PROGRAM
duration: 99 min.

11:33 min                                                                 WELCOME + INTENTION
12:45 min.                                                    Guests Introduce Themselves
14:40 min.                              What Will Be Covered In This Workshop?
19:30 min.                                                   What Are The 3 SUCCESS Tips?
25:54 min.                                                Break for technical  adjustment
32:48 min.                                                           MAKEUP ODYSSEY [VIDEO]
35:16 min.                              Why Do You Want To Be A Makeup Artist?
56:20 min.                                                                   Akua's Career Journey
1:05:10 min.                                                             Akua's Transformations
1:14:41 min.                            Akua's Career BLUEPRINT + FORMULA
1:47:55 min.     The Most Expensive Mistakes Makeup Artists Make
2:06:54 min.                                     YOU IN THE BUSINESS [EXERCISE]
2:43:40 min.                                                        Q & A: "Ask Me Anything"
2:46:08 min.        What is The PRO MakeUP Artist Training Program?
3:10:36 min.                                                                      END OF WORKSHOP

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN APPLYING MAKEUP IS VERY HELPFUL BUT NOT REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM.

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TAUGHT BY MASTER ARTIST 
AKUA AUSET 

akua-auset.com

Noted celebrity makeup artist and author, Akua Auset (Ah-koo-wa Ah-set), has groomed and transformed faces for hundreds of TV, film, music video and magazine projects. Part artist, part healer, Akua has been a fairy-god-sister to luminaries for almost twenty years. Akua, often a celebrity special request, has worked on projects coast-to-coast with a 100 + celebrities & personalities including: Michael Jordan, Jill Scott, India.Arie, Vivica A. Fox, Brad Pitt, Laila Ali, Blair Underwood, Natalie Cole, Pam Grier, Cheryl Tiegs, R. Kelly, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Kid Rock, 50 Cent and Mos Def. Her credits include work with  70+ corporations & companies, 50+ film, video & TV directors, 12+ magazines, photographers, TV shows, music videos and three major motion pictures, specializing in a term she has coined "the healing beauty arts."  


Akua will debut her first collection of holistic cosmetics Fall of 2015.     

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Twelve-Course Certification Training*
*SINGLE CLASS OPTIONS AVAILABLE

SATURDAYS 11 AM to 3 PM

SESSION 1 - TOPIC: What Are You Workin’ With & The Possibilities
We’ll take a historic look at the origins of makeup. Looking into the career options of working in makeup artistry. You will get a critique of your work & a career strategy session.*


* by individual appointment


SESSION 2 - TOPIC: The Artists’ Studio
The best makeup artists are painters. We will learn fundamentals of color and the properties of light, color, color mixing and creating beautiful color palettes.

SESSION 3 - TOPIC: Back In The Studio Pt. I
The skill of sculpting the face is a clear knowledge of utilizing line, shape, value, contrast, form, shading, optical illusion, composition, proportion, focal points, weight, texture and brushwork to get your desired look.


SESSION 4 - TOPIC: Back In The Studio Pt. II
We continue our journey into exploring a painter’s tools and techniques .


SESSION 5 - TOPIC: Art To Face Pt. I
Transferring our painterly way to the human face, we embark on a study of human faces, the properties of the mediums of makeup, experimenting with application and approach of balancing the face, blending, and brushwork.


SESSION 6 - TOPIC: Art To Face Pt. II
With a focus on eyes, we continue to translate painterly techniques to the face and experiment with the properties of the mediums of makeup.


SESSION 7 - TOPIC: Art To Face Pt. III
With a focus on lips, we continue our journey of painting the face. This session includes an airbrush makeup demo as well as using lighting as a makeup ally.



SESSION 8 - TOPIC: THE ODYSSEY Pt. I
A historical and cultural exploration of creativity & style of makeup as well as original approaches of interpreting the face.



SESSION 9 - TOPIC: THE ODYSSEY Pt. II
Continuing to move through history & cultures w explore creativity & style in makeup throughout history as well as original approaches of interpreting the face. By this session you are really beginning to hone, perfect and develop your own personal style.


SESSION 10 - TOPIC: SHOW & TELL
You will have an opportunity to present two looks on a model of your choice and share with your class participants.  Who Will Have The Most Imaginative & Flawless Face?


SESSION 11: TOPIC: Who Are You With?
We take a look at the principles of marketing, creating a marketing campaign, what tools you’ll need to reach your audience, clients, and creating relationships with the key players of your industry: the agents, photographers, directors, other makeup artists, etc


SESSION 12 - TOPIC: All About Business
Setting your rates, licenses, unions, good studio practices, job etiquette, YOUR look, and bookkeeping tips.


COMPLETION - FOLLOW-UP: How’s It Going?
A one-on-one follow-up on how you are integrating all of the elements for your career success.


WEEKLY IN-STUDIO LAB
Participants will spend a two-hour weekly session in our studio implementing that week’s topic on the public.
 

CLASS SITE: 
TBD as well as an online component.

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"Show Me Whatcha' Got!" 
Makeup Artist Critique + Career Mapping
Value: 999.95    Session: 199.95

Akua Gives You A Professional Critique + Your Career Mapping Session


To Book Session COMPLETE the Application Below


Mastering Your Face: One-on-One Critique & Lesson  
Value:  499.95    Session 299.95
 
Akua Teaches You How-To Master Your Own Face beginning with a Critique  and a comprehensive lesson. 

The Twelve-Course Certification Training Program 
is presented in four (4) parts:

1
O V E R V I E W   &   P O S S I B I L I T I E S

Part I:  "So You Wanna Be A Makeup Artist?"  Introduction Workshop

Part II: "Show Me Whatcha' Got! Critique," Career Mapping & Lesson



2  
T E C H N I Q U E S  &  H O W – T O

Part I: The Art & Your Tool Kit 

Part II: Art to Face



3 
M A R K E T I N G

  Who Are You With?



4
B U S I N E S S

Part I: ALL ABOUT BUSINESS: Your Rates, Bookkeeping and Other Icky Subjects 
Part II: FOLLOW - UP: How's It Going?


A private independent certificate program, this course is designed to be an in-depth study of:


1. THE INDUSTRY: 
career options of working in makeup artistry. 


2.THE ART: 
fundamentals and properties of light, color, color mixing, line, shape, value, contrast, form, shading, optical illusion, composition, proportion, focal points, weight, texture and brushwork.


3. THE FACE: 
the human face, properties of the mediums of makeup, creating palettes, experimentation with application and approach, blending, brushwork, techniques and airbrush makeup.


4. THE ODYSSEY: 
exploration of creativity & style of makeup throughout history as well as original approaches of interpreting the face.


5. MARKETING: 
principles, campaign, tools, relationships, etc.


6. BUSINESS: 
best studio practices & etiquette, YOUR look, setting rates, licenses, unions, etc.  Learn and develop your skills as a creative artist and prepare for the demands of  a next-level career in makeup artistry. You will create a professional makeup artist’s kit, get a critique of your work, a career strategy session, access to makeup  discounts, photo shoots featuring your work, apprentice and internship opportunities.

confidence

This is the training I wish I would have had when I was just starting out. Confidence is everything when you're standing in front of a new client with a clean face. From this moment on, you don't have to figure it out.  


- Akua Auset, Instructor & Master Artist

REGISTRATION & TUITION
$250 per session**  or   
$2800* 12 sessions ($234 per session) $200 SAVINGS! 

*$100 materials fee included
**materials included

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Your space in a class cannot be confirmed until payment is received or payment arrangements are made. Advanced registration is strongly recommended. There is limited space available.


PAYMENT PLANS
Payment plans are available, but must be arranged with the Registration Manager upon registration. A $100 processing fee will apply. Any late payments will accrue an additional $25 fee each month.



REFUNDS
If METAMOORPHOSE cancels or changes the scheduled time of a session, thus preventing a student from attending, METAMOORPHOSE will issue a full refund to the student. Tuition refund payments will be processed and mailed to the student within three weeks from the date of cancellation or change. If a student withdraws from the session/program there is no tuition refund. Cancellations or NO-SHOWS are non-refundable and the full tuition will be charged.




USE OF IMAGES
METAMOORPHOSE occasionally films and takes photographs of students, master artists, and/or their artwork for use in print, and electronic publication, and for archival purposes. If you have any questions about this practice or the use of your photographs, please contact the Registration Manager.

follow-through


"It's ordinary to give into resistance, obstacles, discomfort, inconvenience. ...taking a risk when you don't know. But sometimes if you go beyond to the other side of the unknown you will find magic and possibility."   

- Akua Auset, Instructor & Master Artist