Media Hairdressing

Media Hairdressing is not to be confused with salon hairdressing. You will learn how to style and dress hair for the camera.

It is considered to be 50% of your skill base and is an essential skill of all make-up artists. Hair and make-up go hand in hand. Gone are the days when separate make-up and hair artist were employed on jobs. People who train only in make-up will get little or no work, as their skills and abilities are limited.

This course will take you from basic hair techniques, through creative fashion looks, styling and dressing hair for the camera, through to fantasy/futuristic creations to wig work and intricate period styles and finally basic cutting.

Course Content Overview

Weeks 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

Weeks 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