Beauty Pageants

There are many pageants held each year on a local and national level. You can start at the local level by contacting the chamber of commerce and getting names of pageant directors. Then you can volunteer your services. They love this offer because it makes their pageant more professional to have you on board. After you gain experience, you can approach the next level for a paid makeup artist job, and you’ll gain a lot of recognition and new clients.

In the pageants, you can really only help the contestants with touching up their make up. There is just not enough time to give individual attention to contestants and to do their makeup from scratch. You want to make them look as good as you possibly can in the short time available. The contestants and parents are so very grateful that you are there to assist them. It helps everyone feel more comfortable and secure about their looks and, of course, it doesn’t hurt you to have all those people in the pageant telling others about the wonderful makeup artists that was there when they needed it.

In addition to the publicity, pageants are really fun to do. You get to know many of the girls and you get a lot of satisfaction knowing you were part of the program. It is especially gratifying if you happen to work with a winning contestant, knowing you played a part in making them look as good as possible. You will also learn about different kinds of stage lighting and the effect it has on makeup.