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Session Stylist/Hair styling Certificate
(Part - time)

This 6-day course over 3 weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) is suitable for the absolute beginner with no previous experience and there are no entry requirements. It would also benefit someone with hair styling experience who may feel they need a refresh on the latest styles.

This course builds from our Foundation and Advanced make up courses into the freelance world of hair styling. As now more than ever it�s important to have more skills than just make-up alone, this course is perfect for a make-up artist to learn added skills helping give you the opportunity to gain more work on photo shoots, catwalk shows and weddings.

Our hair courses are taught by freelance hair stylists, known in the fashion industry as session stylists. The artists teaching this course work on major fashion shows in London, Paris, New York and Milan as well as all the big magazines such as Glamour, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.

Our session stylist will give you a thorough insight into working on bridal, back stage on shows and photo shoots, as well as teach you the most up to date looks and styles. 
This course will teach simple hairstyles but will also work up to creative avant-garde styles you see on the catwalk and in magazines today.

The course will cover the following subjects in detail:
Hair Product selection:
Before creating a style, learn how to select the right product. In this section we will guide you through products and their uses.

Tools of the trade:
building a session stylist kit. You will find out what tools are needed for a hair and make-up artist�s kit.
A session stylist will guide you through their personal kits to give you a good understanding of what is required

Sectioning:
Learn how to section your work, keeping it clean and tidy before beginning your desired style

Blow drying:
Learn how to blow dry hair in to simple styles adding body to flat hair, create flicks and interesting natural styles
Styles using the tongs: Most session stylists work with tongs whether it�s back stage or on a shoot. Learn how to create body curls flicks and other tong tricks

Setting the Hair:
Learn how to set hair into styles with the use of Velcro and/or heated rollers

Hairpieces and working with extensions:
Our stylist will help you understand and teach you how to work with hairpieces and creating styles around extensions

Braiding:
Learn how to braid into simple and funky catwalk and photographic styles

Creating Curls:
Learn the tricks of the trade by creating various types of curls with
GHD�s. Learn how to create various types of curls using GHD�s and how to straighten the professional way

Hair up design:
Learn simple hair-up techniques and adapt them to your own personal style

Fashion pony tail:
Learn how to create a fashion catwalk and photographic pony tail

Classic French:
pleat and beehive. Learn how to create a classic French pleat and turn it into a beehive style
Fashion periods: Our stylist will talk through and teach you the uses of fashion periods in fashion today

Fashion editorial:
Our stylist will help you understand working on photographic and fashion magazines shoots, teaching you how to create effective and funky editorial styles

Weddings:
Learn how to create stunning styles for brides

Photographic hair styling:
Learn quick and easy styles when working on photography shoots

Music videos:
Learn how to work with hair on music videos

Celebrity looks:
Learn how to re-create celebrity styles

Advertising:
Working with hair on advertising jobs

Total 6 days
�800













 

 

 






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