Media Hairdressing | 5-Week Course

This course offers intensive training in all skills relevant to 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. You will leave this course with the confidence and skills to achieve any style desired.

5 Week Media Hair Course Content Overview

Week 1

Introduction

Tools, equipment & products

Health & safety

Sectioning hair

Pony tails

Using heated appliances (hairdryers, heated rollers, tongs, hoods, bendies, straightening irons)

Techniques (backcombing, smoothing, creating different types of curls, Velcro rollers and roller placement/ 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

Styling hair for photography

Styling hair for TV & film

Maintaining styles for still & motion work

Creating different simple fashion looks to brief (casual, day time, evening, sporty, classic, high fashion, contemporary, business)

Maintaining styles on set and quick changes

Hair partings

Hair continuity

Bridal hair styles (classic, modern and contemporary)

Bridesmaid’s hairstyles (classic, modern and contemporary)

Plats & pleats (French, modern, classic & herringbone)

Using hair pads and hair pieces

Catwalk hair

Problem hair

Week 2

Creative hair work including:
Môn fibre hair sculpture and hats
Creative hair loop sculpture
Stitched wefts, ironed Môn fibre sheets

Hair cutting including:
One length
Long layers
Forward graduation
Classic bob
Fringes

Cutting techniques including:
Point
Brick
Slicing
Thinning

Week 3

Short hair cutting
Round layers & texture cutting
Men’s hair cutting and grooming
Use of clippers
Facial hair trimming and grooming

Week 4

Wigs, hair piece & switch work:

Measuring for a wig
Tools and equipment
Blocking wigs and cleaning
Wig galloons
Wrapping hair
Banding hair
Painting out hair line
Wig application, removal, care, setting & dressing
Toupees

Beards, moustaches & sideburns:

Application, dressing, grooming, removal & care

Week 5

Period hair – including use of wigs & pieces:

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