From med school to the art world
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:19 am
Before McFerran founded Glamnetic when she was 26 years old, she had graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a bachelor of science in psychobiology. She was on the pre-med path when she realized it was no longer for her. “I wasn’t happy doing medicine because I was much more of a creative person. I’m a true creative: I’m left-handed, my mom was a painter, and so I always had this natural inclination towards painting.”
In what appears to be a fairly seamless career transition, McFerran pursued the life of a professional fine artist for four years, selling her first $10,000 painting straight out of college. She moved to L.A. proper permanently, seeing far more opportunity there to be successful in the art world than in the small town where she grew up.
Ann McFerran artist
Here, in this creative community, McFerran became interested in bangladesh phone data entrepreneurship. She mingled with other entrepreneurs she met at art events and soaked up their knowledge. While she loved seeing people get excited and emotional when they received her paintings, McFerran knew her business wasn’t scalable. The work, too, began to wear on her mental health. Painting began to have its limits.
“I found it really difficult emotionally going from one project to another, then having to stay in all day and literally paint by myself for eight hours straight,” she says. “It was back-breaking work. Sure, I was making good money, but I just knew it wasn’t scalable and I was really lonely doing it.”
McFerran, putting visual art on the backburner, looked to take her creative instincts elsewhere, landing on building a small business of her own, one that would be fulfilling and scalable. Here, she thought: lashes.
In what appears to be a fairly seamless career transition, McFerran pursued the life of a professional fine artist for four years, selling her first $10,000 painting straight out of college. She moved to L.A. proper permanently, seeing far more opportunity there to be successful in the art world than in the small town where she grew up.
Ann McFerran artist
Here, in this creative community, McFerran became interested in bangladesh phone data entrepreneurship. She mingled with other entrepreneurs she met at art events and soaked up their knowledge. While she loved seeing people get excited and emotional when they received her paintings, McFerran knew her business wasn’t scalable. The work, too, began to wear on her mental health. Painting began to have its limits.
“I found it really difficult emotionally going from one project to another, then having to stay in all day and literally paint by myself for eight hours straight,” she says. “It was back-breaking work. Sure, I was making good money, but I just knew it wasn’t scalable and I was really lonely doing it.”
McFerran, putting visual art on the backburner, looked to take her creative instincts elsewhere, landing on building a small business of her own, one that would be fulfilling and scalable. Here, she thought: lashes.