I started the beginning of 2020 blogging with the intention to educate, enlighten, and entertain our audience but as you know, 2020 became quite a dismal year.  Much of my creativity went deep underground, including the desire to blog, do any makeup, paint, etc.  It felt hopeless. The Makeup Curio was closed and not providing services for almost 5 months last year.  I lost the biggest show season yet - 10 school productions.  Our summer line up of 4 camps went dark. I was selected to be an educator at the 2020 International Thespian Festival in Indiana, a week long event bringing thousands of students together to revel in all things theater.  I was looking forwarding to that experience but, as you can guess, it never happened.  Fortunately I was still asked to produce a virtual workshop.  And of course, our annual SFX Makeup Competition became an afterthought. Beauty clients became less and less...and less.  I am forever grateful for my devoted regulars and it was a hard decision to