This is me and my makeup class at CSULB circa 1996.  Our teacher was Barbara Matthews.  CSULB used to offer an MFA in Makeup but sadly, they don't anymore, and then Barb retired.  So you'll have to go somewhere else, like one of these fine schools listed below.  
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Makeup Schools

Anthony Kosart was the Face Off Season 4 Champion and Dina Cimarusti, Face Off Season 7 Champion, was his student.  Now she teaches for him.
There have been 23 graduates of the Cinema Makeup school to compete on Face Off so far.  Ve Neill now sponsors a scholarship there.
 There have been 14 graduates of the Tom Savini school to compete on Face Off so far.  McLennan alum Oliver Lukach went to Tom Savini's school.  The Dick Smith course is now taught only at Tom Savini's school, Dick Smith being deceased now.
Conor, who was the Face Off Season One winner, is a teacher at Joe Blasco.  Many of his former students went on to compete on Face Off as well.  Which just goes to show that the old adage "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach"  is wrong.
Stan Winston is sadly deceased but his faculty will still teach you how to make monsters.

Makeup Designers

Dick Smith is the Godfather of special effects makeup.  He started out as the head of makeup for NBC and went on to practically invent special effects makeup.  He's won more awards than probably anyone else in the business.  He started  teaching a correspondence makeup course (back before the internet) but now his course is taught at Tom Savini's school.  I did a workshop with him and Rick Baker when I was in graduate school.  He was the nicest man you'll ever meet and now it's too late because he died in July. This is his personal website.
Stan Winston was the Monster Maker.  He did the aliens in Galaxy Quest. This is his personal website.
Dick Smith was Rick Baker's teacher and mentor.  Rick has won 7 Oscars for An American Werewolf in London, Harry and the Hendersons, Ed Wood, The Nutty Professor, Men in Black, How the Grinch Stole  Christmas, The Wolfman.  RIck is known for his werewolves and other furry creatures.  He often appears as an extra in the movies he's designing.
The Godfather of Gore, the Sultan of Splatter.  This is his personal website.
Nick Dudman did the makeup and special effects for all of the Harry Potter movies and more recently, the Penny Dreadful series.
Ve Neill is currently a judge on Face Off.  She's won three Oscars for Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, and Mrs. Doubtfire.  She's been nominated for Pirates of the Carribean, Batman Returns, and Edward Scissorhands. She's currently finishing up the Hunger Games trilogy.
Studied at Joe Blasco school.  Worked on the X-Files and Bedazzled.    Worked with Ve Neill on Edward Scissorhands. Won an Oscar for Dracula.
Won an Oscar for Star Wars, The Elephant Man.  Designed the original makeup for Michael Crawford in Phantom of the Opera.
Head of Makeup Department on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Richard Taylor, Peter King, Peter Owen, led the team on the LOTR movies.  The company started with Hercules and Xena and then took off from there.
Founding partners Lindsay Macgowan, Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, and Alan Scott supervised projects at Stan Winston Studios for over 20 years before Winston’s passing in 2008. After his death they formed their own company, Legacy Effects.

MAKEUP IN THE MEDIA

The only prosthetics makeup show on TV.  It's on the SyFy channel.  Sadly it ended it's run after 13 Seasons, but you can watch them all on the internet.
A trade magazine dedicated to all fields of makeup: beauty, theatre, film, television. 
Dr. Tara Maginnis of the Costumer's Manifesto fame, has created her own series of How To Makeup DVDs.
themakeupgallery features the work of makeup artists creating female characters for movies and TV shows.

The makeups are illustrated with over 15,000 images of actresses in character and prosthetic makeup from literally hundreds of movies and TV shows. The transformations from actress into character are illustrated with before and after shots and, wherever possible, with behind the scenes shots of the makeup design and application.

This link was shared with my by a student of Abby Murphy's, a teacher who is running an online summer theatre program.  That student's name is Donna and she found this on the internet and thought it would be useful to other visitors.  So you can thank Donna for this link being on my website!
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