Don't just be willing to hear your parents out actively ask for their input in the decision. The better you understand why they don't want you to wear makeup, the better you can address their concerns. "I know why I think makeup will make me feel better. Why do you think it will be bad for me?" Pay close attention to what they say, and try to answer each of their concerns directly. Your parents might be worried that overnight, you're going to change from their little girl to a fully made-up woman. Ease that concern by starting small. Say that you want to start with only concealer and blush to hide your acne. You might ask for a little more leeway every year, as you get older. After a year, ask if you can add eye-shadow to your makeup routine, or eye-liner. If your parents are worried that you're trying to grow up too fast, they might be right. Think of how silly your mother would look with bright pink lipstick and blue nail polish! She looks good in makeup because she wears makeup appropriate for her age. Explain to your parents that you'll do the same thing. Ask for lightly tinted lip balms or glosses instead of a deep red, sexy lipstick. Keep all makeup on your face light and natural-looking. You want to enhance your natural beauty, not change your face. Maybelline Baby Lips is a good tinted lip balm to start out with. You don't want your parents to think that you want something for nothing. Be willing to give them something they want in return for your makeup privileges. Some examples might include: You can only wear makeup as long as you keep your grades up. You'll take on an extra weekly chore around the house. Makeup doesn't have to mean that you're growing up and away from your parents. It can actually bring you closer together! Go to sephora/local makeup store or watch YouTube tutorials with your mom, you could look at products and find out what is acceptable and unacceptable. YouTube tutorials would give clear ideas of what makeup looks are okay and what aren't. Going into the store also allows for an associate to help find products that satisfy your wants and your parents rules. Ask your mother to go shopping with you for the first time so she can teach you how to choose makeup. When you get home, ask her to help you practice applying it. Get her advice on how to match makeup to your skin color. Take her advice on what colors she thinks will look good on you. Make sure to maintain a good attitude the whole time. By making makeup fun for your mom, you increase the odds that she'll let you wear it more often.

Summary: Ask them to explain their concerns. Start small at first. Ask only for age-appropriate makeup. Negotiate a deal with your parents. Make makeup a bonding experience.

It's the green icon with two overlapping chat bubbles inside. You'll usually find it on your home screen. It's at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Select the person to whom you wish to send a GIF. This opens a conversation. Another way to open a conversation is to tap Contacts at the bottom of the screen, select a user, then tap Messages. It's next to the typing box at the bottom of the screen. This opens a variety of WeChat stickers. This opens a list of every sticker in the pack. Swipe left across the sticker pack area to view more options. If you don't have any sticker packs, tap + at the bottom-left corner of the screen, select a sticker pack, then tap GET. As soon as you tap the sticker it will appear in the chat.

Summary: Open WeChat on your iPhone or iPad. Tap Chat. Tap a conversation. Tap the smiley face icon. Tap a GIF sticker collection. Tap the sticker you want to send.

Start by asking yourself, "Why am I writing a backstory for this character?" "What purpose will the backstory serve in my main story?" Consider how the backstory will deepen your character and strengthen your narrative. Identify what you want the backstory to do in your main story. This will help you start the backstory with purpose and intent. For example, you may want the backstory to reveal a character's haunted past and help to explain why a character is so damaged in the present. Or you may want the backstory to show the character's complicated relationship with their father, who has just passed away in the present. To help you get started on the backstory, sit down and outline a brief timeline of the character's life. Begin from their childhood to their present. Draw a line indicating their life span and break it into sections for "childhood," "adolescence," and "adulthood." You can then briefly plot key experiences or moments of the character's life on the timeline. If you are writing about a character who is a teenager, you may only have childhood and adolescence sections on the timeline. If you are writing from a child's perspective, you may only have a childhood section, broken into smaller parts. To help you get a better sense of what makes a good backstory, read examples of a backstory in literature. Most popular novels will have a backstory woven into the narrative. Many short stories will also contain a backstory throughout or broken into sections that go from the present to the past. Examples of a backstory in writing include Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, "Tiny Smiling Daddy" by Mary Gaitskill, and Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Go through your favorite stories and identify where a backstory is placed in the narrative. Notice how long the backstory is in the narrative and how it is woven into current events in the story. Often you can identify the backstory in your favorite stories by a shift from the present tense to the past tense. There may also be an indicative clause at the beginning of the backstory like "When I was a child" or "As a young girl".

Summary: Identify the purpose of a backstory in your story. Make a timeline of the character's life. Read examples of a backstory.

Hold a normal deck of cards in your hands. Keep one or two jokers in the deck. Show the deck to the audience and let them see you shuffle it. It is essential that your audience doesn't notice you peep at the bottom card. You'll need to memorize the bottom card. Act casual and show them the top of the deck while you look at the bottom. Ask an audience member to pick a card. Once they have the card ask them to memorize it and place it on top. Insist that they don't let you see the card, but tell them to show others if they want. Place the bottom half on top of the card placed on top. This puts the card you memorized directly on top of their card. You can do as many cuts as you want, as long as they are single cuts. Pretend to look for jokers and take them out, but also find the card you memorized. Their card is resting directly on top of it. Cut the deck again so that their card is on top. Cutting the deck a second time may take a few trials and errors before doing it seamlessly. Have them pick a number between ten and twenty. Deal that many cards off the top of the deck. Take that amount of cards and hold them between your thumb and pointer, have them slap the cards and the one farthest to the left should be their card. Make sure you hold that one tightly so that it doesn't fall out. Adding the card slap and additional shuffling adds to the showmanship of the card trick. These additional steps also help distract the audience of how simple it really is.
Summary: Prepare your deck. Sneak a peak. Engage the audience. Cut the deck in half. Look through the cards. Finish the trick.