Learn professional hygiene standards while mastering skin analysis, undertones, correcting, and custom foundation matching for flawless, seamless skin.
Create polished, long-wear soft glam looks for events while learning professional client consultation, eye shaping, strip lashes, and photo-ready techniques.
Master flawless, all-day bridal skin while learning the foundations of bridal consultations, trials, contracts, and wedding-day workflow.
Refine full bridal makeup application with customized individual lashes while building a professional, efficient bridal kit.
Perfect sharp winged liner and sculpted red lips using precision mapping, symmetry, and long-wear techniques for high-impact beauty looks.
Develop a strong understanding of color theory, undertones, and color mixing to confidently customize shades for any skin tone or creative look.
Learn advanced contouring, facial proportions, and brow design to enhance features with balance, structure, and intention.
Discover luxury makeup techniques, celebrity etiquette, and strategies for attracting and working with high-end clientele.
Learn modern South Asian bridal makeup techniques focusing on vibrant color, defined eyes, radiant skin, and long-wear performance.
Create high-impact halo eyes and glossy wet-look finishes using advanced techniques for editorial and glam beauty.
Explore global makeup trends and learn how to adapt international styles and techniques to elevate your creative versatility.
Develop high-fashion editorial looks by translating creative concepts into bold makeup designed specifically for camera and close-up beauty.
Master the art of natural, radiant skin with bronzy highlights and subtle “makeup-free” techniques that enhance features while keeping a fresh, luminous look.
Learn how to plan, prepare, and execute a makeup look for a professional photoshoot while understanding on-set workflow and etiquette.
Enhance mature skin using advanced techniques and airbrushing to create a flawless, natural, dimensional finish.
Master bold, editorial graphic liners with precision, symmetry, and clean execution for creative, high-impact looks.
Learn how to translate moodboards into cohesive makeup narratives that align with fashion and editorial concepts.
Create runway-ready skin and high-fashion makeup with a focus on conceptual storytelling and catwalk performance.
Build the foundation of a successful makeup business, covering contracts, branding, pricing, social media, and career strategy.
Learn the basics of hairstyling. As a makeup artist learning these techniques increases your chances of getting booked.
Learn to create realistic bruises, cuts, and scars using alcohol palettes, cream bruise wheels, and 3rd-degree techniques.
Master burn effects, including sunburn, with liquid latex and color techniques, and learn professional blocked brow application using prosaide, paint, and powder.
Create realistic aging effects with paint, powder, and latex, and apply Tinsley transfers for quick, professional temporary tattoos. Tattoo covering.
Watch a full prosthetic demo and practice applying small prosthetics like cuts or bullet wounds on each other under guided supervision.
Design and execute a complete prosthetic character look, combining all SFX techniques learned.
Learn natural, invisible makeup techniques for men, including skin balancing, facial hair work, HD camera correction, and on-camera longevity.
Learn how to safely apply and secure editorial appliqués—such as rhinestones, gold leaf, pearls, and mixed materials—to create high-impact editorial and avant-garde makeup looks.
Learn how to film step-by-step makeup tutorials using your phone, professional lighting, framing, and simple editing tools to create polished, platform-ready content.
Learn how to develop, produce, brand, and launch your own makeup line by turning a creative idea into a market-ready beauty product.
Students participate in a real beauty campaign for NYMUA Cosmetics, working with professional models and creative direction, culminating in their work being featured on a Times Square billboard—an unmatched first client experience.
Creating a set bag and doing touch ups on set.
Learn historically inspired makeup from different eras, focusing on skin, structure, and subtle details that reflect time-accurate beauty.
Learn professional techniques for applying bald caps, wigs, and facial hair, focusing on realistic blending, secure application, and camera-ready finishes for film and character work.
Learn how to professionally conceal tattoos for film, fashion, and events, and apply realistic temporary tattoos using skin-matching, layering, and long-wear techniques.
Learn professional body painting techniques, using color, shading, and texture to transform the body into a canvas for creative, editorial, and avant-garde looks.
Learn how to precisely recreate any makeup look from a reference image, mastering replication, detail, and technical execution as a professional artist, a skill as important as creativity for any pro MUA.
Learn advanced face-lifting techniques with tape, contour, eyeshadow placement, and lash application to create a camera-ready, high-impact glam look.
Celebrate your graduation in Times Square and see your work featured on a real NYMUA campaign billboard—a first client, real-set experience brought to life.
All classes cover hygienic practices for safe and sanitary application on clients.
Schedule/Dates
2026 Dates
2026 Dates
2026 Dates
Kits
If enrolling into the program you will receive a kit and brushes worth up to the value of $1,500. This a full kit to start your career with as a makeup artist. We are one of the only Academy’s in the US to have a kit sponsored with very high end products including MAC Products.
Kit includes:
Makeup Discounts
One of the benefits of becoming a professional makeup artist and training with us is receiving your PRO DISCOUNT CARD. Once you graduate the Academy you are able to receive discounts and membership on all makeup brands. As your journey begins as a makeup artist and you start your career adding/replacing products can become expensive so having these discounts helps you to save money. Some of the brands you can enjoy discounts with are MAC, Makeup Forever, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Charlotte Tilbury, Face Atelier, Nigel Beauty Emporium, Frends, Alcone, Danessa Myricks, Temptu, NYX and Crown and many more. Enjoy up to 40% off. We will guide you to get these discounts on your program.
We also offer student/graduate days and aftercare learning programs with a lot of the brands so you can have extra lessons in store.
You will receive a kit and brushes worth up to the value of $1,000. This a full kit to start your career with as a makeup artist. We are one of the only Academy’s in the US to have a kit sponsored with very high end products including MAC Products. .
Portfolio Shoot
All students receive an exciting opportunity to have a Portfolio Shoot on all of our programs. You will learn how to work behind the scenes as a makeup artist with one of our inhouse photographers. You will be creating a set of professional photos of your finished makeup looks putting your skills to use from everything you have learnt on the programs. You can use the photos to show new and up and coming clients for your social media/ website etc. Having a portfolio of images will increase your chances of getting booked as a makeup artist.
