24Dec
The Title, Sales, and Printing Triangle
In recent years, in the field of permanent makeup, particularly in some organizations based abroad, the concept of "training" has transformed into a model focused less on developing professional skills and more on internal hierarchy, title distribution, and product/process sales .
From the outside, luxury hotels, stage designs, high-production presentations, and glamorous certificates may look impressive. However, for students, the real critical question is this:
Does this structure truly teach you the profession, or does it tie you to the system and draw you into a structure that feeds the upward flow of money?
1. How does a pyramid scheme-like operation emerge?
In these types of structures, the revenue model is often fueled not by "quality education" but by a combination of the following elements:
- Establishing a ladder of prestige through "title" layers (Student / Artist / Royal / Master, etc.)
- To stay on this ladder, there's a constant pressure to "appear active."
- Driven by the desire to remain within the system (or avoid exclusion), participants are inclined to recruit new members.
- Product, kit, and add-on package sales becoming the main revenue stream rather than education.
- Certificates and titles are awarded based on a "process completion" or "in-platform level" logic rather than professional measurement and evaluation.
In such structures, the system's rules and rank hierarchies are often publicly explained; it may even be explicitly stated that a title can be revoked if certain rules are not followed.
When this structure is managed with a platform-ecosystem logic rather than a classic educational institution approach, the student's focus shifts from "mastering the profession" to "staying in the system and advancing."
2. "Fear of Remaining in the System / Anxiety of Being Expelled" and Constant Pressure to Become a New Person
The most prominent psychology in pyramid scheme-like systems is this:
A person enters the system, pays a high fee, and then tries to progress within the system out of concern that "this money shouldn't be wasted." To progress, the following goals are often encouraged:
- More training packages/levels
- More expensive kits
- Higher titles
- Increased visibility
- More new participants
At this point, education ceases to be a process of professional training and transforms into a system of commitment and performance indicator . The student, unintentionally, finds themselves involved in "recruiting new people" and "expanding the network."
This is an extremely detrimental disruption for the education sector.
3. “Online Training + Title Distribution”: This Profession Isn't Learned That Way!
Permanent makeup;
- Skin anatomy
- Sterilization
- Complication management
- Color information
- Device and needle check
- Application pressure and skin reactions
This is an area with critical risks.
Because;
- By simply watching videos,
- By progressing through the "levels" within the platform,
- Through remote mentoring messaging.
It is not possible to learn it completely.
In some institutions, online training platforms and mobile applications are presented as the main mechanism for level advancement, title and certificate generation. Furthermore, some explanations emphasize progression th
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