Makeup Artist Education & Career Strategy
Let’s discuss mistakes to avoid when promoting yourself as a professional makeup artist… This post is inspired by a very earnest but very poor promotional email I recently received. In the email, this young artist whom I do not know at all, started off by proclaiming how amazing the recipient of the email (me) is, […]
Lessons from dealing with serious illness as a freelance makeup artist… Sick and the freelance makeup artist If you are a regular visitor of the Makeup to Go Blog or particularly if you follow me on Instagram and or Twitter, you know that I have been down temporarily and in fact was hospitalized due to […]
Let’s talk a little bit about fashion, Black models, the beauty biz, and why South Sudanese model Nykhor Paul is rightfully upset If you read beauty/fashion articles and blogs, by now you’ve no doubt read about model Nykhor Paul putting the entire fashion/beauty industry on blast on Instagram. If you haven’t, you can check it […]
The Makeup Show Los Angeles makeup artist trade show 2015 was a particularly good one… may contain affiliate links It is time for my The Makeup Show Los Angeles 2015 Wrap Up post. Gosh… where to even start? I had a fabtabulous time (yes, fabtabulous is a word 😉 ). But seriously I had an […]
Right. You’ve finished makeup school. Time to develop a real makeup kit. Let’s take your kit from Student to Pro I was asked to make a post specifically about taking your makeup kit from student to Pro, and I wanted to be sure to do so before this weekend’s The Makeup Show trade show. This […]
