ooooh I love clean and powerful makeup, and I do fun looks whenever I feel like dressing up. I have ADHD too and one thing I love about makeup is that I go into total hyper focus when doing it, which means creating elaborate looks (once I figured out how to do them) is pretty easy.

I recommend watching videos by qualified MUAs if you want to figure out the actual best techniques (and see looks on women of a variety of ages, facial features, and skin tones). I’m from the UK and watch ig reels by Liv Hudson for inspiration because that’s the style I wear every day, but Robert Welsh, Hindash, Lisa Eldridge, and Wayne Goss are amazing MUAs that are widely loved in makeup communities. Painted by Spencer is also amazing. don’t get intimidated by insanely beautiful looks - just a couple of years ago I didn’t wear anything apart from eyeliner, blush, and lipstick and now I can create gorgeous looks in less than an hour.

I recommend starting with the absolute basics and slowly working your way up - pencil eyeliner, concealer, powder blush, pressed powder, mascara, tinted brow gel, and a simple wash of neutral eyeshadow along with lipstick will go a long way. figure out a simple daily look and what products work best for your skin type. once you have the basics down well then start adding in other things you might want like bronzer, contour, highlighter, liquid eyeliner, falsies, foundation, lipliner.

if you’re really into fun looks I suggest getting a water activated liner palette and a drugstore eyeshadow palette. I like the Revolution forever flawless palettes, they can be hit or miss (but as far as drugstore goes they’re pretty good) but they have a variety of colours and shimmers. I use mine a lot, it used to be my daily palette. water activated liner will enable you to do a variety of fun designs on your lids, and even for a beginner it’ll be relatively easy to get the hang of even if there is a bit of a learning curve.