I can laugh about it now, but when I was 10, all the other young violinists around me had huge brown bruises, and I had none. So I got out my mum’s make-up, and painted on brown eyeshadow to show I was like the others. My mum went mad – ‘Are you squeezing your violin too much with your chin? You must be doing something wrong!’ But it did look impressive.

-Janine Jansen (article here)
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