Monday, April 9, 2012

Life Changes/ A Preliminary Review of QC Makeup Academy

So, I realized the other day that it had been exactly a month since I've been on here. I had been feeling really depressed and not doing much of anything for a while, but since then I have made some big life decisions. One thing I have realized was that my current path in college was not making me happy, and I have since decided that as soon as I am financially able to I will be going to esthetics school! Because esthetics school will be pretty much like a full time job, this will probably be a while so I decided that I was going to occupy myself with QC Makeup Academy until then.

I've been seeing ads for QC Makeup Academy for some time and I thought that it would be fun to try out. I enrolled in the Makeup Artistry course which costs $1198 and includes 4 units.

In my kit, I got:

-A product application guide



-Eco-Beautiful by Lina Hanson



-4 makeup palettes: 1 with lip shades, concealers, blush and eyeshadows similar to the Coastal Scents palettes


-4 sets of booklets for each unit


-And six cd's (which I can't find at the moment) with assignment forms and videos


Right now, I have only finished Unit A.


Unit A went over the basics- your goals and why you want to be a makeup artist, basic expectations and requirements of the makeup artist field, how to build your kit, safe and sanitary practices and how to build your business. After I submitted the set of assignments, I got detailed feedback from one of their instructors after a week.

So far, I haven't really learned anything that I didn't know already. However, it's just the first unit so I expect that it will get harder as I go on. There have been several questions that I have had and they have gotten back to me quickly, so the customer service is excellent. In terms of the videos, I haven't been blown away, but hopefully that will get better as I go on as I'm not really very far in.

Overall I haven't been blown away by this course. Pretty much everything I've seen or done are things that I could have watched on Youtube videos. I have high hopes though that the future units will be better.

6 comments:

  1. congrats on your decision!!!! hope this change makes you happy!!!

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  2. I would love to do something like this, good luck. I hope it goes well!
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  3. Good luck with the course lovely! I hope everything turns out to be great and that you'll learn some awesome tips and tricks!
    xx

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  4. Keep your chin up. Things will get better and work themselves out. We all go through this. I have my down days too.
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  5. Can't wait to hear more. Please keep us updated!


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  6. Better late than never... so how did your adventure end? I am thinking about buying into this BUT it's a lot of money and I need some real feed back. 🙂

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