# @naomilouisemakeup on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrA8qDjRm-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69188535-naomilouisemakeup-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/20c1337dcf.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05T20:37:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Naomi | Essex Bridal & Soft Glam Makeup Artist (@naomilouisemakeup) — https://gondola.cc/naomilouisemakeup

## Caption

Nobody warns you that ADHD gets more expensive when you go self employed.

I've bought the same product three times because it was sat in a
different kit. I've paid for software I opened literally once and forgot to cancel so many trials. I bought a whole
new brush set at 11pm because I couldn't face washing the
ones I already had.

There's a full cold coffee in my car from Sunday. From the machine I
bought so I'd stop buying coffee out.

Twelve of them in here. Some are funny. Two of them really aren't.

Here's the bit I actually wanted to say though.

I was overwhelmed for years. Properly overwhelmed, and I'd been doing it
so long I thought that was just what running your own business felt like.
Looking back I genuinely don't know how I was holding all of it.

AI has taken so much of that off me. Not in a shiny way, in a really
boring practical way. It holds the stuff I can't hold. It starts the
things I can't start. It means my brain gets to do the bit it's actually
good at instead of drowning in the rest of it.

I'm not exaggerating when I say it's changed how much I can cope with.

If you want the full list of what I actually use, and what it was all
costing me before, comment TAX and I'll send it over.

#adhdwomen #adhdinbusiness #selfemployeduk #makeupartistuk #adhdtax

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adhdinbusiness, adhdtax, adhdwomen, makeupartistuk, selfemployeduk

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