becoming a makeup artist?

Hello beautiful ladies.

So a little bit of my makeup story is basically just that I've loved makeup since my freshman year of highschool and I have now been graduated for 8 months. So I've loved makeup for a long time. But I used to always be so concerned with making money as opposed to doing what I loved. So I never really considered becoming a mua because I worried I wouldnt make enough money. But since graduating I have decided to take it up and I guess my question to you guys is how do you even start? I tried just starting out asking old friends from high school if I could do their prom makeup but no one has reached out to me. I didn't particularly like very many people in high school anyway. How do you get noticed? And what is a reasonably priced train case that you can think of? I just received one in the mail and failed to check the size. Its incredibly small.

 

I don't know how the educational system works in the US for those kind of situations, but I want to assume that you can get certified as a makeup artist by any local school, you can also try beauty college, just so you get your diploma and start gaining experience from there.

You can also try getting small gigs by creating your own Facebook page, which if promoted properly and wisely you can get a lot of viewers. You can also get a part time job at a local salon, so you start meeting costumers and try to build up your contact list. If they like you enough, they might ask you to do some outside work for them and so, you start having your own customers and scheduling private appointments!

You're still very young and you've got plenty of time to figure out what you wanna do, how you want to do it, and start to gain some experience on the field. I turned 25 in April and started taking makeup lessons from a local school and I've learned a lot so far. I'm pretty sure that if I keep at it, I could easily use it as a secondary job.

You can make very good money as a makeup artist, as long as you love what you do, focus on your goals and practice as much as you can. People gotta love your work, so never stop practicing and learning!

Good luck!