Tips & Insights for Aspiring Makeup Artists

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How To Balance Life And School

Taking the plunge into beauty school can be a thrilling experience, yet it may also be intimidating. Trying to balance life and beauty school may seem impossible at times, especially if you don’t have the right guidance. With our help, you can learn how to manage your time wisely while still having fun. We’ve put…

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MUA SPOTLIGHT: MONIKA BLUNDER

Before she created beautiful makeup looks for Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Alba, Amanda Seyfried, and more, Monika Blunder grew up nurturing a love for art and film. Blunder was born and raised in Kufstein, Austria. Her brother was a camera assistant on film sets in Munich, Germany. She would often visit him while on set. Through…

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Splurge vs. Save: A guide to which beauty products are worth their hefty price tag.

From the Kardashians and Jenners to Kat Von D, celebrities are becoming beauty moguls and selling hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of makeup yearly. When it comes to these celebrities, who are very fashion forward but know little about makeup, are consumers spending their money on all the wrong products?There have been hundreds of…

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5 TIMES COLOR THEORY COULD SAVE YOUR BUM

Are you an artist who knows color theory is important, but really just uses it in the most rudimentary of ways — the occasional dark circle or red blemish — or are you a color theory master who relies on this skill to triumph over a host of makeup-related hurdles like bruises, challenging undertones, and…