I grew up on Brandy. I can remember first seeing her on Thea and then catching her on Entertainment Tonight as she talked about wanting to be a singer. A year later, she released her first album which won her multiple awards, but it wasn’t until she released the classic Never Say Never album that she really catapulted into super stardom. That was at least 15 years ago. To have her recognize what I do and show so much appreciation almost brings me to tears. These are the moments that make getting up and blogging every day worthwhile.
To catch you up to speed, a few weeks ago, a YouTube beauty blogger name Beat Face Honey found out that Brandy was coming to her town (Philly) so she made a video on YouTube asking her subscribers to contact her idol Brandy on Instagram and let her know that she wanted to do her make up. After being bombarded with tweets and Instagram messages, Brandy eventually asked “Honey” to do her makeup, not only for her show that night in Philly, but for the entire weekend. She was floored. Afterward, “Honey” sent an email to me detailing her entire weekend, which Brandy eventually read on the site for the first time, and was moved to tears. You can read the story here.
After Brandy read the story herself, she wrote on Instagram:
One thing that stood out was that she said “our dream”! How humble of her.
The greatest lesson that I took from Beat Face Honey’s story on meeting Brandy was to always be prepared. You never know when your big moment will present itself. While she waited for a response from her idol, she went and bought all of the best make up on the market and practiced applying makeup inspired by Brandy’s videos to her friend’s face every night, just in case she received the call.
This is truly an example of when preparation meets opportunity. “Always be ready so you don’t have to get ready.”
I can confirm that Beat Face Honey is still doing Brandy’s make up and is now traveling with her.
How awesome!
Necole just want to thank you for the work you’re doing on your site! I remember you mentioned that for 2013 you’d work more on putting out uplifting stories and honestly from that Gabrielle Union speech to this Brandy story, Will Smith’s advice, the Jada Pinkett updates you’re sticking to your word and really love the direction you’re taking! Please keep up the great work, have been following you for years and will definitely stay following!
Gag me with a spoon.
that´s really cool of her…
Wow! Awesome!
Shoutout to all to “doers” especially you Necole Bitchie.com.. You did that!
Necole, I grew up on Brandy also. I remember watching Thea, buying I wanna be down cd, watching Moesha, and during my senior year of high school bumping, Never say Never.
I´m jaded as fugg and make no bones about it. But that was a beautiful story.
She´s such a good person. I love her!
I´ve always been in Brandy´s corner. I´m a big fan and buy all of her music. She seems like such a sweet person. I love her!
What a great story! Reminds me of my encounter with Whitney and makes me love Brandy even more. Thx for sharing!
I feel the same way you do about Brandy.
I am truly moved for beatfacehoney. This keeps me inspired as to dreams do come true.
Im down for anything brandy.music/television/movies! hope she comes threw central Fl soon!
Necole Bitchie.com. girrrrrl I was odee bored till youu brought me back to life I saw this thing on Google saying that you are about 190,000 dollars worth if anyone took your Facebook Twitter or website name random as hell but I know I was like damm lol.