What do you need to be a makeup artist?

First of all, as a professional makeup artist, it is very important to have a strong interest in this industry, so that you will have a strong curiosity to drive you to explore and create touching works. Have a pair of clean, gentle and flexible hands.

As a makeup artist, you should have extensive knowledge. Only with a deep understanding of life can we accumulate rich video materials. Life is the inexhaustible source of all arts. A makeup artist should have the following abilities.

(1) To have a good aesthetic ability, makeup modeling technology is a comprehensive art, and makeup artists must have a good aesthetic when completing makeup modeling. In order to make the designed cosmetics have certain appreciation value, makeup artists must improve their own aesthetic ability.

(2) To have profound observation ability, observation is a kind of practice, which makes investigation and research possible. Observation is the basis for people to know the objective world, and it is also a necessary means to accumulate life. The more life and experience you accumulate, the more creative freedom you gain. Makeup artists pay attention to people's appearance when observing, such as observing the artistic content contained in detailed physiological phenomena such as eyes, hairstyle, bone height, fat face and muscle expression, observing the influence of times, society and environment on people through appearance, and capturing lifestyle consultation.

(3) To have a keen sense of beauty, a makeup artist should have a keen sense of beautiful things and characters, and have a strong ability of thinking in images, so that it is possible to show the characters well and vividly, and to make his own makeup works infectious. Therefore, the best way to exercise your sensibility is to go to nature, to social life, to feel, to experience, to associate and to compare, so as to improve your sensitivity to good food.

(4) To have rich imagination, artistic thinking is thinking in images. Artists create according to their feelings, feelings and associations about objective things, and transform, combine, refine and reshape perceived things or images to become brand-new images. If you don't have a rich imagination, you will create colorful characters. It is very important to cultivate and exercise your imagination. Rich imagination is one of the important skills in creating cosmetic works, and imagination can be enhanced through a lot of accumulation and training in daily life.

(5) Skilled expressive ability A makeup artist's expressive ability is usually equal to his creative ability. It is to use the means and skills of makeup modeling to create a beautiful artistic image in practice according to the law of beauty. Expressiveness is based on aesthetic ability, observation ability, feeling ability and imagination ability, which requires makeup artists to have solid basic makeup skills.

National Professional Qualification Examination for Makeup Artists

Declaration conditions:

Junior makeup artist: (meet one of the following conditions)

(1) The primary formal training organized by labor or cultural and educational institutions has reached the standard hours and obtained the graduation (completion) certificate.

(2) Persons whose professional apprenticeships have expired.

Intermediate makeup artist: (meet one of the following conditions)

(1) Obtained graduation (completion) certificates of relevant majors in vocational schools, art colleges and general secondary specialized schools.

(two) after obtaining the primary vocational qualification certificate of this occupation, he has been engaged in this occupation for more than 2 years.

Senior makeup artist: (one of the following conditions)

(1) Having been engaged in this occupation for more than 5 years continuously after obtaining the intermediate vocational qualification certificate of this occupation.

(2) Obtaining a diploma from a vocational and technical college, an art college or an ordinary institution of higher learning.

(3) Having been engaged in this occupation for more than 0/2 years.

Examination method:

1, theoretical examination-closed book

2, the actual operation-make up as required.