Inside Your Makeup Artistry Kit: What You’ll Need to Complete QC’s Master Makeup Artistry Course

Updated 2024

Key Points

Introduction

When you enroll in QC Makeup Academy’s Master Makeup Artistry Course, you’ll receive our exclusive Luminous Makeup Kit. This 8-piece makeup artistry kit contains professional-grade makeup tools and products to help you complete your assignments and thrive as you advance in your career.

That said, while this makeup kit comes with plenty of palettes, you’ll still need a few extra products in order to create all those beautiful looks for your course assignments.

So, what kind of products do you need for each unit of the course?

Read on to find out!

QC’s Master Makeup Artistry Course

As a student of the MMA certification program, your free makeup artistry kit from QC includes the following products:

1. 20-Shade Conceal & Correct Palette
2. 88-Shade Eye Shadow Palette
3. 32-Shade Lip Palette
4. 17-Piece Professional Brush Set
5. 28-Shade Blush Palette
6. 5-Shade Eyebrow Palette
7. 4-Shade Highlight Palette
8. 9-Shade Contour Palette

Important Things to Know in This Course

Unit A: Introductory Unit

Unit A Assignments

In addition to joining QC Makeup Academy’s Virtual Community on Facebook, there are 3 assignments in Unit A:

1. Introduce Yourself: Tell your tutor more about your personal and/or professional experience with makeup up to this point, as well as your career goals and the skills you hope to develop as an MUA.
2. Preparing for Makeup Application: Next, you will need to set up both your professional workspace/makeup station, as well as your makeup artistry kit. This assignment will require you to answer 4 questions regarding this.
3. Show Off Your Favorite Look: This is the first (and only) practical assignment in Unit A. You will be tasked with applying your own makeup and then providing photos of:
   1. Your full face;
   2. A close-up of your eyes (open);
   3. And a close-up of your eyes (closed).

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit A

Unit B: Flawless Complexion

Unit B Assignments

There are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment in Unit B:

1. Perfecting the Skin: You’ll take a before photo of the face without any product, and note any problem areas that may be present. You’ll then be tasked with using the required products to achieve a flawless complexion. Once the makeup has been applied, you’ll take/provide an after photo.
2. Blush, Highlight & Contour: The same concept and steps as stated above, except this time, you’ll be applying blush, highlight, and contour to the face.
3. Skill Test – Perfect Color Correction: Again, take a before photo of the face sans makeup. Identify the areas of discoloration you will be correcting. From there, using the color correcting techniques learned in Unit B, apply color corrector and conceal the areas of discoloration. Afterwards, take/provide an after photo.

Note: Though the third assignment is optional, we highly recommend completing it in order to get the most out of your training experience.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit B

Unit C: Eyes & Lips

Unit C Assignments

Again, there are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment:

1. Daytime Makeup: Take a before photo of a clean face without makeup. Next, create a daytime makeup look that follows the specifications outlined in the assignment. Once finished, take/provide an after photo.
2. Nighttime Application: The same concept and steps as Assignment 1, but with a nighttime makeup look instead of a daytime one.
3. Skill Test – Eyeliner: Here, you’ll show off your eyeliner skills by creating an eye look (with black liner) that you have lots of practice with OR challenging yourself by trying something new.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit C

Unit D: Makeup for Specific Clients

In Unit D, you’ll learn all about the best makeup to use on specific types of clientele (e.g., teenage clients, mature clients, pregnant clients, and male clients).

Unit D Assignments

Again, there are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment:

1. Special Considerations in Makeup: Select a model that comes with special considerations – such as choosing to work on a male model, for example. Take a before photo and identify any areas of concern. Next, complete a basic daytime application on your model, keeping in mind their special considerations. Once complete, take/provide an after photo.
2. Show Off Your Skills!: This assignment will be done on your face, much like Unit A, Assignment 3. Take a photo of your before face and identify any areas of concern. Next, complete a makeup look of your choosing – although make sure it meets the requirements outlined in the assignment. Once finished, take/provide an after photo.
3. Skill Test – False Eyelashes: This assignment can also be done on yourself, if preferred. Take a before photo of the eyes without any false lashes. After applying the false lashes, take/provide an after photo.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit D

Unit E: Bridal and Celebrity Duplication

Unit E Assignments

Again, there are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment:

1. A Natural Bride: Based on a specific scenario provided in the assignment outline, you’ll take a before photo of the face without makeup, create a natural bridal application, and then submit an after photo.
2. Celebrity Duplication: Choose a celebrity whose makeup inspires you. (You can challenge yourself here by selecting a celebrity you aren’t already familiar with.) Upload the inspo photo of your chosen celebrity – this pic should show the makeup look you intend to duplicate. Next, take a before photo of your model’s face without makeup. From there, replicate that celebrity look. Once finished, take/provide an after photo.
3. Skill Test – Complete a Trend! – Choose one of the three suggested makeup trends in your assignment outline. Once you’ve snapped a before pic, apply that trend to your model’s face and then take an after photo.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit E

For Unit E Assignments 1 and 2, there is no list of required products provided in the assignment. As such, use whatever products you desire from previous assignments as needed.

For (Optional) Assignment 3, use whichever respective products are needed to complete the look, depending on which type of makeup trend you choose to focus on.

Unit F: Agency Work

Unit F Assignments

Again, there are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment:

1. Cover Shoot: The assignment outline will provide you with a specific scenario. Based on that scenario, create a makeup application for an editorial project. As with all previous assignments, a before and after photo will be required.
2. Runway Application: The assignment outline will provide you with inspiration photos from a specific (real) Fall/Winter collection. Without copying those looks (but rather, using the inspiration to create a brand-new look of your own), create a design on a face chart. Next, apply that makeup design to your model’s face and submit an after photo.
3. Skill Test – Avant Garde: On your model, create and submit an original Avant Garde makeup application. Before and after photos are required.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit F

For all Unit F assignments, there is no list of required products provided in the assignment. As such, use whatever products you desire from previous assignments as needed.

Unit G: Business Training and Portfolio Development

Unit G Assignments

There are 3 assignments in Unit G:

1. Identifying Your Target Market: The written portion of this assignment will help you develop your customer persona and develop a business brand that appeals to this persona. Next, the practical portion of this assignment will challenge you to create and submit a portfolio image that appeals to your target market.
2. Building Your Brand: This written assignment will challenge you to create a name for your makeup business, develop your tagline and mission statement, and design your business logo.
3. Marketing Strategies: The written portion of this assignment will task you with choosing the best social media platforms to market your makeup business on, based on your target market. You will also be challenged to come up with a catchy promotion that you feel will land you client bookings. Finally, the practical component of this assignment will have you create a makeup look that you’d like to share on social media that best represents your business brand and appeals to your customer persona.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit G

Only Assignments 1 and 3 involve completing a makeup application. For those assignments, you are free to use whichever products from your makeup artistry kit you desire.

Unit H: Television, Film, and Theater

Unit H Assignments

There are 2 mandatory assignments and 1 optional assignment in Unit H:

1. Theater Makeup: Choose one of the characters listed in the assignment outline. Next, do research on this character and then design your makeup application on a face chart. After taking a before photo of your model without any makeup, create an original makeup application based on your understanding of this character. (Don’t merely replicate looks that have already been done – put your own twist on it!) Lastly, take/submit an after photo.
2. TV & Film: The assignment outline will provide you with a specific scenario. Take a before photo of the model sans makeup. Based on the provided scenario, create a makeup application that would translate properly to the camera (film and/or TV). Finish by taking/providing an after pic.
3. Skill Test – Character Building: You are challenged to imagine your life as a television show, and then create TV character makeup based on your “character”. After photos (full face, close-up of open eyes, and close-up of closed eyes) are to be submitted.

Makeup Tools and Products You’ll Need to Complete Unit H

No list of required products is provided for any of Unit H’s assignments. As such, you are free to use whichever products from your makeup artistry kit you desire.