Make-up Artist

Duties and responsibilities: A make-up artist is a person who uses cosmetic techniques and processes to create beauty upon human body. It enhances a person’s appearance, bringing out color and features and hiding or smoothing out flaws using cosmetic products. There are two kinds of make-up artist, cosmetic or fashion artist the other is theatrical and film make-up artist. Cosmetic artists, usually work on run ways. They work with designers to create looks on the model such as, emphasizing the lip shape or check bones. Film make-up artists; enhance an actor’s features to emphasize the character he or she plays in performance art. Young actors can be made look old and older actors to look younger, also creative characters can be created from nothing, as well as the makeup can change as the character changes in the course of the story. They must learn to work with different lighting conditions, the distance between the stage and the audience, and the requirements determined by high definition and digital cameras.

Salary: $ 64,450- $ 91,640 (that’s $ 25 to $ 44 hourly.)

Education: To become a makeup artist, you must have a deep love with cosmetics.  Each states requirement differ, some states have a separate license where individuals can specialize in that field only. Others states make you have a full cosmetology certification. Some don’t require anything but make-up artist training which typically run from 300-600 hours depending on the state and take less than 6 months to complete. Full cosmetology programs tend to be 1500 – 2000 hour to complete and take 12 to 24 months to complete.

Reflection: I would like to become a make-up artist because it seems like a fun easy job that pays well if you’re really good at it. I think it is a good job because you do art on people and help them feel better. Also you can meet famous people if you’re really good at make-up. Another thing about this is that you can express yourself through make-up, you don’t need a lot of educational requirements .