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You might not instantly recognise Margaret Zhang’s face, but chances are you’ve seen the 21-year-old law/commerce student around – probably on Instagram’s popular page. She’s a fashion blogger, stylist, photographer and ambassador for Clinique’s global Face Forward campaign, who has 493,000+ followers on Instagram.
She doesn’t own trackpants. She embraces Mt Everest-sized pimples. And her dad thinks that being a fashion blogger means she runs a clothing shop. We caught up with her to talk life, beauty and success.
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What’s the one makeup look you’ll never be able to master?
“A smokey eye. The thing with Asian eyelids is that the crease doesn’t start where your eyeball starts, if that makes sense. So that’s a really big mistake I made when I was younger, I couldn’t figure out the smokey eye situation from YouTube tutorials. Normally don’t do eye make-up under my eyes. As you can probably see now from smiling so much it kind of smudges under my eyes.”
Being a fashion blogger, photographer and creative director, I can imagine what you do can be confusing to people who don’t quite get what you do.
“Well my dad thinks I have a shop. So that doesn’t work out because I don’t. I have so many samples coming in and out for the shoots and all the styling work I do and dad will say, ‘How’s the stock moving?’, and I’m like ‘Five years dad, five years.’ He tells all his friends that I have a shop and it’s really disappointing for them when they come to my website and it’s not a shop.”