Sarah Rillon
Sarah Rillon, owner and founder of The Permanent Makeup School VA, has dedicated 25 years of her career to honing her beauty talents and training and mentoring aspiring makeup artists and everyday people. A natural creative, Sarah specializes in all forms of art and trades in the beauty industry, including PMU, makeup, hair, and skin.
Sarah began her professional career in the beauty industry at MAC Cosmetics as a manager, educator and platform artist, facilitating seminars and teaching all over the nation for over 11 years.
After facilitating her first large-scale makeup seminar for her personal brand “Sarah Rillon MUA” in 2013, Sarah's vision was broadened towards the want and need of schooling for makeup artistry in Hampton Roads. This seminar was one of the key inspirations that prompted Sarah to open The Makeup School by Sarah Rillon. Open for almost 10 years now, The Makeup School has facilitated over 20 back to back fully booked long term programs, with students attending from all over the country.
Sarah and her team of over 40 employees have consistently provided makeup and hairstyling services to tens of thousands of clients for special events, weddings, commercial, fashion, and film year after year.
Sarah's mission to bring joy and confidence to every client resulted in her desire to add skin and permanent makeup services to her portfolio in 2016, subsequently attending Esthetics school and founding the Permanent Makeup Studio of Virginia. Sarah is currently 35x certified in permanent makeup, specializing in signature techniques in microblading, microshading, machine nanostrokes, machine ombré, even saturation natural to dramatic powder brows, lash enhancement, top and bottom liner, winged and ombré eyeliner, lip blush and lip tint, blush, bronzing, scalp micropigmentation, areola and nipple repigmentation, stretch mark and scar camouflage, and saline and angel removal. Sarah also received the best technique award in 3 of her PMU certification courses amongst over 50 other students in her classes. Two of her awards were specialty techniques for Leann La’s “Fuzion Artistry” signature natural powder brow style and “Brow Daddy’s” signature dramatic powder brow style—which exemplifies Sarah’s versatility in her skill set and brow styles.
Due to the tenure that Sarah and each of her hand selected artists have in the beauty field, her and her team have an extremely healthy client base acquiring and performing several services daily. Her and team have performed well over 7000 PMU services to date.
Sarah is also a licensed master permanent cosmetic tattooer and instructor, specializing in permanent makeup techniques outside of the spectrum of eyeliner, eyebrows and lips—there are only a small handful licensed throughout the entire state of Virginia.
Sarah describes herself as an optimist, a golden rule follower, Type A and OCD, addicted to straight clean lines and precision in every form, in addition to being food, fashion and design obsessed. Sarah loves traveling and discovering new places, enjoying nature and scenic beauty, and experimenting with the latest beauty products and techniques. When she isn’t busy running multiple businesses and beautifying the world, she loves spending time with her husband, 21 year old son, 3 year old daughter and 2 year old baby girl—and attempting to catch a nap in between.
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