Cinema Makeup School
3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Cinema Makeup School is located in Los Angeles, California, and is housed in the historical Wiltern Theatre building. The California school offers training to students in a variety of techniques, including special makeup effects, airbrush makeup and body painting.

The California school's beauty makeup program includes 140 hours of training over a month-long period, covering clean beauty, techniques for period makeup, fashion makeup, and film and television. Cinema Makeup School's high fashion photographic makeup program lasts for six weeks and covers 210 hours of instruction in clean beauty, fashion makeup, fantasy makeup, period makeup, hair styling, and film and television.

The professional makeup program at Cinema Makeup School covers 350 hours of training in 10 weeks, including six weeks of high fashion makeup instruction and four weeks of character makeup instruction. The California school's master makeup program lasts for 18 weeks and covers 630 hours of instruction in high fashion makeup, character makeup, prosthetic makeup, and special makeup effects.

Quick Facts:

• Cinema Makeup School features a fully equipped photography studio that provides students with professional quality portfolio pictures of their work, enabling students to secure job placement.


• The California school sends its graduates weekly e-mails containing information regarding jobs and industry leads from producers, directors, photographers and other sources.


• Graduates of Cinema Makeup School have gone on to work on a variety of projects, including photo shoots for the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art and fashion week in Los Angeles.


• Cinema Makeup School is authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrant, alien students. To study at the California school, international students must obtain a student visa from their local U.S. Embassy or Consulate.


• Classes at Cinema Makeup School can be taken in any order. Students at the California school are required to purchase all necessary materials before the first day of class.


• The 40-hour digital effects makeup design class at the California school covers retouching and retooling photographs using computer applications and other digital processes.


• In the 140-hour prosthetic makeup program at Cinema Makeup School, students learn the entire prosthetic process, creating silicone gel-filled appliances and multi-piece facial appliances.