The Makeup System vs Student Mobile App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Makeup System
Create and design any makeup look with this digital face chart tool. Features include a vast color palette, various brushes and tools, and the ability to save and share your creations. Ideal for aspiring and professional makeup artists.
- Digital face chart creation
- Extensive color palette
- Multiple makeup brushes and tools
- Layering and blending options
- Save and email face chart collections
- Video tutorials for application techniques
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Paul Mitchell® and Paul Mitchell Schools present The Makeup System app. This app has all you need to draw and create any makeup design, including high-fashion, runway, avant-garde, photo shoot, or everyday looks. The Makeup System app is a must for all who love makeup, including new makeup artists and seasoned professionals. Special features of the app include: - View video tutorials on cheek, eye, and lip application. - Build your own face chart by selecting from various face sizes, skin tones, eye shapes, and lip shapes. - Utilize the large color palette to include pastel, neutral, bold, and shimmer shade; all colors can be layered, blended, and smudged. - The seven makeup brushes include a thin liner, lip, fan, angled liner, blush, and two shadow brushes. - Utilize various tools, including a pencil eraser to erase or clean unwanted lines; two different sponges for blending; and a pencil to be used as an eye, lip, or brow liner. - A special “layer” option allows you to better “draw within the lines” in the foreground or background of the face chart. - A zoom feature allows drawing details on the eyes, lips, or any area of the face chart. - Create and label multiple collections of face charts that can be saved and e-mailed to others. The Makeup System app is for Paul Mitchell Schools students and licensed professionals. Obtain your login account info from your Paul Mitchell school today.
Student Mobile App
This app helps students at participating schools monitor their attendance. Users can clock in and out of school and review their attendance records. It's designed to simplify tracking school presence.
- Clock in/out functionality
- View attendance history
- School participation required
- Student attendance monitoring
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The Student Mobile App provides students who attend participating schools the ability to keep track of their attendance. This includes clocking in, clocking out, and viewing attendance history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Student Mobile App at fortnightly against The Makeup System's every 4 months. Student Mobile App also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (59 vs 15). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.7 for The Makeup System against 1.6 for Student Mobile App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 59 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
The Makeup System ships an update every 4 months, Student Mobile App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Makeup System | Student Mobile App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (15 ratings) — better | 1.6 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robinsage | Emphasys Software |
Customer experience
The Makeup System
Student Mobile App
In-app purchases
The Makeup System
No in-app purchases
Student Mobile App
No in-app purchases
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