This 6 day course is suitable for the absolute beginner with no previous experience and there is no entry requirement. 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.

Make up 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 hair styles 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 getting ready
Lean how to section your work, keeping it clean and tidy before beginning your desired style

Blow drying in to styles
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

Hair pieces and working with extensions
Our stylist will help you understand and teach you how to work with hair pieces 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 of creating various types of curls

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 bee hive
Learn how to create a classic French pleat and turn it into a bee hive 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