Makeup
Self-makeup courses
Taught on your face, with your products, for the life you actually have. The goal is a routine you can do in twenty minutes without thinking about it — and know how to stretch when it matters.
Why it is taught this way
Most makeup lessons are a demonstration: someone does a face on you, you go home, and you cannot reproduce any of it. Here you hold the brush from the first ten minutes. I sit beside you and correct as you go.
We start by emptying your bag onto the table. Usually a third of it is wrong for your skin, a third is the right idea in the wrong shade, and a third is fine and being used backwards. Sorting that out is worth more than any technique.
You leave with photographs of each step on your own face, taken as we go, plus a written routine. Nobody remembers a two-hour lesson. Everybody can follow their own notes.
The private course, hour by hour
Your kit, on the table
We go through everything you own. What stays, what goes, what you were sold and never needed. You get a short shopping list, never a sales pitch.
Skin
Prep, base, and how much coverage you actually want. This is where most routines go wrong, and where the biggest change happens.
Structure
Brows, and the three-minute version of shaping the face. Practised on your own bones, not a chart.
Eyes and mouth
One daytime eye you can do half-asleep, and one evening variation built from the same steps. Plus how to fix the wing when it goes wrong.
Doing it alone
You run the full routine start to finish while I watch and say nothing until the end. That last hour is the part that makes it stick.
Courses
Private, one day
Four hours, one-on-one at the studio. Kit review, full routine, written notes and step photographs. The most common booking.
$425
Private, two sessions
Two afternoons a fortnight apart. The second is for what fell apart at home — which is always something.
$690
Small group
Three hours, four to six people, each on their own face. Bring your own group, or join a scheduled Saturday.
$180/person
Mother and daughter
Three hours for two, pitched at a first proper routine and an updated one. Popular before graduations.
$390
Prices in Canadian dollars, taxes not included. Bring your own products; the studio has clean brushes and everything you might want to try.
I have been wearing the wrong foundation for eleven years. Eleven. Anaïs, private course
Before you book
I wear almost no makeup. Is this for me?
Do I need to buy anything first?
Do you teach for mature skin?
Can we do this before a photo session?
Book a course
Tell me what your mornings look like and what you want to stop worrying about. I will suggest the right format.