By Anntrell Sylvia-Brown
Photo
Courtesy of Laamajthegod
Jamaal
Smoot, aka Laamajthegod, sporting a makeup style with MAC cosmetics
Jamaal
Smoot, also known as Laamajthegod, is one of the most innovative make-up
artists and aspiring radio personalities on the Atlanta Metropolitan State
College campus and since arriving to the school, he has made women and men
across the campus feel beautiful.
Smoot,
a first-generation college student, attends school for mass communication and
has plans of running his own radio station similar to the Rickey Smiley Morning
Show or like the Breakfast Club. He has attended Atlanta Metro since he was a
sophomore in high school through Dual Enrollment and Upward Bound programs and
has progressed to finishing up his degree there. Our school mentions that the
Dual Enrollment program at Atlanta Metro allows students to take college course
credits which can applied toward both satisfying high school credits and
towards a college degree. Along with
that, the school references Upward Bound as a tool to strengthen science and
mathematical techniques to aid in the excelling of in college. The program
serves those who are low-income families and who are first-generation college
students. Those academic programs gave him the necessary drive to go above and
beyond the norm.
“I
feel like, Jamaal Smoot or as I know him, Laamaj is such a wonder person,”
Chandria Freeman, Smoot’s classmate and friend who is a sophomore mass
communication major from Atlanta. “He keeps me laughing and smiling even when
he says a simple hello.”
Smoot
is an extroverted person and loves for everyone to be happy and be a better
version of their selves. He sets out a goal and achieves it academically and
throughout his personal life. Our mass communication teacher coined the name
“on the ball Jamaal” because of his strive for success. His stage name gives
him the drive to be a powerhouse in the community of friends and throughout the
night club scene.
He
originates from Queens, N.Y., and is the youngest of five children on his
parent’s side. While being the youngest of the family, he is also the most
artistic on his family. During his school years, he actively participated in
art clubs and several fashion clubs which developed his deep love of doing
makeup
“He’s
a go-getter that’s for sure,” said Tierra Sims, a friend of Smoot who is a
sophomore computer science major from Atlanta. “If he doesn’t get it done then
something is wrong.”
Smoot
mentions that he never imagined doing makeup for a living but he has come to
love it. As a child, he played with G.I. Joes and cut and design the toy’s
clothing to mimic what he saw on TV or in fashion magazines such as Vogue. His
deep curiosity for fashion aided him to become poised in his craft.
Two
years ago in February he began to do his own makeup and tested what made him
feel confident. He still had a lot to learn but his friends ran to him with the
request of doing their very own makeup. The funniest highlights of his makeup
journey included a night where he went to a night club and experimented with
different shades and eyeshadows from his norm. He partied and went home with a
hangover. The next day, his friends sent tweets and messages saying that he was
on the popular gossip website MediaTakeOut where they dissed his makeup but
said he had a wonderful personality. During that time, he shrugged off the hate
and used that as a motivator to improve his techniques and step his game up in
the nightclub scene. Every time his friends mention they want to learn how to
do makeup, he lets them know that you have to try and if it’s bad then that’s
fine. It has to be bad first to even get better and learn from your mistakes.
“You
know how they say you never really master until you mess it up,” said Smoot who
is a sophomore mass communication major from Queens, N.Y. “Well I remember I
did my makeup and went out thinking I was slaying.”
He
gets inspiration from 90’s high fashion and gathers makeup looks from Chanel
98. He feels that era is beautiful and had a variety of unique looks.
Along
with makeup, Smoot plans on starting his own radio broadcasting station that
will be entertaining and filled with humor. He wants to set himself apart from
other radio personalities by being relatable and highly credible so he may
build trust and gain fans in the process. He has been looking into internships
that may give him the experience he needs and the upper hand in his job field.
“I
have big plans for the future and I hope that you guys will never forget
Lamaaj,”
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