![]() They will have invested hundreds and even thousands of dollars on brushes alone and not those cheap $30 sets from China but high quality brushes. ![]() You might fool those who don't know better but trust me, the folks that work and care about this industry will know.Ī real makeup artist has spent time crafting a professional kit filled with professional, high quality grade cosmetics. Try to go this route and you could find yourself blackballed in the industry effectively shutting you out from the REAL industry. I know too many folks at various companies and am told stories almost on a daily basis from someone trying to get a pro account/card from them. So whose composite cards are they sending to you? If it's their work or stock photos trust me the folks that approve the pro accounts at many companies and at Make Up Artist Magazine are not fools and are not stupid. The images are to be of models or clients you worked on and it's to showcase your BEST work. Whose composite cards are they using because composite cards are to showcase YOUR PROFESSIONAL work. Once you "pass" their quizzes - which looking at the "classes" taught don't seem to include the basics a professional makeup artist should know - they will send you a package with your "pro certification", business cards, composite cards and instructions to apply for pro discounts. ![]() There is no right way in becoming a professional makeup artist but there is a WRONG way and that's to take "courses" from sites like LiveGlam or take "seminars" by people like Esther Romo who have no business handing out "certificates" that mean nothing to industry leaders or companies. Depending on which area a person wants to go you can apprentice (assist) an established makeup artist, you can start your own business or you can start at a counter and work for a specific makeup company like MAC or Bobbi Brown. Many of the industry leaders are self taught or are from a makeup dynasty like the Westmore family and many have gone to an ACCREDITED school such as Make-Up Designory, Cinema Makeup School, Vancouver Film School. There are many branches to the makeup artistry industry and many roads to take to become a REAL professional makeup artist. (Don't confuse a professional license with a business license, two different things for another discussion.) As a result there are more and more social media personalities on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube who claim to be a "professional makeup artist" and they're not. Now if you're in the movie/tv industry as a freelancer well that's a whole other story but suffice it to say a professional license is not needed. If you're a Union hairstylist you are REQUIRED to be a cosmetologist. If you're a Union makeup artist basically you need to pass a test for color blindness. Almost ALL states require a cosmetology license to touch hair however if working on a movie set and you're freelance it's not required but that's a whole other discussion. ![]() For those in the US only a handful of states actually require a person to have a professional license (cosmetology license, esthetician's license) in order to do makeup. This industry unfortunately is not regulated. It is not a ME job unless you're a social media personality whose job is to shill products on behalf of a company that they work for or with. Your job is to make someone look pretty, grungy, haunting or whatever the job requires you to do. This is a SERVICE industry those who work in this industry are "the help" (as Kevin James Bennett once stated). To become a professional makeup artist it takes work, dedication and knowledge as well as talent and the skills to do the job. I need to preface this by saying I'm not going to sugarcoat things in this blog post in order to "be nice" for a few reasons which will come clear within this blog post.
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