r/Makeup101

19K archived posts · Aug 2015 – Sep 2026

Makeup for Beginners

r/Makeup101

Makeup 101 is a beginner friendly, tutorial and education focused subreddit focused on learning and improving makeup skills and techniques. Post your tutorials you've made or found, and ask questions to get help from other makeup lovers!

Created May 27, 2015

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Makeup 101 for those who know little to nothing about makeup and want to improve their look.

Ask questions, post guides, give advice, post pictures of your progress!

#Rules:

Don’t be a jerk. Makeup is fun and all inclusive. Being a jerk includes telling people to smile, for them to lose weight, making a comment about their appearance that is not constructive.
Makeup101 is a place to ask questions and learn. With that, posts must be relevant to learning makeup and makeup education.
Posting content from your website is fine, but it must be a direct post to information a beginner can use to start makeup/a tutorial. Users who spam their website or content will be banned.
No Giveaways - Those posts will be removed. Unless it happens to have an excellent tutorial, which is at Mod discretion. Please PM us to get approval before you post something with a giveaway.
Photo editing is not allowed, except color correction for accuracy. No filters (including beauty/selfie mode and any automatic filters).
Selfies must be posted in the weekly selfie thread unless a detailed tutorial is also included.
Advice posts must only be make up related. All advice posts are required to include headshots with makeup... Any more than face and shoulders will be removed. You may include more photos without make up for reference.
Don't' be creep. This is a safe space for makeup. not for lude comments. You will be banned.

Violations of rules will result in your post being removed. Multiple violations will result in a ban.

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