Pros
Good for part time job if at college/uni Good as starter job into makeup and if your skills are limited. Opportunities to run your own masterclasses if you come up with good ideas. Really easy going workforce, however so relaxed may aswell be laying down at times
Cons
Creatively quite boring if you are an actual makeup artist. The ‘senior makeup artists’ aren’t actually makeup artists most of the time; and are often out skilled by beauty advisors. Therefore you never feel like you learn anything new in terms of techniques. There isn’t opportunity for artistry time and therefore most people who work here are creating monotonous instagram-ish looks. A bit slow on trend and products.... i.e will promote a product for months before release and by the time of release customers are over it. Quite often customers are aware of new releases before beauty advisors and senior artists are asked to keep new releases a secret however it’s found out via customers anyway If your looking for progression in artistry it is very limited - there is only 1 field position above senior artist and only one person holds that position in a given region. And there is only 1 senior artist per counter/store which means if you want to progress you will be waiting a long while and you cannot progress working part time so... you do the math.