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Top 25 Makeup artist schools based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 244 makeup artist schools headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,859 professional contacts across them, including 260 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers makeup artist schools headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest makeup artist schools based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,081 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thanks to the life and teachings of Paul Mitchell, the legendary hair designer, product innovator, and salon educator, careers in hair design today can be both personally and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The publishers of Modern Salon and Day Spa magazine rank our beauty and wellness academies "Best in the Nation." Three of our campuses are located in beautiful, sunny San Diego…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avalon Institute is a post secondary education company offering education in the beauty related fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Make-Up Designory (MUD), students learn by doing in an inspiring, supportive environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accredited since 1980, our institution provides a cutting-edge cosmetology education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Southeastern Esthetics Institute, a premier esthetics training institute located in the heart of South Carolina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1993, Cinema Makeup School is Hollywood's professional makeup school."CMS"(as the students call it) provides education, career and technical training for a variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For the past 50+ years, Kenneth Shuler School of Cosmetology has been working to produce thousands of successful beauty industry professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Previously Zenon International, Crave Beauty Academy now celebrating 10 years in 2023!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brittany Beauty School was originally founded in 1968 by Margaret Falcaro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cameo College of Essential Beauty is a higher education company based out of UT, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Aveda Institute of New Mexico is a professional training & coaching company based out of NM, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Following in the footsteps of other legendary makeup luminaries is one of the industry's most sought after celebrity makeup artists: Debra Macki.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Makeup Institute is an accredited, industry-driven beauty school dedicated to training the next generation of professional makeup artists and estheticians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You deserve to have a professional career that you love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TUMAKEUP es la escuela de maquillaje profesional 100% online fundada por Andrea Curto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a Pivot Point School, PB Cosmetology Education Centre specializes in the scientific approach to hair design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative Images Institute of Cosmetology-North Dayton is a higher education company based out of OH, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At The Makeup Academy, our aim is first and foremost to help our students achieve their personal career goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Paul Mitchell the School is designed to teach you the skills you'll need, inspire you to explore your passion and creativity, and help you learn the business that will make your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rudae's School of Beauty Culture is a higher education company based out of Fort Wayne, IN United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Salon Boutique Academy, you'll acquire the knowledge, skills, creativity and confidence necessary to make your mark in an innovative industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: makeup artist schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names makeup artist schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of makeup artist schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name makeup artist schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Makeup artist schools based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 244 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among makeup artist schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “makeup artist schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names makeup artist schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among makeup artist schools, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 260 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names makeup artist schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many makeup artist schools are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 244 makeup artist schools headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Paul Mitchell Schools, headquartered in Riverton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most makeup artist schools?
Los Angeles leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by New York (11) and Atlanta (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 260 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 244 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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