Meet Our Beauty Blogger

Professional makeup artist, Natalie Matias, contacted Rethink Breast Cancer with a desire to help brighten the lives of young women with breast cancer. She’s warm-hearted, passionate & the breast cancer cause is close to her heart. Natalie knows that young women are into fashion, skin care and makeup to look and feel their best – yes, even when dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis. In regular guest posts to our blog, she’ll be sharing expert tips, trends and techniques through text, photos and video – with a special focus on your questions about beauty during and after treatment. Email your beauty questions to support@rethinkbreastcancer.com. Welcome, Natalie! We can’t wait to hear more from you!

One of my fondest moments as a child was watching my beautiful mother meticulously enhance her facial features with makeup as if she were Coco Chanel. I would literally stand there with my eyes peeled to her motions as she perfectly lined her lips and filled them in with a vibrant fuschia lipstick …it was the 80’s...it also was the time when I fell in LOVE with Makeup.

Fast forward thirty years and I have been in the beauty industry for a decade. I have worked for brands such as CHANEL, FACES, MAC and L’OREAL; in a variety of industries Bridal, Fashion and Television; and on so many different faces from celebrities to Canadian personalities and most importantly the everyday woman. I am currently the blog editor of www.mintmakeup.wordpress.com and you can also find my articles featured on www.themediahuddle.com and www.yummymummyclub.ca !

Sadly, my mother was not around to see the direct influence she had on me becoming a Beauty Expert. I lost my mother to breast cancer in 1994 at a time where there were very few resources and limited accessibility to those resources. Times have changed and resources such as Rethink Breast Cancer exist, thankfully! I am truly honored, excited and thankful to become the very first guest beauty blogger for a cause so close to my heart.

I have accumulated a wealth of beauty knowledge and tips in the last decade and I wish to openly share them with you. I also love to explore natural, safer beauty alternatives. With this I hope to help you integrate more natural products and help find that balance in your beauty regime.

Best,
Natalie