I've compressed like 20 years of my life into the last eight, nine years. Because, you know, when you're trying to live your life and catch it for all the years that you did not do what you love,

you kind of rushed it a little bit. But finally I've calmed down. I'm living in the moment a little bit more.

But 2018, 19 was when I found my platform when I got married. And then 2019, I started to post makeup tutorials.

And from there, the transition was not very smooth. It was a lot of back and forth having two jobs and doing makeup creation in the night. And then finally in 2023, 24, I said, you know what, I'm going to just do this. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, that's incredible, though, because, you know, being brown, like, I feel like we're told from the beginning, like, you've got to have that stability in your life and you've got to follow those careers and it's like I feel like I always wonder and I think your content also just like in the most beautiful way like trying to light on this for me also was just like how many people don't get to do what they really love to do because of our culture and what it demands from that side,

right? Like from our elders and stuff, what they say. Yes, but, you know, as I'm growing older,

I've come to a little bit of a different realization. And, you know, when you're young, you kind of,

you kind of want someone to be accountable for why you didn't do what you didn't do. But if you

get it from our parents' side or our elder side, like, they didn't do what you didn't do. But if you get it from our parents'

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