Brazen with Vanessa

The Green Artist

When Tracy started out as a makeup artist many years ago, she’d been young and green.

Big and empty is what comes to mind when I think of it. Uncomfortable mostly, but we had to make do, Mama said Daddy was experiencing a setback. I remember how it sheltered me in the good days and how it silenced my voice in the bad days, how it made Sisi so restless. She was a dreamer, Sisi.

The Journey

Life has a way of shaping things whether for good or for bad, the end tells the tale but what about the middle, the in-between?

The Day Before

The hotel was bigger than she’d imagined, plusher than the pictures and videos had revealed and it still didn’t feel real. She had to pinch herself to confirm that it wasn’t a dream, that it was really happening to her. This was officially the best day ever!