A free 10-lesson email course from The Makeup Refinery
Makeup School Teaches You How to Do Makeup. This Course Teaches You the Rest.
Movie Makeup 101 is a free, 10-lesson email course for aspiring film and TV makeup artists - covering the skills, habits, and realities that formal training almost always leaves out.
There's no shortage of courses that teach you how to contour, blend, and apply.
Most of them do that part fine.
What they tend to skip is everything else. The parts of the job that actually determine whether you thrive on a film set or spend your first year quietly white-knuckling it and hoping nobody notices.
That's what these 10 lessons are for.
Across 10 lessons (one per day, 100% free, no catch), you'll learn:
- Why being technically skilled at makeup is only part of what a film set actually needs from you - and what the other part looks like in practice
- The communication skills most makeup schools skip (and what it costs the artists who figure this out late, the hard way)
- A time-management technique developed by a Hollywood legend that working professionals, including me, still use every single day
- What continuity really means on a real set, why it matters more than you'd expect, and how to get genuinely good at it before you've ever been hired
- The mindset that separates artists who get called back from artists who don't (and it has nothing to do with talent)
This course is for you if:
✓ You've trained in makeup but still feel a bit hazy on what the actual job of a film makeup artist involves
✓ You want to walk into your first set experience prepared (not just smiling and hoping for the best)
✓ You've wondered whether the non-makeup parts of this career - the pace, the pressure, the people - are something you can actually handle
✓ You're an introvert who loves the craft but isn't sure how to show up professionally in a room full of people (hi, same)
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Kerrin is a 4x Emmy-nominated makeup artist with over 30 years on film and TV sets, specializing in SFX, prosthetics, and character makeup. She built this course around everything she had to figure out the hard way. You don't have to.
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From 4x Emmy-nominated makeup artist Kerrin Jackson. No pitch. No pressure. Unsubscribe anytime.