[astronaut]

In my eyes, if you work for a brand like MAC, then you have to be a makeup artist to an extent due to the amount of skills and experience required for the job. But some other brands I don't know too much. I'd consider a person that works at MAC a MA whereas if it were a brand like Clinique or something, I'd refer to them as beauty advisors. When I worked at Macy's, I remember a lot of the females in cosmetics, most of them didn't know diddely squat about makeup. A lot of them didn't even wear makeup themselves! But that being said, I wouldn't say that EVERYONE that works for the other brands aren't artists because I remember a girl that worked for Lancome and was very involved in the makeup.