Welcome to my world!
I'm Dzhuliia Melnik, Makeup Artist from Ukraine. I started my education as an actress in Theatre and Cinema, but taking lessons in theatrical makeup led me to realize that I wanted to dedicate myself to doing makeup.

 
I started working as a makeup artist when I was 18 years old. I was already working as a makeup artist when I decided to take a makeup class. While learning, I worked on television projects, where I got the experience of working quickly, and soon I began working on music videos, advertisements , work with celebrities, and eventually on feature films.

 

The first film that I worked as a Makeup Department Head was Let’s Dance  when I was 23 years old. In 2014, having discovered the show Face Off,  I decided to dedicate myself to special effects makeup.

At that time in Ukraine, this industry was not very well developed. There were no schools for education, no makeup materials, and to find prosthetic makeup professionals you had to look to other countries. Therefore I began the path of self-study through YouTube videos, watching the show Face Off, and other making-of videos where it was possible to learn some of the secrets to making movie monsters. Materials had to be ordered from the USA, and so I waited, often as long as three months for materials to arrive. I experimented a lot, and there were setbacks. In order to afford materials, I denied myself a lot, but the desire to learn and improve drove me forward.

In 2016 I won scholarship from Cinema Makeup School.
In 2017 while I was studying, I became a Leonard Engelman fellow.
After graduation, I returned to Ukraine and began working more on special effects and complex makeup. I started receiving invitations to work even outside the country.

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At this time I based in Los Angeles, California because of war in Ukraine and I ready to begin my career here!