[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC. If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need for your classes].
Student Code of Conduct:
#1 – Learn your new Mantra of Enlightenment:
“There is nothing wrong with my face!”
While a makeup class is an appropriate place to discuss age, race, disease, genetics, smoking, drinking, gender, acne, tattoos, body issues and lots of other hot button topics as they relate to the human face, that is not a license to give anyone a hard time about any of these issues. Please treat this class as a supportive therapy group that can help you learn to accept, play with, and revel in, your face. Help your classmates do the same.
#2 – Homework
If you end up doing some of your assignments at home, it is just fine to have a member of your household assist you with some part of your project (taking your photos, help sticking on eyelashes, doing your hair to go with your makeup) but most of the work on your face must be your own.
If you really need extra help, and you have help on hand, a housemate who has experience in this can be helpful as a tutor, especially as you are beginning. You will learn faster if you ask your helper to apply something on your non-dominant hand side, then hand you the brush so you can repeat it on the “easy” side. Usually, after a few times of doing those difficult parts that way, your brain & hands will “get it” and you will need less tutoring.
In our “live” in person class I and the TAs do this for students who have little or no makeup experience who typically need to be walked through the first two Age Makeup assignments. If you have the luxury of an in-house tutor who will show you how to do the hard bits on one half of your face, and you mirror the makeup on the other side, you are still not cheating, you are learning with a tutor. Do NOT however give in to the urge to let your tutor do more than one side of your face, or do half of it on every assignment. That is NOT OK!