01 · Foundations
Understanding Color
Explore visible color, the distinction between light and pigment, and the practical roles of RGB, CMYK, and RYB in makeup, photography, printing, and digital reference.
Prism & Shear
Professional Workshops
Private Professional Makeup Workshop · Bronx, NYC
Professional Color Theory
Build a practical understanding of hue, value, intensity, harmony, undertone, correction, and color planning—and learn how those principles guide professional makeup decisions.
Taught personally by
Tim Pearson
· Makeup artist and educator · 25+ years
4
Hours of instruction
1:1
Private format
$550
Workshop investment
Bronx
New York studio
Beyond Memorizing the Wheel
Learn to see what color is doing—not simply name it
Color theory is not separate from makeup technique. It influences foundation matching, corrective color, eye design, lip color, blush, contour, photographic balance, character work, and the emotional effect of a finished look.
This workshop connects formal color principles to real makeup decisions so you can evaluate color with greater accuracy and use it intentionally across different skin tones, products, lighting conditions, and creative directions.
What You Will Study
The color principles behind professional makeup decisions
The workshop moves from foundational color language into undertone, correction, harmony, and practical planning.
02 · Structure
The Professional Color Wheel
Study the twelve-hue RYB wheel, including primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, warm and cool relationships, and the terminology artists use to describe color placement and interaction.
03 · Properties
Hue, Value & Intensity
Understand how a color’s identity, lightness or darkness, and saturation affect how it reads on skin and how tint, tone, and shade alter a cosmetic color.
04 · Relationships
Color Harmony
Build intentional palettes using complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, and monochromatic relationships, then translate those systems into wearable and creative makeup.
05 · Complexion
Skin Undertones
Evaluate warm, cool, neutral, and olive undertones across varied skin depths and understand how undertone affects foundation, blush, contour, lip, and eye color choices.
06 · Correction
Corrective Color
Select green, yellow, peach, orange, lavender, and related correctors according to the discoloration, skin depth, product strength, placement, and amount of coverage required.
07 · Application
Choosing Color
Consider skin tone, undertone, eye color, wardrobe, lighting, medium, mood, character, and creative direction when building a complete color story.
08 · Planning
Applying Color Harmony
Translate abstract harmony systems into specific cosmetic placement through eye looks, complexion choices, lip color, and complete face-chart planning.
How the Session Works
Four hours of theory, demonstration, visual analysis, and practice
The workshop is designed to move color theory out of abstraction and into decisions you can apply in real makeup work.
Part I
Color Foundations & Professional Language
We establish the color models and vocabulary needed to discuss pigment accurately, including hue, value, intensity, tint, tone, shade, temperature, and saturation.
Part II
The Color Wheel & Harmony Systems
You work with the professional RYB wheel and examine how complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, and monochromatic relationships affect cosmetic color design.
Part III
Undertone & Corrective Color
We apply color relationships to complexion work by evaluating undertones, discoloration, corrector depth, product strength, and the difference between neutralizing and visibly covering.
Part IV
Practical Color Planning
The workshop concludes with guided color selection and planning exercises that connect harmony, skin tone, eye color, mood, context, and placement into a complete makeup design.
See the Technique in Action
Color theory, applied
A quick look at these principles in practice, straight from the studio.
Your Instructor
Professional experience translated into usable color decisions
Tim Pearson brings more than 25 years of professional makeup experience across editorial, television, theater, runway, commercial beauty, drag, character, and special effects.
His background in professional education and international training informs a practical approach to color theory: the concepts are taught not as isolated art terminology, but as tools for solving complexion, correction, harmony, and design problems.
Makeup Artist
Licensed Makeup Educator
NY Esthetician
NY Barber
25+ Years Experience
Workshop Investment
A private session focused on how you understand and use color
Professional Color Theory is taught one student at a time at Prism & Shear Grooming Atelier in the Bronx. Before scheduling, we will discuss your training background and goals so the workshop can be directed toward the areas most relevant to your work.
- Four hours of private professional instruction
- Professional color-wheel and terminology review
- Undertone and corrective-color analysis
- Guided harmony and color-planning exercises
- Take-home professional workshop workbook
- Personalized practice priorities after the session
$550
Private four-hour workshop
One student · One instructor
Appointment only · Bronx, NY
Appointment only · Bronx, NY
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