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[makeupcourstips]

Which certification is best for makeup artist?

The best certification for a makeup artist can depend on various factors, including your career goals, location, and specialization within the makeup industry. Here are some widely recognized and respected certifications and credentials for makeup artists:

Certified Makeup Artist (CMA)

The Certified Makeup Artist credential is offered by various makeup schools and organizations. It's a general certification that signifies that you've completed a makeup artist training program. The specific requirements and curriculum may vary between providers.

Diploma or Certificate from a Reputable Makeup School

Completing a makeup artistry program at a well-established and reputable makeup school can provide you with a valuable diploma or certificate. Some renowned makeup schools include Makeup Designory (MUD), the Makeup Forever Academy, and the AOFM Makeup School.

Online Makeup Artist Certification

Online makeup artist certification programs are available, offering flexibility for students who can't attend in-person classes. These programs often include video tutorials, assignments, and assessments to earn a certificate.

Specialized Certifications

Depending on your makeup career goals and specialization, you may pursue specialized certifications. For example:

Bridal Makeup Certification: If you want to specialize in bridal makeup, you can seek certification specifically in bridal makeup techniques.

Special Effects Makeup Certification: For those interested in special effects makeup for film and theater, certification in this area is valuable.

Fashion or Editorial Makeup Certification: To work in the fashion and editorial industry, a certification focused on high-fashion and runway makeup may be beneficial.

Professional Makeup Associations

Some professional makeup associations, such as the Makeup Artists Association (MAA) and the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), offer memberships and certifications. These can provide networking opportunities and industry recognition.

State Licensing (if applicable)

In some regions or countries, makeup artists may need to obtain a state or local license to practice professionally. Be sure to check the licensing requirements in your area.

[mina-ardoueiazar]

Mina Ardoueiazar-Makeup Artist

Mina Ardoueiazar is a beauty guru and an award-winning makeup artist. She has worked with some of the most influential people in the world including Madonna, Beyoncé, and Lady Gaga. Mina Ardoueiazar was born in Tehran, Iran. She moved to LA when she was 12 years old. Her first job as a makeup artist was working on her mother's wedding day. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles where she received her degree in fashion design and marketing before moving to New York City to study at the prestigious Makeup Designory (MUD).  https://sites.google.com/view/mina-ardoueiazar/home

[18th-c-witch]

Pretty princess liner today ✨💎

[nervousandtwitchy]

Swamp monster

[spookiifi]

3 and 21 (Pure Ask) :3

3. Last thing that made you laugh 

This prank call video 0:58 Headphone warning

21. Any goals for 2021

Saving up to move out <3 There are a lot of other goals that have been put on hold because of quarantine. By a miracle vaccine, I’d love to move back in with my roommates and head to my Makeup Designory classes. 

I also want to improve my tarot readings. Currently, I’m only practicing the past, present, and future, along with one card a month. I’d love to be able to do readings for others. <3

[trixemattel]

🌻 use as many as i send as needed

ily for sending so many 🥰🥰

uhhh i’m gonna talk about makeup because i’m going to makeup school in 2 months?? which is INSANE! i’m going to makeup designory in nyc (idk if anyone goes or has ever been) but it’s a tiny little school in manhattan and it’s 7 month program. come visit me in nyc bb

[mudcosmetics-blog]

MY favorite teacher; MUD LA

Ray Shaffer

When you ask anyone about Ray Shaffer, industry profession or student will tell you is the kindest, most genuine, and hard working man they know. He is the gentleman of this profession. His road to makeup wasn't a direct course, but that's what has made him an excellent artist and a phenomenal teacher.

"I was born at the Submarine Base in Groton, CT. My Dad was in the Navy at the time and worked on nuclear submarines. Part of my childhood was very residential, and part of it was moving around a lot because I was part of a navy and a coast guard family.

I first got interested in makeup when I was very very young. My Mom still is a nurse. She's been a trauma nurse for about 54 years, and she's finally going to retire this spring. She used to work the 3-11 shift at St. Vincent's Hospital. She would get off work around midnight or so, and come home to get me out of bed to watch Mission Impossible reruns together. There were lots of disguises in the show and my head just smoked at the idea that people could be different people. My Dad, who really wasn't into monster movies, but when I was 5 or 6 he would stay up with me to watch the Creature Feature at night. That was really cool because he's a very down to earth guy and monsters really weren't his thing."

Your first introduction to practical makeup came in the friendly familiar form.

"I remember when I was 12 or so, Dick Smith had a Monster Makeup Kit that you could buy at toy stores. I was saving up from my paper route to buy it, and I would go into KB toy store and look at it longingly. My birthday is in October and I was hoping to have it in time for Halloween, but I knew I was going to be a few bucks short. Well on my birthday my grandparents came over. My Grandpa drove a big green Chrysler, and I was feeling bummed when he called me over to it. He pulled out a box and he had bought me the Dick Smith Makeup Kit!

Basically it was vaccuform molds that you could make your own appliances on out of gelatin, although Dick called it flesh flags. He was looking for something easy to use and relatively non toxic, which it was. The whole heating it up thing was a little weird. You probably couldn't get away with that now. But the first makeups or appliances I did were out of the Dick Smith Kit. Later on I found Stage Makeup by Richard Corson in the library and that put me up on a different level.

I remember the first appliance makeup I ever tried to do on my own was a Rocky makeup. I was 14 or 15 trying to recreate the boxer damage makeup. I remember being very happy with it at the time. Then I lost the pictures, but I'm very glad because it was probably awful. It was a lot of fun. Later I remember what a thrill it was to meet Mike Westmore when he came out to MUD to talk. He had been the makeup artist on the first few Rocky movies, and on First Blood and Raging Bull, and all these cool films, plus Star Trek. It was really cool!

So how did you turn your interest in makeup into a career?

"I started out wanting to act. I'd always loved makeup, but being from the east coast, I may as well have being talking about being a rocket scientist or being a ping pong player in China. I didn't understand enough about the field to figure out how to make that happen. I wanted to be an actor, so I used makeup to augment my range as an actor. I'm a pretty unique looking guy. So unless I just wanted to wave a steak knife, or be the guy yelling "die grandma die", I needed a little help to make me believable as other characters.

In the course of working in theater in college, I was working on a play called a reconstruction. It's where you take a classic text and rearrange it. It's usually experimental theater. My college did Hamlet, and my roommate was playing Hamlet's Father. Our director had the idea in his rebelling of it to make him a Viking Chieftain. And what do they do when a they die, but put them in a funeral pyre. So we needed to have this crispy critter corpse kind of guy. A role like that is an awful lot for a 20 year old actor to wrap his head around. He tried different things, but wasn't happy with what he was doing. So I built the mask for him.

I remember him putting it on and staring in the mirror and being very very quiet about it. When you see your face burnt down to the skull the whole idea of how much you've been violated hits you. That night at rehearsal he was a whole different cat! I remember him walking off the stage and hugged me. I was so emotionally overwhelmed by that, that it was probably at the point I jumped ship. I felt I was doing better work influencing other performers than I was enjoying acting myself."

"I sort of dividde my career into East Coast and West Coast. My first prosthetic makeup job ever was in a theater in Massachusetts. I remember they thought I could age a whole cast for $50. I did it! I ended up having to augment it with cotton and latex.

My first job on the west coast was for Rob Burman. It's funny because it just got released! Andrew Gettty who was the grandson of John Paul Getty was a sort of auteur. He wanted to be a film director. He had some very nightmarish visions and he tried to write a narrative around it. Basically he picked away at this film for a long time. He would shoot it a little bit, then he would get upset and stop, then he'd start again with a different crew...and so on and so forth. He passed about 2 years ago or so and his estate had the work completed since he was in post production, and just released it on dvd and video on demand. It's called The Evil Within. There was some creepy stuff in there. There was a spider that was stitched together from human body parts. Lots of practical gags and lots of in camera tricks, things with perspective. I'm not sure if there was any cg at all. But that was my first film. That was also my first job for Rob Berman."

Eventually you made a transition from practical or teaching.

"I came out to the west coast in the summer of 2000, and I worked intermittently then continually was a makeup artist and primarily as a lab technician. Which means I made molds, I did hair work, I did castings, sometimes when the sun shone in the right direction I even sculpted. I did that for 10 years. In the late 2000's, a lot of things really depressed the film industry. SAG went on strike, and the the WGA went on strike. And then the banks crashed, and I navigated that as best I could but nobody was working.

I had to look for another opportunity. Also around this time my mother started getting sick. Mom is a tank so I knew if something was wrong with Mom then I wanted to be there. So I went back to the east coast to try to be of use to my family. In the course of wanting to stay busy I was going through Craig's List, and there was an ad the MUD NY was looking for instructors. At the time I didn't even know MUD had a campus in NY. So I contacted them.

I know that I'm a patient guy, and I hoped that I'd be descent at teaching. I was surprised by how much I loved it! There was an adjustment. It's challenging to take 20 people who are all at different motivation levels, ability levels, artistic levels and to guide them as a unit through things they sometimes don't believe they can do. So there is a learning curve. What started out as something I wanted to try, turned out to be something I love very very much. I think of friends back home who are knocking rust off of boats and making t shirts and working in fast food stores, and I've got the best job on planet earth.

With having a career sculpting, molding, applying, and painting, what part of the process is your favorite?

"What do I love doing? I love sculpture and molding. What is it that I love about makeup? I just love the whole idea that we can make things that never existed before. That you can sit down with a motivated actor and a little artistic vision and hard work, you can take a bag of cement and a block of wax clay and turn that into people, and species and creatures that the world has never seen before. It's so creative and only limited by your skill set and your imagination. And there's not a lot of that left in the world anymore. Everything is prepackaged. For us to be able to make something that is so unique individual in this world is something else."

What has changed about the industry from your perspective?

"I think computers have become a bigger part of it but even that is cyclic. Now there's a big push back. I think makeup and computers are both awesome tools, provided they are used appropriately for their strengths. If I use a hammer to hammer a nail it's a wonderful tool. If I use a hammer to saw a table in half, it's sort of a mess.

When all of the changes started happening was when Avatar came out. That scared the begezus out of all of us. There had been fun cg characters for some time, but Avaatar was the first instance where a director could look through the viewfinder on the camera and in front of him was people in motion capture suits. In real time he was seeing blue kitty people in the jungle. Basically when everyone saw that it was a huge hit, it freaked everyone out. Everyone making films at the time stopped and went into turn around. They wanted to evaluate this new option, and there was only one studio in the world that was doing work that good, WETA. Other studios caught up, but it took a while and meantime nobody was working.

There was a time when every action or adventure film you saw was just filled with lots of cartoons. Then there was almost a backlash against it. People were tired of watching confused looking actors standing around monsters that clearly aren't there. The Star Wars Prequels are a great example. People standing around in a green room looking confused. I think people missed what makeup brought to performances. I think the physical space that they fill on screen. There's a real tangible quality to them. If you look at the cast of Phantom Menace, they are clearly great actors but you look at how they struggled in that movie. Then you look at a movie like Alien, you have Sigourney Weaver in a real space with a guy in costume in a smokey alley with smile dribbling on her, that affects your performance.

Great makeups in your presence effect your performance. All the sudden you feel like you're in the presence of an alien, or a senator from another planet in a way that someone standing talking to a mark on the wall does not. They're effecting in a way that cg often does not. It's nice to see it come back. I think everything runs in cycles. In some ways opportunities have declined, and in other ways they have not. There are far more people making movies now a days, whether it's a YouTube movie, netflicks, a feature, a low budget thing. In some ways there seems to be more work."

And what does the future hold?

"I would be happy teaching as long as MUD is happy having me. I would be happy sculpting and making makeups. I'm getting better and look forward to continuing getting better all the time. There are things I think that are good or bad, but there's always improvement that can be made."

What advice do you want to share for makeup artists?

"Work hard and don't quit. I know that sounds like such a stereotype. A lot of these pieces of advice you hear so often that they lose their meaning but I've seen wonderfully talented people not succeed when they only need to try a little built harder and not quit. A lot of time common sense and a work ethic are super powers. Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

If I have no other gift, I hope a teacher I have a gift to help someone who's straight out of high school, or wherever they are in life believe that they can get through a sculpture. And then they can get through fiberglass. And if you keep on trying doors will open. All luck is is your preparation meeting the right opportunity. So don't quit and believe you can do it. The whole idea of being able to make something from nothing is very empowering. Rob Burman used to say, "once you learn you can make stuff, you're never the same again"."  

[mulderspice]

i have to make an ‘inspiration board’ for a scholarship to the makeup designory in manhattan and i have NO ideas anybody have inkling of an idea please help me out. its pretty much just a page of a quote/images that inspire me 

[dandremichael]

☆MAKEUP "BALD CAP" MAGIC☆ BEFORE & AFTER HAIR TODAY, GONE TODAY - First Time.. Fun Stuff Journeymen Class taught by @toddmcintoshmakeup (Thanks Todd) and #EdFrench @ed.emerson.french (Thanks Ed...you rock) Model / Actor: @rolandojvargas Makeup: @dandremichael #dandremichael #local706 #makeupartist #makeup #esthetician #beforeandafter #bald #baldcap #specialeffectsmakeup #specialfxmakeup #unionmakeupartist #911onFOX My MENTORS and INSPIRATION @makeuphag @suzydiazmakeup @carleighherbert ❤❤❤❤ (at Make-Up Designory Cosmetics) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv-SwLLgx0g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=100byc3yxjsc1

[mina-ardoueiazar]

Professional Makeup Artist | Mina Ardoueiazar

Mina Ardoueiazar is a beauty guru and an award-winning makeup artist. She has worked with some of the most influential people in the world including Madonna, Beyoncé, and Lady Gaga. Mina Ardoueiazar was born in Tehran, Iran. She moved to LA when she was 12 years old. Her first job as a makeup artist was working on her mother's wedding day. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles where she received her degree in fashion design and marketing before moving to New York City to study at the prestigious Makeup Designory (MUD).

https://sites.google.com/view/mina-ardoueiazar/home

[ruthlesscosmo]

I’m so excited to finally be sharing these with you! This is my final for when I was at @makeupdesignory My time and experience there was so unbelievably incredible and I’m so thankful to have been able to complete the Multi Media Program and receive my makeup artist certification. I never thought that I would love Special Effects more than beauty makeup, but my eyes have been opened! I’m so excited for my future now that I have a more clear idea of what I want. ♥️ . . . . . Some brands I used to create this look are: @bennyemakeup @skinillustratorofficial @mudcosmetics @mehronmakeup @makeupforeverus . . . . . #specialeffectsmakeup #professionalmakeupartist #halloween #halloweenmakeup #demonmakeup #prosthetics #makeupdesignory #blood #bloodymakeup @ruthlesscosmo #ruthlesscosmohalloween (at Make-up Designory) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSeuz2j6As/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x2oomdsavoyd

[jennavmakeup-blog]

Makeup for black and white photography on the beautiful @gesnsie #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #makeup #beauty #smokeyeye #nudelip #curlyhair #beauty #fashion #smile #makeupdesignory (at Make-up Designory) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpkBz6Ilu_v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yorv67pja39

[nervousandtwitchy]

Thank you make-up, for magically giving me cheekbones 🙌

[karasucianyc]

#paintedtainted #nofilter #makeup # #mua #mudnyc @ailenoviedo #instaface #instamakeup #instagood #instamood #nudelips #avantgardemakeup #rainbow #phoenix #inspiration #juviasplacepalette #masquerade #coastalscentspalette #mudcosmetics #mudstudent #beauty101 #mmmhmmm (at Make-Up Designory Schools) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGbSOEOBieQ/?igshid=lwxaqfwiussw

[makeupvlove]

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[sluttygoddesspodcast]

Day 5: Self-Reflection Challenge : I am learning to face my fears little by little every day because I now know that once I face my fears I expose them for what it is. : There’s absolutely nothing else that I can fear because all of those things that I have feared were just mask of things that I couldn’t see. : That’s why I’ve been at such a stand still in all aspects of my life. I’ve been allowing fear to hold me back from so many things being fearful has kept me afraid.. What’s the worst that could happen? : FEAR is a made up emotion that we (humans) created: False • Evidence • Appearing • Real : I know that behind the mask could be something great but it could also be something not so great but I won’t be afraid trying to figure it out. : That’s where my true #testimony is going to come from... Knowing I wasn’t afraid to fall because I know I’m going to always get back up 🦋 : I absolutely love being a teacher and I love my incredibly talented students and I thank the universe everyday that I get to share my craft with other amazing future professional makeup artist.... They make me grow everyday as a human who is passionate about inspiring others to be strong no matter what ♥️ .—————————————————. #facingfears #maskoff #strongernow #sandeeismyname #onedayattime #imincharge #ofmylife #nooneisperfect #unleashyourpotential #releashyourfears #befree🍃 #behappy❤️ #youarefree (at Make-Up Designory Schools) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7uN8kopa50/?igshid=twxal90k5y9m