Makeup Services & Education in Nashville
Full Face
Get pampered like a celebrity with Emmy Winning Makeup Artist Meanie Mills & pro team. From natural makeup to full glam. The service includes luxury skin preparation, a flawless complexion, any desired eye makeup and lashes. Makeup is set to last all day.
We can accommodate up to four people at a time, depending on availability and with advance notice.
Make it an outing! if with a group while waiting for your turn in the chair, treat yourself to a tarot reading, shop our store or explore the many other shops and restaurants in our neighborhood.
Receive 15% off products you buy during or after your session.
Although we don't offer blowouts (as we don't have a wash bowl), we do offer stunning dry styling and elegant updos to complete your glam. Whether you desire soft, romantic waves or a sculpted, editorial upstyle, our artists will enhance your appearance with precision and care.
Come and be styled like the goddess you are — why not add makeup for the ultimate glam experience at The Makeup Altar?
Dry Styling
Soft curls, waves, half-up styles, or polished straight looks designed on clean, dry hair.
Updos
Chic, structured, or romantic upstyles perfect for events, weddings, and special
moments.
Makeup at Your Location
Want to feel like a celebrity with makeup and hair services done at your home or hotel? Melanie and her team would be happy to come to you!
*Includes 30 minutes for setup and breakdown.
Add-On:
Makeup Services
Additional female makeup
Hair Services
Dry Styling
Soft curls, waves, half-up styles, or polished straight looks designed on clean, dry hair.
Updos
Chic, structured, or romantic upstyles perfect for events, weddings, and special moments.
Do you want to focus on a particular 'trouble area'? Are you brand new to makeup? Never learned how to apply it properly? Feeling overwhelmed by Instagram, TikTok or YouTube tutorials?
The Feature Focus 1:1 Makeup Education session is a concentrated lesson we can focus on skin prep and perfect foundation or concealer and complexion and contour or eyes and eyebrows or eyes and lashes. Whatever area/areas you need to learn or improve, we will cover them in a 45-minute session.
Receive 15% off makeup & skincare products you buy during or after your session.
Brand new to makeup? Never learned how to do your makeup properly? Need a refresh or looking to update your look? Overwhelmed with Instagram, TikTok or Youtube tutorials? Want to focus on a particular “trouble area”? Are you over 40, 50 or 60 and products are not doing what they used to do for you? Need to learn makeup for stage performances?
Whatever it is you wish to focus on, Melanie is all yours! She does your makeup while talking you through all the steps of why and how to apply techniques handpicking products that are right for you. You can choose to sit and absorb the process, or be guided through doing some or half on your own.
One-on-One Session
Receive 15% off products you buy during or after your session.
Session for two
Create makeup memories! Learn together during this duo education session.
Brand new to makeup? Never learned how to do your makeup properly? Need a refresh or looking to update your look? Overwhelmed by Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube tutorials? Want to focus on a particular “trouble area”? Need to learn makeup for stage performances? Need to learn makeup for mature skin? Whatever you both wish to focus on, I’m here to help! I’ll do your makeup while explaining all the steps, including why and how to apply techniques and how to use products that are handpicked for each of you.
This scenario allows the learning to "sink in" better by not only learning your own makeup application but also watching it happen next to you, with most steps re-explained! This also helps with accountability later. This session is popular and a lot of fun!
Interested in gathering more than one friend or family member? Check out the glam parties we offer.
Receive 15% off products you buy during or after your session.
3-8 People
Bring your friends and family for a fun Glam Day. Be treated by a celebrity Emmy Award Winning makeup artist and pro makeup team!
Three person minimum, $75 per person.
Includes:
- Feature Focus: 30-40 minutes of makeup education on a feature like foundation application and how to contour or how to fill in your brows right and how to apply lashes or how to overdraw lips naturally and how to make your makeup last. You name it. I'll go over your specific needs while the others watch and learn.
- Experienced professional makeup concierge to help you and your party pick skincare, makeup prep and makeup products, all custom matched, that is just right for each individual!
- Complimentary glass of champagne and refreshment. Can bring your own too.Add a tarot reading, henna application, braiding or disco fairy hair! Ask for pricing.
Booking conditions
50% deposit due at booking. Balance due 2 days prior to day of party.
3 to 8 people
Mini Makeup Glam Sessions with experienced professional makeup concierge.
Includes:
30 minute mini makeup glam session per person, two at a time + Private Shopping Experience with experienced professional makeup concierge to help you and your party pick skincare, makeup prep and makeup products, that is just right for each individual!
Also Included:
- Tid bits of makeup education
- Complimentary champagne and other refreshments.
- 1/2 an hour buffer for extra shop and schmooze after last people get glammed.
- 10% off makeup and skincare.
Booking Conditions
Four person glam minimum. $85 per person.
50% deposit at time of booking. If anyone in the party cancels wanting the glam or doesn't show up full price will still be collected. Final balance due 2 days before party date.
4 people
5 to 6 people
7 to 8 people
The price is $85 per person. This price includes personal makeup shopping concierge.
Full Glam
Full Face.
Includes:
- Skin prep
- Lashes
- Champagne and refreshments
- 10% off makeup and skincare.
Four person minimum
4 people
5 to 6 people
A bridal makeup job is equivalent to working with a celebrity, as you are the star of your big day. Melanie will cater to you as she would a celebrity for a film, tv shoot or red-carpet event. Step into your wedding day with confidence, radiance, and a fully pampered experience. At The Makeup Altar, our bridal makeup services are designed to enhance your natural beauty while giving you that signature Melanie Mills Hollywood glow, camera-ready, long wearing, and unforgettable.
On the wedding day Melanie comes and does you as a “do and go”. Do and go means: Melanie and team comes to you and gets you and the wedding party done then goes.
Melanie brings a top-notch team for your wedding party to feel as though everyone is part of a Hollywood experience.
Grooming for the groom, makeup only, is included, unless you add hair then the groom’s hair will be handled too.
If you choose to add a trial this will be done at The Makeup Altar.
Bridal Makeup & Trial
This includes a trial and travel on the day within a 30-mile radius of the shop.
An additional fee will be charged if the wedding venue is more than 30 miles away from the shop, and this will be discussed during the consultation.
Add-On:
Extended Stay
For bridal makeup, we can stay through the pre-photos and the ceremony, and/or stay through dinner and an outfit change.
Additional female makeup
Bridal Makeup (no Trial)
This includes travel on the day within a 30-mile radius of the shop.
An additional fee will be charged if the wedding venue is more than 30 miles away from the shop, and this will be discussed during the consultation.
Bridal Hair & Trial
This includes travel within a 30-mile radius of the shop on the day.
An additional fee will be charged if the wedding venue is more than 30 miles away from the shop, and this will be discussed during the consultation.
Add-On:
Extended Stay
For bridal hair styling, we can stay through the pre-photos and the ceremony, and/or stay through dinner and an outfit change.
Additional Female Hair: Dry Style
Additional Female Hair: Updo’s
Bridal Hair (no Trial)
This includes travel within a 30-mile radius of the shop on the day. You can also add a trial at the shop for an extra $150.
An additional fee will be charged if the wedding venue is more than 30 miles away from the shop, and this will be discussed during the consultation.
All virtual mentorship sessions will be recorded and can be rewatched for up to 2 weeks after the end of the session.
One-on-One Virtual Mentorship
Are you looking to adopt better business practices? Do you need help with a change you’ve been wanting to make? Do you want to become a make-up artist but don't know where to start? Are you already a professional makeup artist, but feel that you need to up your game and are unsure what to do? Do you need help creating a personal brand identity? Want to launch a brand but don't know where to start? Are you in the middle of running a small brand and need help with packaging or navigating the many challenges? Do you need help with social media and your website? Not sure how much to charge? Are you struggling in your work environment? Do you need inspiration and motivation? Can't get to Nashville in person to learn makeup techniques from me? I can also teach makeup techniques via Zoom, whether you want to learn for personal use or you're a makeup artist working with a model.
Take this opportunity to learn how to survive and thrive in the beauty industry, and receive mentoring from a successful beauty boss who has done it all!
I am a two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist with 21 Emmy nominations and five Guild Awards. I am also the author of Glitter & Glam, published by Penguin. I am also the CEO and founder of Melanie Mills Hollywood Cosmetics, which is celebrating its 15^(th) year in business. I was a brand ambassador for St Tropez for six years and was involved in product development. I have been a Local 706 Guild member for over 22 years. Having relocated to Nashville, TN, I have completely rebranded my makeup career. I own and operate 'The Makeup Altar', a brick-and-mortar make-up and metaphysical shop in Nashville. I have been a top make-up educator for over 17 years and have spoken on many panels to large audiences.
Available by Zoom.
3 Hours Package for Mentorship (Recommended)
1 Hours Package for Mentorship
The 3 hours will be broken up through the course of a few weeks.
3 hours is the recommended package as Melanie will be giving you homework that needs to be checked on and reviewed along with answering additional questions.
Tarot readings clarify situations, illuminate the unknown, and confirm messages that come intuitively to the reader from your Spirit team. Serving as a collaborative guide, our tarot readers can help you awaken to the synchronicities and truths within your subconscious.
Coming in with a friend, family member, or group for a glam party, service or education? Enrich your experience by adding a tarot reading before, after, or in-between, depending on the size of your group! You can go in together as a group but will still be charged individually.
It is recommended to pre-book.
Our readers are excellent and have never disappointed! Readings are available without a glam appointment too! Check them out here. Please call or email to book.
Tarot Reading
15 min Reading
30 min Reading
60 min Reading
Halloween / Cos Play Makeup
Price will depend on how extensive and time consuming the look is, the extra products needed to complete the look and any extra special skill set required, like SPFX.
Glam and Gore we do it all! Including SPFX! From hairy wolves, witches, Dia De Los Muerto sugar skulls, creepy skeletons, devils, cats, Freddy Cougar, vampires and more, you name it we can create it!
Check out our Halloween makeup and supply shopping page for more inspiration.
Makeup is set to last!
Two-Time Emmy Award Winner
About Melanie Mills - The Makeup Altar Founder
Melanie Mills is one of Hollywood’s leading makeup and beauty experts with over 25 years on Hollywood sets. With twenty one prime time & daytime Emmy nominations, two Emmy wins and five Guild Awards, on-camera beauty expert, CEO and founder of Melanie Mills Hollywood Cosmetics, educator and published author of her visual makeup book “Glitter & Glam”, she is a master of her craft. Known for her glamorous gleaming flair, talent, and vivacious personality.
Melanie loves to share her passion and knowledge for makeup. Recently, Melanie relocated to Nashville with her family and together they opened The Makeup Altar.
How To Book Makeup Services
MAKEUP SERVICE HOURS
Makeup service can be done outside of shop hours, contact us for more details.
CALL US
+1 (615) 538-4515
EMAIL
customerservice@themakeupaltar.com
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114A South 11th St., Nashville, TN 37216