Personalized Professional Makeup Mentorship
Professional guidance.
Individual attention.
A learning experience shaped around you.
Personalized mentorship is designed for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of makeup through focused, one-to-one instruction.
Whether you're a working or aspiring makeup artist, an educator, a performer, a creative professional, or simply someone who wants to become more confident and skilled with makeup, your sessions begin with where you are now — and where you would like to go.
Each session combines professional instruction, demonstration, hands-on practice and direct feedback, adapted to your experience, interests and objectives.
You may choose to focus on a specific technique, explore several areas of makeup, or build a structured learning path over multiple sessions. There is no fixed curriculum: the curriculum is built around you.
Training Format
• 3 hours per session
• $360 per session
• Personalized curriculum based on your goals and experience
• Written notes and recommendations included
• Model recommended when hands-on practice on others is required
• Certificate of Accomplishment available upon completion of a 5-session learning pathway
Your Mentorship Can Explore
The following are examples of what we can work on together. They are starting points — not fixed courses.
1. Bridal & Beauty Makeup
• Skin preparation and complexion enhancement
• Highlight, contour and blush — powder and cream techniques
• Classic and contemporary eye techniques
• Smoky eyes
• Bridal harmony, softness and longevity
• Adapting a look to individual features, style and occasion
2. Complexion, Features & Client Diversity
• Deep, dark and olive skin tones
• Undertones, colour correction and concealer strategy
• Monolids and diverse eye structures
• Masculine grooming and makeup
• Mature skin and age-specific adaptations
• Skin texture, coverage and finish
• Adapting techniques to individual faces rather than formulas
3. Period, Historical & Cultural References
• 1920s through Y2K
• 18th-century beauty
• Romanticism
• 1960s Mod
• 1970s glow
• 1980s intensity
• Glam Rock
• Biba and other influential beauty references
4. Camera, Editorial & Creative Makeup
• Natural makeup for photography and camera
• Commercial beauty
• Editorial makeup construction
• Haute Couture-inspired makeup
• Theatrical foundations
• Fantasy and creative makeup
• Brow blocking
• Developing and translating visual references into makeup
• Makeup for content creators — adapting makeup for digital film and video
Your Goals Define the Direction
These areas are suggestions, not predetermined pathways.
You are welcome to combine techniques from different categories, concentrate entirely on one area, or bring me a specific challenge, reference, project or personal goal.
Professional development, creative exploration or personal mastery.
Let's begin with what you want to learn and build from there.
I highly recommend this training to anyone who is passionate about art and beauty. Beyond the technical learning, this experience gave me a space to express my creativity and step outside my comfort zone.
-Farah Cherif, Aesthetics Teacher, École des Méetiers des Faubourgs
Testimonials for the Private Professional Makeup Mentorship
I had a wonderful experience with Jacques, who taught me with great professionalism, efficiency, and kindness how to enhance my eyes, along with many other helpful techniques to improve my makeup. I would not hesitate to take another lesson soon to continue developing my skills and to talk about beauty with such a talented makeup artist.
- Géraldine Charbonneau, Development & Content Producer – Television Fiction, Sphere Media
How the Mentorship Works
1. Tell me what you'd like to learn
Simply contact me and tell me what you would like to learn, along with a little about your current experience and comfort level with makeup.
2. Help me understand where you are now and how I can best help you
We'll discuss your objectives, preferences and what you would like to learn with me. Together, we'll identify your current comfort level with the products and techniques involved and determine where our work can be most valuable.
3. Receive your personalized proposal
I will recommend a session or learning pathway designed around your objectives.
4. Begin your mentorship
Once confirmed, we'll schedule your session and begin working together.