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Metro Beauty Insider: TikTok Star Marj Maroket

Count on Marj to help get you out of your beauty rut!

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<p>You might have come across <strong>Marj Maroket</strong> on your TikTok feed, and she might have convinced you to buy a new beauty product, too! No <em>budol</em> here, because Marj is the real deal. We spoke to one of Manila&#x27;s hottest beauty content creators and TikTok star, and asked her our burning beauty questions. Keep scrolling to find out more about this month&#x27;s Metro Beauty Insider!</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/771fdc04-a3e2-40e7-89da-65d8a519fa97_img_0151.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Marj Maroket</span></span></span></div><div><strong>Metro.Style: Tell us about yourself.</strong></div><p><strong>Marj Maroket: </strong>I&#x27;m Marj Maroket, 28 years old and I&#x27;m a full time beauty content creator and influencer. I took up Business Management in De La Salle University. Interests include beauty (of course!), dancing (not professional dancing haha! more like happy dancing when I&#x27;m out with friends lol), creating content, trying out new restaurants and traveling. </p><div><br/></div><div><strong>MS: How long have you been in the beauty biz and what got you started? </strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>I started taking an interest in beauty when I was a freshman in college. I was a cheerleader for the Animo Squad and for all our performances, we had to do our own makeup. I learned to love it while learning to put it on myself. I was also an avid watcher of beauty gurus on Youtube, which helped a lot too. After college, I worked for a beauty e-comm company. We were all female there. It was so fun, we even called it a sorority house. Lots of beauty products in our office that we could try on. While working, I enrolled in Center For Aesthetic Studies (CAS) for makeup artistry. I never really got to pursue it after because I had a full time job. Fast forward to the pandemic in 2020, I decided to get over myself and just put out content on Youtube. I put a lot of effort into it but my videos weren&#x27;t doing as well as I&#x27;d hoped. I downloaded Tiktok and decided to post a couple of videos and one of them kinda went viral so I decided to do more! Can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s been a couple of years already! </p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/785e6f2e-54a5-4df9-82d2-e010c15792ab_img_0153.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><strong>MS: When did you first start your TikTok account and what made you pursue to do it full-time?</strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>I started in January of 2021 then decided to do it full time August of the same year. When a few brand deals came in, I thought, okay maybe I could do this full time! I just told myself I had to be consistent with posting and just figure it out from there. </p><div><br/></div><div><strong>MS: Who are your beauty inspirations?</strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>Top of mind goes is Rihanna. I&#x27;ve always found her makeup looks so good even before Fenty. She&#x27;s brilliant for building an empire from something she actually loves and knows about. And aside from genuinely loving a lot of her products, I love seeing a fellow brown girl own the beauty space. </p><div><br/></div><div><strong>MS: Describe a day in your life.</strong></div><p><strong>MM:</strong> I wake up around 9 or 10am to respond to work messages and go over what needs to be done for the day. 11am, I go to the gym in my building to work out for an hour. Have my first meal of the day after then I shower to get ready to film content for the rest of the day. I end in time for dinner then unwind by watching Tiktoks or any of my shows. Oh, cleaning is also a way for me to unwind. Love to clean. But I also love making a mess. I sleep very late so I do a little bit of work and unwinding in between! </p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/5681e7c8-4c27-4c7c-ba35-b7d9853f6a7b_img_0155.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><strong>MS: If you had to live with just three beauty products forever, what would they be? </strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>A hydrating sunscreen, tinted lip balm and a full coverage concealer. </p><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>MS: Have you ever been a beauty victim in the past? Are there beauty mistakes you committed?</strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>OMG, yes! I was asked to be someone&#x27;s date to the Ateneo HS prom back in junior year of high school. This was during a time where there weren&#x27;t a lot of accessible makeup artists yet so I went to my neighborhood salon to get my hair and makeup done. I remember seeing unsanitized sponges and brushes being used on my face ack! Digital cameras were also really big then and I was horrified to see my face looking so white in photos! It looked like I was wearing a mask because my face was significantly lighter than the rest of my body. </p><div><br/></div><p>Beauty mistakes I&#x27;ve committed in the past is not using the right shade and undertone for my base products and not doing proper skin prep for makeup! </p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/68383e1d-d283-4006-a7fe-1b4e91b2ec03_img_0156.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><strong>MS: What&#x27;s next on your beauty wishlist?</strong></div><p><strong>MM:</strong> I want the Riki Tall mirror for my beauty room! </p><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>MS: What do you love most about what you do?</strong></div><p><strong>MM: </strong>I love that it doesn&#x27;t feel like work sometimes and that I learn or rediscover something everyday. I could talk about beauty all day, everyday. A friend said that I&#x27;ve found my ikigai and I really did! </p><div><em><br/></em></div><div><em>Follow her on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marjmaroket/" target="_blank">@marjmaroket</a></em></div>