Makeup Education · Veneto, Italy
Private, one-to-one makeup lessons
From everyday makeup basics to advanced professional training — personalized lessons taught one-to-one, at your pace, by a makeup artist with 17+ years of experience and an international teaching background.
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Lesson formats
Personal Basics Course
Learn everyday makeup fundamentals — skin prep, application technique, and building a look that suits your features, for personal use.
Advanced Professional Training
For those pursuing makeup artistry as a career — technique, product knowledge, working with clients, and building a professional kit.
Ongoing Mentorship
Follow-up sessions and advanced modules for students who want to keep developing specific skills after their first course.
My approach to teaching
I believe makeup becomes easier when you understand the purpose behind each step.
In my teaching, I do not simply give you a list of rules. I help you understand how skin, textures, proportions and colour work together — so you can make confident decisions rather than follow formulas.
My goal is to make professional knowledge clear, practical and personal — whether you are learning for yourself or building a career in the beauty industry.
When you understand the logic, makeup becomes a tool for revealing the best version of yourself.
Why train with Elena
- 17+ years of professional makeup artistry experience
- International teaching and backstage experience at beauty industry events
- Certificate issued on successful completion of professional training
Technique in motion
Short clips from my masterclasses and training sessions — a closer look at the technique itself.
What a lesson actually looks like
You do the makeup. That is the difference between a lesson and a demonstration: watching somebody with seventeen years of practice make it look easy teaches almost nothing, because the hard part is not knowing what to do — it is your own hand, on your own face, in your own bathroom light on a Tuesday morning.
So lessons are worked on one half of the face at a time, or done twice: once slowly, with the reasoning said out loud, and once by you while I watch and correct the grip, the angle, the pressure, the amount. Most of what goes wrong in everyday makeup is quantity and placement, not product choice.
We start with what is already in your bag
Bring the makeup you actually own, including the things you bought and never use. Half the value of a first lesson is finding out which three items are doing all the work, which ones are the wrong shade or the wrong texture for your skin, and which ones you have been applying in an order that undoes them. Nobody needs to buy a new kit to learn.
You leave with a routine you can repeat
Not a look — a sequence. The five-minute version for a normal morning and the longer version for an evening, written in the order you will do it, with the products you own named. A look you cannot recreate alone the next day was a nice afternoon, not a lesson.
Who comes to lessons
Never learned, and would like to
Women who have quietly avoided makeup for years because nobody ever showed them, and who want a short routine that looks like them rather than like a tutorial.
The face changed
Skin, eyelids and colouring change with the years, and the technique that worked at twenty-five stops working. This is the most common reason people book, and the easiest to fix.
Going professional
Those building a career: technique under time pressure, working on faces unlike your own, product knowledge, hygiene, and how to build a kit that actually travels.
Before an occasion
A lesson before a wedding, a graduation or a photoshoot, so you can do your own makeup on the day and know it will hold and photograph well.
Lessons are taught in English, Italian, Ukrainian or Russian, one to one, at a pace set by you rather than by a syllabus.