Get Your First Gig
(Without Selling Your Soul or Makeup Kit)
$97.00
Makeup school taught you how to do the work. Nobody taught you how to get it.
Get Your First Gig is the missing chapter: how film and TV makeup departments actually hire, who to approach, what to say, and how to turn a polite "thanks for reaching out" into a call time.
It's built for you if you've just graduated, you have no credits yet, and your current career strategy is refreshing your inbox. (No judgement. We've all done it.)
What's inside Get Your First Gig:
✔ Who actually hires you, and how to find them. The exact framework for finding and approaching the right people. (Spoiler: it's usually not who new artists are messaging.)
✔ The outreach message that gets a reply. Most artists write about themselves. You'll learn to write the kind of message a HOD actually wants to answer, plus exactly what not to say, which is where almost everyone goes wrong.
✔ The exact words for your first message. A fill-in-the-blank outreach template you can personalize and send this week.
✔ What to say when a HOD replies. How to handle that first real conversation: the questions to ask, the ones to skip, and how to get from "thanks for reaching out" to "when can you start?"
✔ The kit conversation, sorted. What to say when they ask about your kit, and why your tools matter far more than your product stash. You don't need a kit the size of a small car. You need a confident, honest answer. I'll give you one.
✔ The follow-up most artists skip. It takes two minutes. Almost nobody does it. The ones who do, work.
Everything in Get Your First Gig comes from 30 years on film and TV sets. The HOD relationships, the outreach, the career navigation, the getting hired and rehired part.
It's not just theory.
And it's not advice from someone who has only read about it. The real mechanics, from someone who has lived them (mostly at 5am, mostly holding a cold bold coffee in one hand, a beloved brush in the other).
A quick note: because this is a digital course, all sales are final.
I'm confident it's the most useful career investment you'll make as a new film and TV makeup artist.
If you've got questions before you buy, DM me on Instagram @themakeuprefinery. I read them myself, and respond as soon as I can.
