Everyone will have different ways in which they acquired their talents, either getting early practice with mummys make up bag at the tender age of 4 or going to make up school? How did you learn?

It all began on a rainy saturday afternoon for me at the age of 15 with my sisters make up case...and i never looked back...of course ive graduated from Rimmel and Bourjois now onto finer things



in fact when i was younger i always wanted to be a make up artist...but alas fate got in the way

ive been doing makeup since i was 13. i just had the knack for it. i always did my friends makeup, and still do to this day.

13! I envy you! I started wearing makeup only when I was 25. No wonder I'm still such an idiot! Mainly I learn from forums like this. Did a personal makeup course before but didn't find it very useful

I really didn't wear makeup until my mid-20s. One of my closest friends and ex-roommates was a model and worked at MAC. She taught me everything. I'm still not as good as she is, but I now have more than 2 brown eyeshadows and a lipgloss.

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Beauty Brief

I started when I was in 4th grade :| I got a hold of my mom's Covergirl brown-tri e/s thingie & had some clinique lipstick somehow...I wasn't ALLOWED to wear it to school but I did anyways.

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she likes to pose and wants to be in Glamour
her boyfriend doesn't understand; he tells her to go a little slower.
but this is a fast paced world and you gotta keep moving.
she's doing all she can; whether you see it or not, she's improving.
she'll never stop, she'll never stop, you can't make her stop.
one day you'll look up at the stage and she'll be on the backdrop.

Been playing with it for years but attended the M·A·C Professional Makeup Artistry course in London earlier this year.

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Sarah W - Flying M·A·Caholic

I didnt wear any makeup until earlier this year... I did a little in high school but that was mostly just lipstick and stuff... So i pretty much learned everything I know from here and from anything any MAC MAs taught me when I went.

I've always loved make up but never thought if it as fun or a career until I started working for Clinique and discovered MAC. :-P

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"It's pure fun to let go and play with makeup."
`Pat McGrath - Allure Magazine November 2007

i didn't start going hard with Makeup till this year amazingly enough! i learnt all my skills from the MA's at MAC, books and of course from this wonderful site here! i wish i started eariler! THe beauty of Makeup is so specail!

that was 17 years ago lol. crazy when i think about it!! i was allowed to wear makeup at 13, when alot of my friends couldn't. prob cause my mom loved makeup as well.

I guess I'd consider myself to be "self-taught". I played around with makeup through middle and high school, but didn't get really into it until I started college and got a job (and could afford nicer makeup and real brushes ). I basically learned by reading magazines, books, and looking online (here, LJ) and trying to imitate what I saw.

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"There is an art, or rather, a knack, to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

- Douglas Adams, RIP

Observation and study. I started wearing makeup at about 20. I have read books by the likes of Sam Fine, Tyra Banks, Kevyn Aucoin and others. I try to ask a lot of questions when I'm at a counter and watch what they are doing - the tools they use, the colors, where they put them. And I just practice. Practice, practice, practice. I think that's the only way to get to know your face and know what looks good on you and what you like.

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C.O.L.O.U.R.S.

"Cool Outrageous Lovers of Uniquely Raw Styyyyyyle"

ooh what books? ive come across the aucoin ones, are tyra banks ones any good?

I did nothing! I started to play with makeup when I was 12-13 years old...

Don't be afraid to try new things, that's how I learned!

I literally learnt in the last year and a half, by looking at lots of fotd, asking a kazillion questions and reading reviews like there's no tomorrow. Because I like to try and do all the things I do well, at first it would take aaaaaaaaages to get certain makeup aspects done, but it's really just experimentation, interest and lucky enough to have an artist significant other who gives me excellent feedback.

I have flipped through 2 of Kevyn Aucoin's books, can't remember which one it was, but one of them is super-helpful for basics.

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Snark, snark... & ass'd oddities

Just playing around with my grandma's makeup. That is where it all began. As far as learning how to apply I read tons of books, look at online pics and asked questions. The rest came from practice.