Our story
Maison Belle grew out of a frustration. Our founder, Clarisse Yeo, spent a decade as a bridal and editorial makeup artist across Singapore weddings and shoots. Along the way she kept meeting people who had paid good money for courses and come out with a certificate but no real ability — they had watched, but never properly practised.
So in 2020 she opened a small Bugis shophouse studio and ran it the opposite way: classes capped small, most hours spent working on live models, and every student corrected as they went. Word spread, a second studio for skincare and aesthetics opened at Novena, and a teaching team of working professionals came on board.
We are still small by choice. We would rather turn an intake away than overfill a class, because the whole point of training in a studio instead of watching tutorials is that someone is watching your hands.
How we teach
Small, corrected classes
Classes are capped so a tutor watches your hands and corrects you in the moment — you are never one of forty faces in a demo room.
Hours on real models
You spend most of your course working on live models, not watching slides. Skill lives in the repetitions, so we give you plenty of them.
A certificate studios know
Local studios and salons we work with recognise the Maison Belle certificate — and we are honest that your portfolio and attitude close the booking.
Honest career talk
Expect a straight answer on where the paying work is, what it pays, and what each course does and does not qualify you for. No inflated promises.
How enrolling works
Find your course
Use the Beauty Career Finder or message us — we will match your interest, goal and experience to the right track and intake.
Reserve your seat
A small deposit holds your place in the next intake. Classes are capped, so popular intakes fill early.
Train hands-on
Attend small evening and weekend classes, work on live models, and get corrected as you go by a working tutor.
Graduate with a portfolio
Finish with a graded portfolio, a kit guide, and an honest plan for your first paying clients or studio interview.
Who you’ll learn from
Clarisse spent a decade as a bridal and editorial artist across Singapore weddings and shoots before opening Maison Belle. She still takes a handful of bridal bookings a year so her teaching stays current, and she leads the makeup diploma personally.
Renee built and sold a busy lash studio before moving into teaching. She is exacting about isolation, retention and hygiene — the unglamorous habits that separate a set that lasts from one that falls out in a week.
Marissa trained as a facial therapist and worked in both day spas and an aesthetics clinic. She teaches skincare with a careful eye on scope — confident on facials, clear about where regulated clinical work begins.