Why My Love Gets Me So Down

I've been sitting in front of this computer for hours raking the internet for some makeup resource gem that I must keep missing. But no. There is no such gem.

These are the things that you will find if you search for makeup artistry on the internet:
1) Sephora (I know it's hard to believe, but most people who work there have never done makeup artistry prior to their employment at Sephora.)
2) web pages for bad makeup artists
3) makeup schools offering $10,000 courses that last a few weeks (I wish I was kidding.)
4) makeup forums filled with people who think they're makeup artists (But they're not.)

It's all a load of shit. Is there no place that provides real collaboration, advice, and networking for people who are talented and serious artists?

Don't even get me started on finding real makeup jobs. The only makeup jobs posted on the internet involve selling makeup to old ladies in department stores. It's like being a therapist in an old folks' home except you get the added bonus of convincing some shriveled old lady that spending hundreds of dollars on makeup will magically restore her youth to the likeness of a Hollywood starlet.

Then there's MAC. What once was a pro MUA line, turned into a consumer brand posing as a pro line. I don't mean to say that the pro artists who work for MAC don't do amazing things, because they do. And, in case you're wondering, MAC's pro artists don't work at their stores; they're the ones that get hired to do really well-paid shit for famous clients all around the world. It's just so depressing to see 45 year old women with their 12 year old daughters sporting the same porn-star-meets-drag-queen-meets-Long-Island-girl makeup when they leave the MAC stores together.