The most common question asked to us is, What are the career options after the completion of a professional makeup course? Will we get the placement from the academy? Or how will we get the job after the course. We can completely understand the confusion as every student wants to know whether makeup is the career option that they should invest their money, time and efforts in. That’s the reason we decided to clear out all your confusion by listing few of the career option as a makeup option
Makeup Trainee –
So as a Makeup trainee you will gain a lot of knowledge and experience. If you willing work as a freelance makeup artist or if you want to be a part of a well known - like Bombay school of makeup & hair, then you should start your career as a Makeup Trainee. Here you will work with experienced makeup artists who have been working in this industry for a long time and you will train under them. This will help you immensely to understand how a business functions, how much time and energy is required to run it by enhancing your skills. You will also get a chance to work on multiple clients or celebrities by experimenting with a variety of looks or even you can simply assist the head. This will help you build your own network and client database. Once your training period is over which is usually for 6 months to 1 year depends but after completion you can also choose to work with the same artist on a permanent position or you can switch.
Bridal Makeup Artist –
Bridal Makeup Artist is the most important and demanded person in this era of the wedding season. Nowadays brides first book the bridal makeup artist before choosing their wedding outfits. A bridal makeup artist is also a freelance makeup artist who only does bridal makeup. As a Bridal makeup artist when you get the order of a particular wedding you get the order of all the functions like haldi, sangeet, cocktail, engagement, mehendi and pre- wedding. Pre- wedding is the new and start of the wedding functions. A bridal makeup artist does all these looks and maybe even siders. Siders include the family members like mother, sisters, etc. Currently,this is a very profitable career option. The wedding season starts from November till March and being a bridal makeup artist you need to cover all the work during the peak of this wedding season. Also, it includes traveling in early mornings as well as different places since you want to complete as much work as possible during the wedding season. As a professional bridal makeup artist you need to sacrifice or postpone your own personal functions or commitments as bookings happen quite in advance. So, you can opt for this career.
Freelance Makeup Artist -
After getting certified from a professional makeup course, Freelancing is the most common career option you can go for. Here you don't have to work under anyone. just you should have your make up kit and also have to build your good creative portfolio on social media to attract and get organic clients. Freelancing creates lots of opportunities for you. In this you have to do everything by your own i.e.strategies, marketing, accounting and finances. So it is totally upon you.
Salon Makeup Artist –
If you want to work from time to time for e.g. 9-6 then yes, it is possible in this glamorous makeup industry too! After completing our professional makeup course, many students go for salon careers. There are several salon makeup artists who work only in the salon for parties, bridal and even everyday looks. Since a salon’s work timings are always fixed, so are yours but occasionally you might have to work at odd hours too, especially during the wedding season but most of the time your working hours will be fixed. This will be great for people who don’t want to invest in their own business but yet want a fixed monthly salary.
Fashion Makeup –
Fashion makeup this type of makeup is fully different from your everyday and bridal makeup looks. That is why we have built a Fashion makeup section separately in our Professional makeup artist courses. This section includes high fashion looks and how to develop your skills for this. It is most difficult to find your accurate spot as a runaway makeup artist immediately after you graduate as a professional makeup artist.So to gain the experience and enhance your skill you should join the agencies or makeup studios which get hired for fashion weeks and shows which will also clear your confusions. Here, you can also work for multiple agencies on freelance models, so that you have a chance to work with different people.
Beauty Blogger –
This one is important! With the approach of social media, you can create your own career just by sitting at your home. It just needs only 4 things i.e. Good wifi, Knowledge of social media, interest in creating good and attractive content and videos. If you know this then for sure you can have a great career in makeup blogging or vlogging then. You can make short videos on how to create different makeup looks, also you can do product reviews and write a blog for them. This new beauty career has made many unknown bloggers and vloggers big star.
Stage and Theatre Makeup Artist -
Stage makeup is amplified makeup and you will be required to magnify the actor’s features so that face and facial features will be clearly visible to the audience even those who are seated in the back row. This again works in the same pattern like how runaway makeup agencies work. You will find your work in stage and theatre as a freelance makeup artist if you start your work from small plays. For this first you need to study and understand the stage and theatre well and you will learn this only in a professional makeup artist course. So, if you are planning to become Stage or Theatre makeup artist then opt for the course today.
Film and Television Makeup Artist -
This is very different from other career options that will put you on the set of films, television shows and commercials. Do remember that film and television doesn’t just mean celebrity makeup, it also means makeup for all side actors or even special effects makeup where you are required to do ageing makeup look on a young actor or a wound on body after an action sequence. Also, film and television makeup means that you are doing makeup for the camera so again you need to study and understand the subtle variation well and you will learn this only in a professional makeup artist course. So go for Professional makeup course.
We think this blog helped you to clear all your queries on your prospects in this field of makeup career. So, join the Professional makeup course today and opt for your favourite career choice in this makeup industry.
