Short Courses

Any of the modules from our 16-Week Complete Make-up Course can be taken as an independent module. Where a course has pre-requisites, you will need to do the course with us at Delamar or provide us with evidence of sufficient expertise. This is for your benefit, as well as for the other students on the course.

The available modules are:

• Basic Make-up
• Camouflage and Period Make-up
• Fashion Make-up
• Basic Hair
• Period Wigs
• Period Make-up and Hair
• Body Painting and Airbrushing
• Casualty
• Facial Hair
• Character Make-up
• Basic Prosthetics and Bald Caps (2 weeks)
• Haircutting and Barbering (2 weeks)
• Hollywood Hair (2 weeks)

How you'll learn it

Your tutor for each module will be a top professional make-up artist, hairdresser, or prosthetics expert active in the industry.

The modules are low on traditional classroom lecturing and high on practical demonstration and hands-on interaction. From your very first day, you'll be working with the skills and techniques you are learning.

Basic Beauty Make-Up

In this module you'll study facial anatomy, health and safety practises, skin care, the correct use of tools and products, the principles of lighting and shading in make-up, as well as colour mixing and blending, the application of bases, and beauty make-up for day and evening. You'll also cover bridal make-up, corrective make-up (contouring and face shaping), and the make-up techniques required for HD TV and Film.

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Camouflage and Period Make-Up

You'll learn how to apply camouflage make-up for concealing tattoos, blemishes, and scars etc. Then you'll learn how to research and use reference photos to create period looks and period make-up for Film, TV, and Theatre. Periods covered will include the Eighteenth Century, the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Make-up

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Fashion Make-Up

This module teaches you how to perfect techniques for lips, eyes, cheeks, and eyebrows. You'll look particularly at applying these techniques for fashion photography and the catwalk. You'll also learn how to follow a fashion brief and acquire knowledge of fashion products and how best to use them.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Make-up

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Basic Hair

Now you'll move on to hair techniques for use in both period and fashion hair styling. This will include using electrical equipment such as tongs, heated rollers, straighteners, and bendies. You'll learn techniques such as styling long hair, French pleats, bridal styles, braiding, and plaiting, as well gaining knowledge of a variety of hair products and how best to apply them.

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Period Wigs

You'll have fun working on real hair wigs with lace fronts, as used in Theatre, Film, and TV. The module takes you through blocking, dressing, cleaning, and washing wigs, as well as researching period styles, creating ringlets, spirals, pincurls, finger waves, and victory rolls. By the end, you will understand and be able to apply the correct styling for a particular period setting.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Hair

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Period Make-Up and Hair

Putting some of your earlier learning into practice, you will now research a period look of your own choice and combine period make-up and hair to create an individual project. This will involve setting, dressing out, fitting, and applying wigs, as well as choosing and using costume to achieve the final finish for your required look.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Make-up, Camouflage and Period Make-up, and Period Wigs

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Facial Hair

This is less about the problem kind and more about researching facial hair through the ages. You'll learn how to knot a piece of facial hair, how to dress and tong moustaches, beards, and sideburns, as well as all the skills needed for the application, maintenance, styling, and cleaning of facial hair.

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Bodypainting and Airbrushing

Here you'll learn to research and develop designs and apply various bodypainting products. You'll be using sponge and brush work, as well as learning airbrush techniques - including the necessary health and safety issues associated with an airbrush. There will be free-hand painting, shading and blending, cutting and using stencils, and you'll complete the module with an individual bodypainting project.

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Casualty

Not for the squeamish! You'll learn to research various casualty effects - using reference material - so that you can create bruises, scars, open wounds, stitched wounds, grazes, cuts, burns of all types (first to third degree), and different blood effects. In addition, you’ll learn how to create dirt, sweat, and tears, how to maintain an effect for continuity over time, illness, spots, diseases, track marks, use of products such as scar plastic, latex, wax, glycerine, gelatine, and designing and applying a casualty project.

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Character Make-up

When a character needs to age or even change gender in Film, TV and Theatre, the make-up artist has a range of techniques to hand. You'll learn how to to apply appropriate facial hair and stubble, for instance, in addition to special make-up techniques. The module includes an individual character project of your own.

Course pre-requisite: Facial Hair and Casualty

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Prosthetics and Bald Caps

Learn how to make and apply a Bald Cap, as well as designing, making, and applying a range of prosthetic pieces. The 2-week module also covers the theory of prosthetics and working procedures, health and safety practises, face casting, sculpting, foam runs, preparing moulds, and the application of pieces with make-up to achieve a finished look.

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Haircutting and Barbering

This 2-week module teaches the basic principles and techniques of cutting hair, from long layers to short hair cuts, scissors over comb, clippering, blowdrying, cross checking, texturising, razoring, blending, and fashion blowdrying and styling.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Hair

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Hollywood Hair

Ever wondered how celebrity hairdressers create those red carpet looks? Find out their secrets by taking this 2 week course covering all aspects of hair styling from bridal through to Light Entertainment. Tutors Lisa Hilton ('Strictly Come Dancing', 'Over The Rainbow', NME music awards, numerous commercials, music videos and celebrities) and Paul Haskell (Hair Designer of 'Strictly Come Dancing' for 4 years, Hair Designer of 'Dancing on Ice ' for 3 years, Hair Designer of 'Pop Star to Opera Star' and personal hair stylist to numerous red carpet celebrities) will break down the hairstyles seen in fashion, music videos and dance shows and teach you the skills to achieve them. Whether you're a new make-up artist starting out or already working in the industry but lacking confidence in your hair ability, this is one course you cannot afford to miss.

Course pre-requisite: Basic Hair

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Where you'll learn it

The light and airy classrooms of Delamar Academy are located within the world-famous Ealing Studios in West London. You can learn more about Ealing Studios itself on our Get in touch page or on the Ealing Studios site itself.)

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