Media Hairdressing | 6 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.

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