Like Papparaziboy said you don't need a cosmo license to work as a mua. Now eventually it may help you get jobs as some photographers consitently ask me if I do hair and makeup. I didn't originally train at a cosmo school, two reason: 1. they focus only I believe 200 hours or so on mu. If thats my eventually goal I don't really want to sit through 1300 hours of something else. Granted you could totally benefit from the sanitation classes. 2. I figured id drop out because it was totally focused on my craft.Check out Cosmix makeup school in Fort Lauderdale. They are pretty awesome and offer a skin care license which as far as I know is now required for makeup artist in Fl, now I could be wrong, but this is based off an email I received from the school in the summer.Totally practice! Schooling will do nothing if you technique isn't up to par. Participate in FOTD here so you can stretch your creativity and receive gentle feed back.Enjoy!