My Covid-19 experience: make-up artist risks business to tell her story
- Professional make-up artist Natasha Moor tells of what it’s like to have Covid-19 in Hong Kong and warns others to take measures seriously
- Despite the good cheer in her Instagram posts, there are moments when she is plagued by more dire thoughts
Make-up artist Natasha Moor’s 59,000 Instagram followers would likely never have known she had tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, if she wasn’t posting videos about it.
It is a bold move for someone whose job revolves around flying to different countries and touching people’s faces – both frowned upon during this time – as she applies make-up to clients for events like weddings. It could potentially have a lasting hit on her business. But Moor does not worry about what people think of her.
“I do not care for small-minded people who think I’m some kind of untouchable monster because I tested positive for the corona[virus]. I know I have a voice – and I need to use it,” Moor says, adding she knew there was gossip about her floating around WhatsApp.
“What I wanted to do was speak my truth … My business motto has always been intended to help women feel empowered. My tag line – ‘In a world full of ordinary, be Moor’ – was intended as very tongue-in-cheek, but now, I’ve got to be the spokes-model for it.”
Moor is patient number 313 out of more than 1,000 people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in Hong Kong since the first reported case in the city on January 22.
