Combined Media Make-Up & Hairdressing

This course combines the 10 week Media Make-Up Course and the 6 week Media Hairdressing Course. By attending the 16 week course a huge saving is made, rather than attending the courses individually.

10 Week Media Make-Up Course Content Overview

Week 1

• Day 1
  • Course introduction
  • Kit familiarisation/ care & development
  • Portfolio introduction
  • Skin care, skin types and face shapes
  • Creating make-up for camera (studio lighting, natural light, foundation, concealer and powder (types and applications)
  • Shading and highlighting (types and applications)
• Day 2
  • Natural make-up for high fashion close up photography (no make-up looks, matt & dewy / shimmer & colour)
  • Camouflage make-up
• Day 3
  • Eyebrows and eyebrow correction
  • Lip shapes and lip shape correction
  • Eye shapes and eye shape correction
• Day 4
  • Bridal make-up (services, advertising & fees)
  • Evening make-up/ smokey eyes
• Day 5
  • Classic catwalk uniform make-up
  • Eyeliner (cake, gel, fluid, pencil & kohl)

Week 2

• Day 6
  • Male model make-up
  • Current trend make-up (creating looks under direction to brief)
• Day 7
  • 20 minute make-up applications to a brief demo & practical body make-up (incl. corrective make-up, foundation, applications, muscle definition, shading & hand make-up)
  • Make-up for black & white photography (film)
• Day 8
  • Glamour make-up
  • High fashion eye make-up styles, techniques & product knowledge
• Day 9
  • Beauty make-up
  • Working on set (set protocol, where stand, Polaroid’s & digital cameras, final checks, working with photographers, understanding set equipment, health and safety on set)
  • Mature model make-up
• Day 10
  • Black, Asian & oriental make-up
  • Waxing out eyebrows
  • Practice session

Week 3

• Day 11
  • Straight corrective make-up for TV & film (male & female)
  • Working in high definition
  • Understanding crew roles/ titles, working with monitors
• Day 12
  • Careers work (CV’s, composition cards, marketing, advertising, unions, insurance, registration protocol, tax, NI, go sees, castings, networking contacts, invoicing & fees, dailies)
  • Eyelash application
• Day 13
  • Body painting & creative design – demo
  • Tattoos (artwork, character, freehand, stencils, stamps & transfers)
• Day 14
  • Stage make-up (straight, character and ageing)
  • Stage wounds
• Day 15
  • Working with briefs, treatments & scripts (incl. different types of briefs/ treatments, script / character breakdown & budgeting)
  • Continuity
  • Script breakdown & continuity exercise
  • Practice session

Week 4

• Day 16
  • Bald cap making
  • Character make-up
• Day 17
  • Researching for TV & film
  • Stubble effects & laying on hair
  • Dealing with problems (chapped lips, hyper-sensitive skin, reactions, skin conditions, watering eyes, excess sweating & post surgery)
• Day 18
  • Bald cap application & make-up
• Day 19
  • Practice of body painting/ creative design
• Day 20
  • Recap & portfolio practice

Week 5 – High Definition Airbrushing

• Day 21
  • Tools, equipment, materials & kits
  • Product knowledge
  • Trouble shooting
  • Foundation applications
• Day 22
  • Shading and highlighting
  • Cheek colour
• Day 23
  • Eye shadow & eyebrows
  • Full body make-up application
  • Body shading and highlighting
  • Tanning & muscle definition
• Day 24
  • Casualty effects (incl. death, stencil & tattoo work, veins and bruising)
• Day 25
  • Casualty effects continued

Week 6 – Period Make-Up

• Grecian
• Roman
• 1820s
• 1840s
• Victorian
• 1910
• 1920s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s

Week 7 & 8 – Special FX

• Tools, equipment & materials
• Health and safety
• Bruising (ageing of bruises)
• Black eyes, broken nose & split lip
• Scabs, spots & blisters
• Illness make-up
• Tooth enamel
• Sweat & tears
• Dirt, mud, puss & soot
• Bullet wounds (entry & exit)
• Scratches & grazes
• Burns make-up (1st, 2nd & 3rd degree, different types of burns)
• Slit wrist
• Stitched wound
• Laying on hair & attaching pieces onto bald caps
• Ageing for TV & film
• Death make-up
• Vein work
• Drug addict & track marks
• Stab, puncture wounds & glass injuries
• Script simulation
• Zombie, horror, fantasy & sci-fi make-up
• Pre-made prosthetic application, make-up application, removal & artist care
• Sculpting & mould making of scars & wounds

Week 9 – Fashion Styling

Week 10 – Portfolio Week

6 Week Media Hair Course Content Overview

Week 1 & 2

• Introduction
• Tools, equipment & products
• Health & safety
• Sectioning hair
• Pony tails
• Using heated appliances (hairdryers, heated rollers, tongs, hoods, bendies, crimpers, straightening irons, conical wand)
• Roller set (heated, bendies, velcro & wet sets)
• Working with different hair types (fine, thick, curly, Asian, afro Caribbean, dry, damaged, greasy, treated & extensions)
• Short hair styling (male & female) young and mature styles, different ages
• Styling hair for photography
• Styling hair for TV & film
• Maintaining styles for still & motion work & product use
• Creating different simple fashion looks to brief (casual,day time, evening, sporty, classic, high fashion, contemporary, business)
• Barrel curls
• Buns, smooth & messy
• Chignons under & over
• Beehives
• Mohicans
• Ironed spikes
• High fashion styles
• Hair accessories
• Current trends
• Temporary hair extensions
• Z curls & waves
• Maintaining styles on set and quick changes
• Hair partings
• Hair continuity
• Bridal hair styles (classic, modern and contemporary)
• Brides maids hairstyles (classic, modern and contemporary)
• Plats & pleats (french, modern, classic & herringbone)
• Using tiaras, veils, flowers & accessories
• Asian bridal hair
• Long hair work
• Using hair pads and hair pieces
• Catwalk hair (3 looks)
• Problem hair (alopecia / hair loss, dandruff, psoriasis, lice)

Week 3

• Creative hair work including:
• Futuristic & high fashion looks
• Môn fibre hair sculpture and hats
• Creative hair loop sculpture
• Stitched wefts, ironed môn fibre sheets
• Trimming and grooming
• Trimming and tidying fringes
• Tidy / groom and trimming of men's hair (back & sides)
• Facial hair & beard grooming

Week 4, 5 & 6

• Wigs, hair piece & switch work
• Measuring for a wig & sizing
• Tools, equipment & products
• Blocking wigs and cleaning
• Wig gallons
• Wrapping hair
• Banding hair
• Painting out & disguising hair lines
• Wig application, removal, care, setting & dressing
• Toupees
• Switches work & cluster pieces
• Cage making & padding
• Lace edge wigs
• Repairs & problems
• Dressing out
• Beards, moustaches & sideburns
• Application, dressing, grooming, removal & care
• Period hair - inc use of wigs (all lace edge) & pieces
• Researching periods
• Egyptian
• Grecian
• Roman
• 1830,s
• Victorian
• Edwardian
• 1910
• 1920,s
• 1940,s
• 1950,s
• 1960,s
• 1970,s
• 1980

Portfolios

Your portfolio is your main and essential tool for gaining work. All areas of media require a professional portfolio. You will work alongside professional modelling agencies, meaning that your make-ups will be done on professional fashion models and photographed by a professional fashion photographer in a real working studio.

School Of Make-Up is the only make-up training school that offer their students this facility to this level. Your portfolio is a crucial part of your career, meaning that when you leave you will be able to search for work immediately, showing each prospective employer your skills. Leaving without a portfolio will mean that you will have to struggle with photographers for test shots in order to develop a portfolio.