Self-Makeup for Beginners: What You Actually Learn in a Makeup Workshop

Beginners who want to do their own makeup properly, and anyone already comfortable who keeps getting stuck at the same step. You don't need any experience.

Some people come before a family wedding they want to get ready for themselves. Others just want an everyday look that doesn't take forty minutes. Both are a good fit.

Contouring, highlighting and eyeshadow blending are the core of the session, along with the reasoning behind each step, so you can repeat the look at home and not only in the class.

• Contouring and highlighting for your face shape
• Eyeshadow blending
• Why each step works, so you can adapt it
• What suits your features and skin type specifically

Too much product is the big one. Layer after layer of foundation, concealer and powder ends up looking cakey, and it's usually the first thing I correct.

• Too much product, which looks cakey instead of covering better
• Concealer that's too light, which turns grey. It should be one or two shades lighter than your foundation at most.
• Matching foundation on the wrist instead of the jaw
• Skipping skin prep, so nothing sits smoothly
• Brows drawn on too dark. Go one or two shades darker than your hair at most, then brush them through with a spoolie.
• Edges left unblended at the jaw, hairline and eyeshadow

When you see that less product, placed only where it's needed, covers better than more. That's the moment most people go quiet and look at the mirror again.

Once that clicks, everything else gets easier. You stop reaching for another layer and start asking where the product actually needs to go, which is the question a makeup artist asks too.

Because what works on someone with different eyes or a different undertone won't necessarily work on you. In the workshop you practise on your own face, and I teach everything against your own features and skin type.

Watching a tutorial shows you someone else's face. Doing it yourself, with me correcting your hand as you go, is what makes it stick when you're alone in front of your own mirror.

Not before you come. Ask when you book and I'll tell you what to bring. You also get product recommendations suited to your skin and your budget, so you stop buying things you never finish.

Each session is three hours, run one-on-one or as a small group with friends. A 50% advance confirms your place, by UPI or cash. It's non-refundable, but the date can be moved to another available slot.

Then the self-makeup workshop is the wrong fit. Read how to become a makeup artist in Pune about my professional makeup course.