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Become a makeup artist or stylist

Become a makeup artist or stylist

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Become a makeup artist or stylist

- If you have a knack for doing makeup or styling, then you have an opportunity to make money from all sorts of events, such as weddings, photo shoots, video shoots, and more. It's a longer list of people in businesses that need this than you might think. Corporations have needs for videographers all the time. And this means you could fill that need as a freelancer. Those who need pictures for modeling portfolios also present an opportunity. The list of potential business for you as a long one. Your first main action step here is to put together a small website that showcases your samples or a portfolio. You can use Wix or Squarespace for this. Set some fixed prices and make some flyers. Carry business cards. If you're a stylist and have makeup skills, watch Craigslist for people who do photography and video and offer them your services. They'll be the ones who need a hair makeup person when they do that corporate video…

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