{"id":39,"date":"2019-04-14T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tara.app\/?p=39"},"modified":"2019-06-07T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:59:25","slug":"how-the-makeup-school-was-birthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/how-the-makeup-school-was-birthed\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Makeup School Was Birthed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>House of Tara\nMakeup school was founded in 2004 by Nigeria\u2019s foremost Professional makeup\nartist, Tara Fela-Durotoye. She began by teaching one interested person. The\ncuriosity and desire for more in her students drove her to set up a comprehensive\nmakeup school that offers up-to-date education to aspiring makeup artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cA candle loses nothing by lighting another\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the\nschool was to train and develop the next generation of makeup artists. At this\ntimethere were no makeup schools in Nigeria, Tara developed a detailed\nmakeup curriculum that has since shaped the beauty industry as we know it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the industry\u2019s training then\nhappened informally through apprenticeships and internships that were often\nunpaid and all-but-inaccessible to people without inside connections and\nfinancial means. With so few doorways to the beauty industry and so many\ninterested young people, someone needed to bridge that gap and Tara\nFela-Durotoye did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school opened its doors in a modest\nfacility in Victoria Island, Lagos and recruited its first set of students. The\nplan was simple: offer shorter, more concentrated classes; keep all instruction\nmaterials up-to-date with the latest professional methods and standards; and\nattract top working artists to work in the makeup studio. <em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost\ntwo decades later, we have seen numerous talented artists come through the\ndoors of the fourteen branches of our Makeup schools across Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Tara Makeup school was founded in 2004 by Nigeria\u2019s foremost Professional makeup artist, Tara Fela-Durotoye. She began by teaching one interested person. The curiosity and desire for more in her students drove her to set up a comprehensive makeup school that offers up-to-date education to aspiring makeup artists. \u201cA candle loses nothing by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.houseoftara.com\/makeup-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}