Media Hairdressing | 4 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. You will leave this course with the confidence and skills to achieve any style desired.

4 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)
Setting hair (using heated rollers, 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

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)
Brides maids hairstyles (classic, modern and contemporary)
Plats & pleats (French, modern, under & over, classic & herringbone)
Using tiaras, veils, flowers & accessories

Using hair pads and hair pieces
Catwalk hair (3 looks)
Problem hair (alopecia, dandruff, psoriasis, lice)

Asian bridal hair
Long hair work

Barrel curls
Buns, smooth & messy
Chignons under & over
Beehives
Mohicans
High fashion styles
Hair accessories
Current trends
Temporary hair extensions
Z curls & waves

Creative hair work 

Week 3 & 4

Wigs, hair piece & switch work

Measuring for a wig & sizing
Tools, equipment & products
Blocking wigs and cleaning
Wig galloons
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

Period hair – including use of wigs (all lace edge) & pieces

Researching periods
Egyptian
Grecian
Roman
1830s
Victorian
Edwardian
1910
1920s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s