NJS Workshops
Learn the work, not the shortcut.
A hands-on masterclass with Janu for artists who want more than a look to copy. You bring your kit and your questions; you leave with a method you can repeat on a face you have never seen before.
The idea
Most makeup education stops at the finished photograph. Ours starts a step earlier — at why a base sits the way it does on one skin and slides on another, why a bride's face reads differently under a mandap than under a ring light, and what an artist actually does when the plan meets the person. Janu teaches the way she works: slowly, out loud, and with her hands in the work rather than beside it.
Groups stay small on purpose. Everyone gets a face to work on, and everyone gets time with Janu at their station.
What you'll practise
Four things you can take back to your own chair.
The signature flawless base
Reading skin before you touch it — texture, tone, undertone and what it has been through this week — then building a base that corrects without covering. Prep, product choice, sequence, and the small decisions that separate a base that photographs well from one that only looks well.
Long-wear that actually lasts
The technique behind a face that survives a full function: heat, humidity, embraces, dancing and tears. What to lock and when, where the failures usually start, and how to build durability in without the finish turning heavy or flat.
Bridal artistry, start to finish
Structuring a complete bridal look around a real face and a real outfit — eyes, definition, colour balance, and the decisions that keep tradition and camera both satisfied. Including the parts nobody films: timing a booking, sequencing your tray, and staying calm on the morning.
Adapting it to the face in front of you
The difference between a look and a method. Taking each technique off the demonstration model and onto different features, skin types and skin tones, so the work holds up when the next client looks nothing like the last one.
Who it's for
Built for people who will use it on Monday.
There is no entrance test, and there is no pretending everyone arrives at the same place. Tell us where you are when you enquire and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right room for you.
Working artists
You take bookings already and want to sharpen a base you are not fully happy with, or replace habits you inherited from a video with reasons you can explain.
Salon and studio teams
You want your whole team finishing to one standard, so a client's experience does not depend on which chair they are sitting in.
Artists starting out
You have the interest and some practice, and you want a proper foundation rather than a collection of half-remembered steps.
Doing your own face
You are not building a career, you are preparing for your own occasion — and you would rather understand your skin than buy another product that does not suit it.
How a day runs
Demonstration, then your hands.
The shape is the same each time even though the schedule changes: nothing is demonstrated that you do not then practise yourself, and nothing is practised without someone watching you do it.
Open and set up
Introductions, what everyone is hoping to fix, and a look at what is in your kit. Bring the products you actually work with — most of the useful advice happens here.
Watch it done
Janu works through the technique on a model at full pace, narrating every choice as she makes it, then again slowly on the parts people usually rush.
Do it yourself
You work the same technique at your own station on your own model, with Janu and the NJS team moving between stations to correct hands, angles and product load in the moment.
Review and fix
Your work is looked at properly — in daylight, under studio light and on camera — and you leave the section knowing exactly what to change next time.
Questions, kit and business
The unglamorous half: what to buy and what to skip, how to price and pace a bridal booking, and how to handle the morning when the timeline slips.
An additional practice day can be arranged for artists who want more supervised repetition. Mention it when you enquire so we can plan the room around it.
What you leave with
A method, not a mood board.
A base you can repeat
A sequence you understand well enough to adapt, on skin you have not seen before, without hoping it works out.
Fewer failures on the day
You will know where long-wear looks break down, and you will have practised the fix rather than read about it.
Your own work, corrected
Feedback on what you actually did in the room — the single thing most artists never get after training ends.
A shorter shopping list
A clearer view of what earns its place in your kit and what has been sitting in it out of habit.
What we will not promise: bookings, followers or a career. Those come from the work you do afterwards. What we can promise is that you will practise on a real face, be corrected while you do it, and understand why every step is where it is.
Enquire
Tell us where you are, and we'll send the details.
Dates, cities, group size and fees change from season to season, so we would rather give you the current ones than leave stale ones on a page. Send us your details and the team will come back to you with what is next — by WhatsApp or by phone, whichever you prefer.
- Upcoming dates and the city they run in
- What the sessions cover and what to bring
- Fees, group size and how to hold a place
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