Self-taught makeup artist Latassie Sealey is known for the looks she creates for her clients. A former officer of the Guyana Police Force, Latassie took up make up artistry professionally four years ago and began doing it full time just last year, having left the force to pursue her passion.
For the most part, Latassie remembers being an angry teenager after her mother passed away when she was 13 years old. She struggled with a life that should have allowed her to be carefree. When her mother died, Latassie and her two siblings were separated. She ended up with an aunt and her family in Linden.
“Growing up I was very warrish; I was rude and would end up in arguments. This was mainly while I was a teenager,” she recalled. “I grew up in Kitty and left for Christianburg, Linden after my mom died; she was HIV positive. After her death, my siblings and I were split up. I was sent from one relative to another. Whenever one got fed up with having me, I was sent to another. To me, I was on my own although I was with relatives. I was fed once a day many times and there were times I went to school hungry. If there was breakfast it was mainly black tea and bake, the soft kind that was dropped into the oil, some people call it monkey ears or okro belly skin….”