Study the JDO Method from India. Complete your Immersion in the Netherlands.

Students from India and other countries outside the EU are welcome. There is no academic or professional requirement and you do not need a beauty background. We have students who start from zero and students who already work professionally and come to add the JDO Method to what they can already do. The minimum age is 18. All education is taught in English.

Yes. Colour theory is part of the Method from the start: you develop insight into colour, undertones and working professionally with different skin types and skin tones, including deeper skin. You are not taught one look for one kind of face. You are taught to read the face in front of you and decide from there, which is what makes the Method travel.

Your training starts as soon as you enrol. The Immersion takes place in the Netherlands: Make-up from 15 to 19 June 2027, Hairstyling from 20 to 23 June 2027, and if you take both you are with us from 15 to 23 June. Because a module is released every week, you need to have enrolled by 26 January 2027 for Make-up and by 21 February 2027 for Hairstyling. If you take both, 26 January is your date.

Your stay is short: 15 to 19 June for Make-up, 20 to 23 June for Hairstyling, and 15 to 23 June if you take both. For a stay of that length a short-stay Schengen visa is generally the relevant route. We prepare the educational documentation that supports your application, including your exact training dates. We do not give immigration advice and the application itself stays with you, so always check the current requirements with the Dutch authorities.

Then your place moves to the next edition. Nothing is lost: you keep learning online in the meantime, you keep your guidance and your access, and you join the Immersion after that one. The online phase is the part that takes the months anyway, so arriving at a later edition only means you arrive with more practice behind you.

We do not ship products to India. Importing cosmetics into India is heavily regulated and the duties and delays make it impractical, so you buy your materials locally. You receive a detailed list from us that describes exactly what each item has to do: the type of brush, the shape, the undertones your palette needs. You can put that together anywhere, and learning to judge your own materials is part of the craft. For Hairstyling you can buy a practice head in India, or practise on models. Either is fine.

The sessions run on Dutch time, and India is three and a half to four and a half hours ahead depending on the season, so an evening session in the Netherlands falls late at night for you. You do not have to be awake for it: every session is recorded and you watch it back in the JDO Collective Community whenever it suits you. Your questions and your work still get answered either way, because feedback on your assignments runs separately from the sessions.

We do. Professional models are booked for the shoots, so you work with the kind of face and hair you will meet on a real job. The model fee is listed separately from the tuition: €310 for the two models on the Make-up shoot, €155 for the one model on the Hairstyling shoot, and €465 if you take both programmes.

Through the website, in one payment, with credit card or PayPal. Payments run through Stripe and are charged in euros, so your bank converts at the rate of the day. You pay the tuition together with the €350 documentation fee when you enrol.

It is a JDO Academy certificate: a private training certificate from our academy, not a government diploma. JDO Academy is registered with the CRKBO and exempt from VAT. What it carries is the work behind it, which is why every programme ends with a professional shoot and portfolio material you can show.

Every student who completes the programme receives a JDO certificate. On the Make-up Artist Class there is also an exam. You build your exam portfolio online during your preparation and submit it before you travel, so the assessment is already behind you when the Immersion starts. A pass gives you the official JDO exam certificate. The exam and the certificate are the same whether you finish online or travel for the Immersion. On Hairstyling there is no exam. You practise throughout the programme, your work is reviewed by the JDO Academy educators, and you receive your certificate on completion.

If we move an edition, your place moves with it to the new dates. If we cancel an edition and there is no edition that works for you, you get your money back. Your online learning is unaffected either way, because that part does not depend on the dates in the Netherlands.

Included: the complete JDO Method in the app, personal feedback on your work, monthly live Academy Sessions with Juliette, free access to the JDO Collective Community, one month of JDO Collective Membership, your practical Immersion days in the Netherlands, a professional final shoot, portfolio development and your JDO certificate.

Not included: the shoot models, which are required and paid separately, and everything around your trip: flights, accommodation, meals, travel and health insurance, local transport, your own materials and professional kit, and the visa application itself. The €350 covers exactly one thing: the educational documentation JDO prepares for your file. The application, its fees and the appointment are yours.

You arrange your own stay. We confirm the exact training location well before you book flights or apply for your visa, and we are happy to point you in the right direction so you book somewhere close to it.

You keep access to the free JDO Collective Community, where artists connect, share work and find briefs and collaborations. Every student also receives one month of JDO Collective Membership with their programme. After that month you decide for yourself whether you continue. Nothing renews automatically.