21-year-old electrical engineering student and amateur makeup artist gets asked by a friend to do free makeup for 12 hours for her school project, gets mistreated by cast for being 20 minutes late, doesn't return to set: ‘I feel so uneasy’

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  • A woman on a film set gets her makeup done by a makeup artist
  • "AITA for refusing to return to my friend’s short film set?"

    Hi, I (22F) am studying electrical engineering, so this is way out of my field, but here is what happened. I have a friend (22F) who is studying cinema. She asked me to be the makeup artist for a short film she was shooting last Friday and Saturday. She
  • wanted me to work from 7 AM to 7 PM with absolutely no pay, and I had to bring my own materials to do the actresses' makeup. I didn't study makeup professionally, but I'm a huge enthusiast. Also, I don't live in the US/Europe, so I have to get good brands imported to my country, which makes them way more expensive.
  • Film students use a clapboard between takes as they film their school project.
  • Since I had to be there at 7 AM on Friday, I decided to skip my college classes that day just to help her and her crew. I arrived 20 minutes late-I know that's on me, but the day before I had a major final exam, pulled an all-nighter,
  • and only slept for two hours just to make it there. When I arrived, nobody greeted me at all. Mind you, a lot of the crew members were late too and hadn't even arrived yet.
  • My friend had told me she would provide some makeup, but the "makeup" she gave me consisted of dirty brushes, one lipstick, and a gloss. Meanwhile, I was supposed to do a red smokey eye on one actress and a very high-contrast look on the other. Neither of them had foundation, and they told me both actresses had to share a single concealer. No foundation, no powder,
  • no nothing! I did what I could and ended up using my own high-quality palettes to do a decent job. (FYI: I wasn't getting paid either day to be on set for 12 hours fixing makeup and wasting my own expensive products).
  • A woman in white professionally applies makeup to another woman for a film set.
  • As soon as I finished the two looks, I asked for feedback. Everyone just stared at me like I was crazy, and my friend (the director) just said, "It looks fine." Not even a thank you. They started filming, and since I had only slept two hours in the span of two days,
  • I fell asleep. Eventually, my friend woke me up saying the makeup needed a retouch. I looked at it and it honestly looked fine, so I asked what specifically needed fixing. She just answered, "Just put some powder or something." So I
  • did. I just added a bit of powder where I thought it might be needed and redid one girl's lips. At this point, nobody had even asked for my name or said hello. Later, I asked to leave for two hours because I had a pre-arranged time to sell a phone. My
  • The view from a professional camera's viewing screen, recording an actress at a table.
  • boyfriend came to pick me up, and he told me everyone looked at him in a very ride way. We just tried to leave as quietly as we could. After that experience, I felt so incredibly uncomfortable and unwelcome that I didn't want to go back on Saturday. I decided to stay home, eat pizza, and watch a movie. Later that
  • night, my friend texted me asking if I could lend her my makeup palettes so she could do the looks herself the next day. I actually went and dropped them off at her house that same night because I wanted to be responsible, but I still feel so uneasy about how I was treated. So, AITA?

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