Freelance Makeup Artist advice and tips
Any person that wants to be a freelance makeup artist should know that it’s such a fun career. It always changes and every day is different from the one before. I love meeting with and working with different people, and getting to know what their favorite looks are. I love bringing out the beauty in their individual faces and working with the various skin types and features. Besides having a lot of passion and creativity, you must have great people skills because patience is a must, and you will deal with a lot of different personalities. Doing wedding makeup can be challenging because it’s normal for the bride to get stressed as the wedding day approaches, but you must keep it professional and positive at all times. Do not let someone else’s mood effect you because it will reflect on you as a professional.
You don’t necessarily have to go to school, but you need to have an understanding of color theory and know how different colors interact with skin tones and other colors. You need to know how to balance and cancel out other colors, and you also need to know about shading, contouring, and how to bring out the best in different eye shapes. As a freelance makeup artist, it’s important to know about basic cosmetic ingredients and understand how they work with the skin. You can apprentice with a makeup artist and learn just as much because hands-on practice is key, and provides more knowledge than textbooks. Other makeup artists can teach you little tips and tricks that you don’t learn in school.
There are many different makeup schools all over the country, but if you don’t have the money to invest, you can always attend seminars to gain the knowledge you need. You can learn about special effects, beauty, commercial, film, and print. There are many different areas to go into, so don’t get too concentrated on beauty and fashion makeup. You must get a portfolio, and the best way to do it is to go into a modeling agency and work TFP with a photographer. TFP is “time for print” and that’s where you do the makeup on a model, and the agency “pays” you with print photos. With this, you don’t have to invest your own $ into hiring a photographer, but you will have to invest the time.
If working as a freelance makeup artist is what you want to do, then don’t let anybody stop you from doing it. If you have a passion for it, it’s better to pursue it than to spend the rest of your life wondering about “what could have been”. All it takes is passion, creativity, designing, and a love for people.
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