Essential Hairstyling for MUAs

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Hairstyling and general hair skills are such an important part of a makeup artist’s role, yet can be often overlooked or approached with hesitation. Many MUA's feeling quite nervous about offering them as a service too.

So in this short course will cover the basics and essentials of hair skills as they apply to the working makeup artist, covering the most commonly needed knowledge, skills and kit products.

We break it down in a simple easy way so that by the end of the course, you can feel confident in adding these skills to your services as a MUA.

Even if you are still training & starting out as a Make-Up Artist then this course is also great for building your skills & confidence too as you grow.

The makeup artist who is able to offer a broad range of skills to their client has a higher chance of landing jobs in a competitive industry, particularly within fashion & media.

So it is important to work on those skills at any opportunity – especially when training and working out your place in the industry.

Being a Hair Artist alongside Makeup Artist is a BIG ADVANTAGE in any MUA setting.

From the basics of creating movement with hair & basic styling to avoiding common mistakes, all the way through to more elaborate creative work, by the end of this short course, you should be able to work confidently to build your skills and portfolio in hair styling and earn the ‘H’ in the ‘HMUA’ title!

As always everything is online & broken down in an easy to follow format, with clear info as well as video tutorials, with a practical task to complete at the end & our feedback too.

Course Outline & Breakdown

The Basics -

Looking at hair structure, hair types, brushing, sectioning, positioning as well as health & safety.

Tools & Products -

Essential tools & recommendations to have in your kit as well as products to have & their uses.

Wet Setting, Wig Setting & Working with Rollers

An over view of this type of work which is essential for TV/Film work too, we cover wet setting hair as well as working with wigs & placing in rollers as well.

Blow Drying Hair

An important skill to have over all & we cover the essentials of how to carry out a blow dry successfully. We cover step by step how technique & sectioning to make this simple.

Plaits/Braiding

Step by step tutorials on this popular hair style, again with simple techniques to use in order to build your confidence.

Using Curling Tongs

How to curl hair & work with different types of tongs to create a variety of styles.

Working with Tight Curls, Naturally Curly Hair & Afro Hair

It is important to also feel confident in working with different hair types & the differences in working with curls.

Up-dos/Bridal

How to create up-do's with some simple easy to use techniques & we break down to straight forward styles for you to master in order to build your skills.

Vintage Styles

Creating some 'go-to' & popular Vintage styles such as Pin Curls, Victory Rolls & Fingerwaves.

Finishing Techniques

An essential part of your hair styling is knowing how to set & finish any style off to last well throughout the shoot or event.

Final Task

We set a final practical task to recreate a hair style from a range of looks & submit for final assessment.

Certificate of Completion available at the end with feedback (we are accredited/certified by CPD)