Because We Can!

 

 

One-to-One Attention
With a personal and caring touch!

Our class sizes are kept small to maximise learning and to build teacher-student bonds.This enables us to offer a much higher level of personal attention from artist to student. Our teachers pride themselves on always being approachable and understanding, as they know that students are investing in their careers and were in your position when they started out. Our trainers are there to always help and support you along the way. We offer the best international trainers in the business! This teaching style sets us apart from any other institution, ensuring you receive the highest level of one-to-one training from our tutors throughout your course.

Our Products
Like a kid in a candy store!

Our philosophy is to give every student the most up-to-date industry tools when training. To be the best in the business you need to understand how to use your products. This is one of the most important elements of being a good makeup artist. If you don’t understand products and the wide range of brands available, it will limit your ability to be the best makeup artist. A makeup artist will never use just one brand but work from a selection of different ones. We don’t believe in supplying makeup kits because this will limit the amount of product knowledge a student learns throughout their training. In most cases, schools will supply their own brand of cosmetics or a very limited kit to work from. This will not give any student a proper understanding of product knowledge. In the classroom, students will have a base kit of products to work from throughout the course, but more impressively the opportunity to use full ranges from the most prestigious and luxury makeup brands on the market. We don’t just offer a few products from each range we offer the entire range! You won’t find a school with more products choice than AOFM.

Exclusive Discounts
Only for AOFM graduates!

The Academy and our artists take pride in giving our students the very best personal attention and headstart to their careers. This is why we established the first ever personal shopping day during our courses. One of our artists takes the students out shopping and helps you build your makeup and hair kits. We introduce you to store managers and staff, which enables you to build more industry contacts and relationships, but best of all to take advantage of discounts exclusive to AOFM.
Our unique relationships with leading cosmetic houses allow us to offer a much wider range of discount programs! These exclusive discounts are run through the Academy from a wide range of stores and brands. All discounts schemes are subject to AOFM campus. Brands and stores include: MAC, Dermalogica, Shu Uemura, Nars, Bobbi Brown, Makeup Forever, Screen Face, Benefit, Stila, Ricky’s, Pam, Bare Escentuals, INGLOT, Smashbox, OCC, KMS, Goldwell, Crown Brush, The Makeup Store, NYX and many many more. There’s just not enough room on the page!

AOFM’s Famous Aftercare Program
A first in the industry!

We are the only makeup school to offer free, unlimited aftercare training, industry contacts and work placements. We believe in giving our students every opportunity possible in this highly competitive industry. Our school offers the widest range of working makeup artists and therefore our students are exposed to more contacts and industry insider information. Many students leave other schools wondering, ‘where do I go from here?’ This doesn’t happen to AOFM students. We have created a revolutionary aftercare program especially designed to give step-by-step help and support needed to become successful. Once you finish your training course with us you will automatically be offered our aftercare program. You can take these classes as often and for as long as you like. AOFM also connects you with cosmetic giants in the industry such as MAC, Dior and Bobbi Brown as well as top magazine editors from publications such as Marie Claire, Elle & Vogue.Since AOFM created the first Aftercare programme we now see it advertised everywhere. Be VERY wary about what is actually offered. Do your research on Google, Facebook and Twitter. We guarantee more masterclasses, connections in the industry and opportunities than any other school. Check out our Aftercare page and see for yourself!

Contacts Are Everything To a Makeup Artist
We’ve opened thousands of doors for our graduates!

AOFM has spent many years building its brand, creating a huge industry name and presence. Our philosophy has always been that an educator needs to be constantly involved and in-touch with the industry. How can you teach current make-up knowledge and trends if you are not actively involved in the industry?! This is a must for us, and is a solid foundation for our training. Having some of the world’s leading working freelance makeup artists teach our courses brings the most amazing clients and opportunities for our students. This is something that other schools can only dream of giving their grads! We travel around the world with our students, taking them backstage to work on more than 60 runway shows a year, on magazine shoots and at global events. Since starting AOFM our students have worked on events such as the Cannes Film Festival, Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model Live and we are the only academy to work for and judge the prestigious Global Fashion Awards. Not only that, but we bring in industry experts from all areas of the industry to share knowledge with our students. These contacts can take a makeup artist years to achieve! With AOFM we bridge that gap and enable our students to work on these exciting connections within weeks of graduation. But don’t take our word for it. Have a good look through our Twitter and Facebook to see for yourself the hundreds of places and opportunities we offer our students.

Real Reviews Straight from the
Mouths of Past Graduates.