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Whether you're interested in the field of makeup artistry to learn bring out your best features or to break into a career where you may transform a person into a tiger, age a teenager into a retiree or turn a lively body into something that looks like a corpse, there are a variety of ways to learn the ropes of the industry. Whether you study on your own or seek out makeup industry professionals, you'll be on your way to putting your best face forward.
Instructions
1. Keep inexpensive makeup supplies and a mirror on hand while watching instructional videos such as the "Event Makeup Artist DVD Course," which covers shaping brows, matching powders, organizing the makeup kit, daytime and nighttime looks and applying makeup to the face.
Purchase a beginner's makeup artistry book such as "Professional Make-up Artistry" by Julia Conway, "The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist" by Vincent J-R. Kehoe, "FabJob Guide to Becoming a Makeup Artist" by Jennifer James or "The Art of Makeup" by Kevyn Aucoin. Be sure to select something with lots of photo illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Books are available from online retailers such as Amazon and Book Closeouts or standard booksellers such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. Your library may be able to order you a book to check out for a few weeks.
3. Join a makeup artist industry association, which may offer membership rosters, conferences, local organizations and continuing education and training. For example, the National Association of Screen Makeup Artists & Hairdressers, located in England, offers a discount on courses in period hairstyling and a three-day prosthetics master class.
4. Volunteer to serve as an intern or assistant to the in-house makeup artist at a local theater company. You'll get instant hands-on experience without having to invest in your own supplies until you're ready. Over the course of a year, a local theater may put on four or more shows, giving you a variety of different makeup opportunities.
5. Watch makeup artist DVDs or CD-ROMs to learn from home at your own pace. Enroll in a makeup program or school where you can take topics such as introduction to makeup artistry, period makeup, airbrush makeup, old age makeup, bald caps and hair work, injuries and effects, character makeup and ethnic makeup. Makeup programs may teach courses a la carte or in a long-term program. Schools may require prior beauty experience or a portfolio of work before acceptance while others welcome students new to the industry.2.
