BEAUTY
Welcome to the first step in your career as a professional makeup artist!
Southwest Makeup Institute’s immersive PRO Beauty MUA training focuses on the fundamentals of beauty makeup — making it ideal for new or somewhat experienced artists looking to specialize in the beauty, bridal, or fashion industries.
This 100 hour course serves as a prerequisite for our Film and Master courses as well - this is where your education journey begins!
SUPPORT NETWORK
Students of the Beauty training program have the opportunity to learn from guest speakers, highly trained professionals, and gain real-world application experience shadowing for fashion shows, editorial shoots, wedding expos, bridal parties, and more.
As an individual creative, building a client base and stellar reputation while trying to launch your career is a lot to manage - that’s why we set our students up with those tools for success before they graduate.
TOTAL IMMERSION
This 6-week comprehensive makeup artistry training covers everything from color theory, to application and sanitation, skin tone fundamentals, editorial application, proper tool use, and learning how to work from an artist’s perspective.
Outside of building the necessary skillset to practice as an MUA, this course dives into interpersonal skills as well, like: learning the industry standards and ethics necessary to succeed in these competitive spaces, developing your personal creativity, and establishing your style as an artist.
CREATIVE OPTIONS
Get a leg up - only students of SWMUI’s Beauty course are prepped for immediate practice as a professional MUA upon graduating. Students have the option of joining the beauty and/or bridal industries after certification, or continuing their education with our Film and Master programs.
The Beauty course serves as a prerequisite for the Film course, so graduates of the Beauty program can continue evolving and growing their practice while also expanding their client base by joining the film industry.
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1 hour of theory followed by demos, industry guest speakers, and immersive hands-on training and assignments.
Students replicate each look following instructor demos on each other during class time.
Sunday classes, referred to as “Clinic Days”, are studio time dedicated to hands-on practice.
It’s during this time that students are evaluated and graded by their instructors based on application ability, professionalism, brush use, product choice, workstation cleanliness, sanitation, and more. This ensures continuous improvement by gaining confidence in their skillset.
We take pride in teaching exactly what it takes to succeed as a Professional Makeup Artist in a practical work setting!
6 WEEK OVERVIEW
1. Makeup History & Fundamental Theory
2. The Professional Artist’s Kit
3. Tool Kit + Brush Basics
4. Sanitation & Sterilization of Implements
5. Skin Prep
6. Intro to Industry Expectations & Ethics
7. Facial Anatomy & Bone Structure Mapping
8. Visual Color and Developing an Artist’s Eye - “Color Matching”
9. Intro to Beauty Makeup Application
10. Brows/Lips/Cheeks and finishing touches (Different shapes & Techniques)
11. Intro to Color Theory and Color Application
12. Bridal + Makeup for Weddings; Creating Looks for All Ages
13. Editorial & Makeup for Publication
14. Advanced Industry Expectations & Ethics
15. Intro to Mixing Mediums & Mixed Media Makeup
PLUS Shadowing Hours:
31 hours of job training experience with working makeup artists (too see a list of partnered vendors, click HERE.)
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Southwest Makeup Institute Beauty Certification: $2,900 + Tax.
* A minimum deposit of $500.00 + Tax is required to be paid in order to reserve your space in class.
* Your remaining balance must be paid by the first night of classes. A student account can be made prior to starting class, and payments can be made on the account in any amount at any time leading up to the start of the course.
* We do not offer financing options or financial aid at this time.
*Save 10% off by registering for all 3 programs: Beauty, Film, & Master! (Full balance for all 3 courses is required to be paid in full by the student’s first night of classes)
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Night Schedule:
6 weeks
Tuesday: 5:30-8:30pm
Thursday: 5:30-8:30pm
Sunday: 10:00am-2:00pm
Start dates:
1/30/24
6/4/24
9/10/24
Day Schedule:
3 weeks
Tuesday-Friday
10:00am - 4:30pm
Start dates:
3/12/24
5/21/24
11/12/24
**This course is taught by working PRO makeup artists - Classes are capped at 8 students per cycle.
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STUDENTS UNDER 18 MAY BE ACCEPTED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS* Please shoot us an email for more information!
Our Student Kits
contain luxury PRO products and tools only and feature some of the top brands in the industry including: Make Up For Ever, Viseart, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Kett Cosmetics, Esum, 3rd Degree Silicone Simulation, Skin Illustrator, and more! To see a complete itemized kit list, please contact us.
Southwest Makeup Institute is an exempt private institution under the New Mexico Higher Education Department
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