Getting Hired For Makeup Artist Jobs

The title refers to makeup artist jobs, but the truth is, if you're trying to make it in any line of work where people are going to be trusting you as an artist and as a craftsman, the tips you'll find here will help.

They say that it's all about who you know, but the thing is... This is the age of the internet. If you want to contact Greg Nicotero, you can find him online and send him an email... He might not respond, but the point is, it's a small world, and the web makes it even smaller. Sooner or later, you'll bump into someone, online or off, that can give you the opportunity you need.

But you need the skills, you need to be able to actually make something of that opportunity when it comes, because there are no hand outs in a business where a single project costs tens of millions of dollars, but there are hands up.

Know Your Stuff

You need to be, at the very least, the very best makeup artist you know, because the person who's going to give you your hand up is probably going to be someone inside your circle, and if your roommate does better makeup effects than you... It's obvious who he's going to ask to be the head makeup guy on his new independent film, and who's going to be the assistant. Be the best, and milk any extra skills you have be it pyrotechnics or stunt coordination or... Anything, really.

Favors Go Up The Ladder...

Favors don't come to you until you've done your fair share of them. For example, if you have a friend who's trying to become a director and he's just landed a few investors for his first feature, but it's not quite enough to pay anybody, just enough to rent a camera, get permits and finance the actual production costs... Go ahead and do it for free. For starters, you've got a cool feature with your name on it, and secondly, you've got a rising star who owes you a favor.

Make a Short

Make a short and focus on your makeup skills but... Don't just make it a tech demo. Give it a good story, do it right. If you have friends who can write, act or direct, have them help. Otherwise, learn how to do all that yourself, because no matter how good your makeup and effects, if the story sucks, then nobody's going to bother watching it all the way through.


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