Hello everyone
My job does all kinds of workshops and activities based on keeping people of all ages active and healthy. I had an idea of going to my boss and asking if theres a possibility I can start a makeup workshop. I plan to go to her with a full organized plan but I wanted to know if any of you had any suggestions for me doing a class. I was thinking in the beginning have women bring what they have so they can learn how to use them, and if this is successful later down the road I want to start supplying a few things. Any suggestions will help such as executing this plan and any tips.
Thanks
I'm not a makeup artist, but I did attend a series of workshops makeup artistry that ran at a local community centre near me a while ago and I thought it was very good. There were people of all ages and backgrounds - some who wanted to work in cosmetic retail, or who were thinking about becoming artists and were trying to decide if it was worthwhile to enrol in a full time course. There were also some people like me, who have a full time career in a different field, and just love makeup, or who just did it out of interest. (The centre also ran classes in things like cooking, art, etc).
The course I did supplied some very basic products that were available for everyone to use. For example there was a basic range of foundations that everyone could just decant from as needed. (These weren't handed out, I guess in case anything went missing - the tutor just dispensed everything as needed). They also supplied a list of recommended products for us to buy ourselves if we wished. A lot of people had never really used makeup that much before so we were given some guidance on where the best places to buy were too (not a problem for me though, hehe). Mainly it was things like, a basic brush set, or a basic eye palette. Generally they advised us to buy low cost brands (eg ELF) unless we were happy to spend more of course.
In terms of the course content, we started off with the basics, eg what does each product do, matching foundation, simple colour theory (warm vs cool), basic hygiene (eg how to clean brushes). After that we covered off a different topic in each workshop, such as a simple day look, smokey eye, bridal look, even some special effects (eg how to create scars & bruises). We were allowed to bring models, or could just practice on ourselves or each other if we wished. Usually we had about 20 mins of instruction or demo at the start, and then the rest of the session the tutor just wandered around and gave help as needed.
That was really about it. Personally I think as a course that was open to anyone it was very good - hopefully my description might help you!
