Re: ANAM’s (Anam Falak) Make-up classes: a review
Hi I am sorry to know about your experience. I truly feel for you that you wanted to learn but you couldn’t. Anam should take care of her students, 20k might be nothing for her but they could be a lot for others.** You should have written this review on her page. **
Well as far as I am concerned I did course with Anam few months back in UK. My experience was good but it could be because of the fact that basically I wanted to learn only eye makeup and I did learn it there. There were 20+ girls in our class, she was not rude in answering our questions but she could not deliver how to properly use a foundation, bronzer and blusher. Everyone’s face shape is different and you cannot just pick a perfect face with all cuts to teach others, I think it could have been better if she would have done some effort in teaching this part.
She has a carefree attitude and sometimes I found her proud but I think thats because of her fame and level of success she is enjoying. I am not appreciating it but you know people are like that. One more thing which might be irrelevant I have seen people writing on anum’s page to remove their pics but she doesn’t remove them. This is surely not professionalism.
Other thing she took us to MAC store and told us because she gets 20% or 25% discount so we can buy under her name and pay her rather than paying to the store , she made us feel that she was doing a huge favour on us, which she was but later we found out that MAC actually gives her 33% - 40% discount. We felt pretty bad that she was doing favour on us because she wanted to earn more by our purchases. We wouldn’t have felt bad if she wouldn’t have lied about a small discount
Anyways its hard to catch her and if anyone wants to learn eye makeup only then go for her otherwise I do not recommend and btw her hair course is just CRAP. Save your money.
To answer the bolded part, I did. She deleted the post within half an hour and blocked me (I can only see posts not comment on them). She also photoshopped me out of the picture she took of this class with their certificates, which I thought was very petty and unprofessional.
I don’t understand the reason to be rude, I have heard this from another person as well. People have paid and enrolled to learn, you are expected to teach, be there, answer questions, provide an accurate assesment, sign the certificates and give each individual time EVEN if it’s a ‘group’ session you have enrolled for. Fellow students won’t be able to judge if you have contoured properly or if your foundation is blotchy/patchy or if your lip shade compliments your eyes, they are learning as well! To set an example a MUA should be available before and after class for any furthur queries.
Another thing, at most classes and trainings you are provided with ‘basic’ make-up and a starters brush set but I have never heard of anyone in Pakistan offer them. We were trained to make individual face-charts for each student (as everyones’ features and complexion is different) but you don’t get any. Every face can not be contoured in the same way.
She actually did provide a set of brushes and an eyeshadow kit, that are okay quality. But you’re exactly right about everything else! There were no face charts, and she didn’t check anyone’s work to see if we actually understood what she was demonstrating.