It is quick, easy and cheap to learn makeup using beauty blogs, but such an alma mater will not give professional skills. We will tell you where to study make-up in St. Petersburg - make-up schools that will teach you how to do master strobing, highlighting and baking for yourself and others.
Olya Petrova. Make up school
Tuition fee: from 5,000 to 37,000 rubles
The makeup artists who most often paint the Sobaka.ru cover heroes - Evgenia Somova, Olga Vasilyeva and Alisa Yaroslavtseva - studied at Olga Petrova's makeup school. Known for her work for Vogue, Allure and Vanity Fair, she founded her own beauty academy in 2012. Since then, the beauty coach has been teaching girls and boys in four directions: "Basic and fashion make-up", "Make-up for oneself", "Beauty-intensive" and "Pro Brow" for potential eyebrows. The longest course - for beginners - lasts 11 lessons, during which Olga and her assistants talk about face sculpting, the principles of easy correction, the basics of color, the psychology of working with a client and the peculiarities of age make-up. At the end of the program, the participants collect portfolios, consolidate the material in a “question-answer” format and practice their skills on professional photography. At the same time, training takes place in three different formats: evening (from 19:00 on weekdays), daytime (from 11:00 to 15:00 on weekdays) or intensive (twice a day with a break, five days in a row).
Academy "May"
Tuition fee: from 7,000 to 43,000 rubles
The St. Petersburg branch of the international beauty school Pivot Point was opened in 1997, and since 2000 began to train makeup artists. In addition to the basic cycle and advanced training courses, the May Academy teaches lamination of eyebrows and eyelashes, visual rejuvenation makeup and wedding make-up, the latter being offered as part of a complex makeup artist-stylist program. The teachers recommend taking the entire wedding direction, especially since the master class on hairstyles at the academy is conducted by the European champion Branko Trichkovich. Before registering and paying for the course, you can virtually walk through the classrooms, come on an excursion and look at the educational process. The organizers admit that in St. Petersburg you can find cheaper and shorter courses, but they warn that real knowledge is not given everywhere.
Tabu Makeup School
Tuition fee: from 7,000 to 38,000 rubles
The name of this four-year-old brainchild combines a taboo on simple makeup and the name of the school's founder, Varvara Tabutarova. She wins an unofficial victory in the reviews on the Internet (in particular, in the "Cynical Makeup Artist" group): not a single beauty coach of St. Petersburg has received so many replays and advice "to go only to her" for the acquired professionalism. Varvara teaches how to do basic and advanced make-up, draw on the face of a clown from "It" for Halloween, and also dance with beautiful and architectural eyebrows - the brow course, according to the girl, is gaining the most participants. In general, Tabu Makeup School tries not to take more than five people into groups in order to provide each one with individual support and assistance. It continues even after the end of the course: teachers create a chat where graduates share their work and receive answers to thematic questions.
Facetime
Tuition fee: from 4,500 to 59,000 rubles
Soul-looking smoky, graphic straight arrows and appliqués on the face like the Moschino show - all this is taught in FaceTime, founded by Sofia Baburina. In addition to the classical group programs of the first and second levels, the school offers four-hour one-to-one lessons. They are for practicing makeup artists who are provided with cosmetics, models, a downtown workplace and a training certificate. In one lesson, costing 8 thousand rubles, Sophia and her colleagues work on one specific topic, while the price for each new master class decreases.
First Makeup School
Tuition fee: from 10,000 to 40,000 rubles
The founder of First Makeup School Tatyana Tutova promotes international make-up-exchange: not only people from all over Russia, but also from other countries come to Bolshaya Pushkarskaya to her, and she herself makes an annual pilgrimage to New York, from where she brings new techniques. The girl takes with her all willing studio graduates who have already been baptized with brushes and sponges. Prior to that, First Makeup School offers three options for courses: classic basic, where for two weeks teaches pencil technique, face shape correction, wedding makeup and imitation of burns, scars and abrasions (for Halloween or boyfriend intimidation); promotion in working with creamy textures, as well as an advanced program for the masters. After the beauty excursion, students can come to free practice sessions, which, according to Tatiana, help to try out new products and adjust their work.
School of Maria Kalashnikova
Tuition fee: from 12,000 to 32,000 rubles
The beauty industry in numbers: 15,000 unique images, 3,000 issued certificates and 8 years of successful work - all this is about the school of Maria Kalashnikova, which paints a good half of the domestic show business. Make-up studio offers three levels of training: basic, advanced and "make-up artist himself", each of which lasts from 4 to 10 sessions. Students are offered to put their hand on professional cosmetics - M. A. C., Bobby Brown, Urban Decay, Benefit, Sefora and Make up Forever, which is used by all makeup mastodons - from Pat Magrat to Peter Philips. After upgrading their skills, graduates get employment: first, they are invited to practice in large photo studios in the city, and the best are hired in commercial projects.
St. Petersburg beauty school
Tuition fees: from 1900 to 30 100 rubles, including discounts
The advantage of this training center is that it offers not only comprehensive classes, but also separate ones, for each type of make-up - pencil, wedding, face painting and even theatrical special effects. There are permanent discounts on the courses, so even a fan of free Youtube manuals can afford them. Make-up artists Anna Moskvitina, Olga Romanova and Karina Tretyakova promise to teach you how to cut, twist and tie your face into a knot no worse than make-up artist Ines Kus from Croatia - in just 24 academic hours.
Backstage Makeup and Hairstyle School
Tuition fees: from 12,000 to 42,000 rubles, including discounts
The founder of the Backstage school, Irina Mikhailovskaya, teaches makeup through video clips (free) and in person (from 25,000 rubles). Training in the areas of "make-up artist", "make-up artist-stylist" and "professional make-up for yourself" takes place in groups of three to six people, as well as in the framework of individual lessons. The program does not change depending on the number of people: for example, in the course of basic make-up, Irina introduces the anatomy of the face, the smokey eyes technique, Dior's arrows, the history of fashionable make-up and the stylization of retro bows. And the self-make-up course comes with a shopping support - the head of the school will personally walk with you through the nearby beauty boutiques and show you which products are worth and should not be added to your cosmetic bag.
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