‘I used to be homeless at 17 however now I make £10,000 a month as an influencer’

One girl is sharing how she managed to drag herself out of homelessness to earn a dwelling as a magnificence influencer.

Shantania Beckford makes £10,000 a month by means of her social media job and has over 220,000 followers on Instagram.

Moving to the UK from Jamaica on the age of 9, she helped her mum as a cleaner after she completed college.

At the age of 17, Ms Beckford was left with no residence after her mum returned to Jamaica and needed to depend on the assist of household and pals.

To get again on her toes, the entrepreneur labored 45-hour weeks in her native hen store whereas nonetheless attending school.

Speaking to Shera, the now 30-year-old mentioned how she managed to go from homelessness to the world of magnificence influencing.

She defined: “After college, I would take an hour bus from Dudley, back home and then work till 1 am, then go home.

“I was making £400 a month. Sometimes there was no electricity [where I was staying] so I would just stay in college till it closed, then shower in the cold water.

“I was doing makeup throughout this as a way to escape. Creating helps me to escape and it gave me extra money, so make-up has been a side hustle for a long time.”

With the cash made, Ms. Beckford was in a position to transfer right into a hostel and follow her make-up abilities with the opposite residents.

After making some extra cash working at Wagamama, she was given her personal council flat in January 2014.

Finally having her personal area, the content material creator determined to make the transfer into creating make-up tutorials.

Ms Beckford added: “I saved for a Canon camera, my lights, and for a laptop, and then I taught myself how to edit and the basics of YouTube.

“The first thing that I ever did was a zombie make-up tutorial. I went to Poundland and bought all the zombie make-up stuff which cost me about £6.

“It was finally a chance for me to be myself finally and show who I am.

“I started with pure intention to just have focus and do what I can. I was doing about 50 hours a week work plus doing my YouTube – I was on a mission.

“Within six months, I had 10,000 followers and I was so happy.”