New workshops from Mary Hillman

janvier 25th, 2010

Afro Gents Hair Cutting and Styling Course
Dates: Sat. 27th.- Sun. 28th Feb. 2010
This is a two day course designed for Make-Up and Hair Artist working in the industry, interested in updating their knowledge and skills in cutting and styling gent’s afro hair.
The course covers all aspects of health and safety, hair types [...]

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Kick-ass reading for those down days…

octobre 12th, 2009

Are you motivated enough to make your way in the film industry ?
This post is about everyone to want to succeed, in any field.
I think it’s a goo read for everyone, you may want to bookmark it et come back to it anytime you feel down because work isn’t coming enough.

Here is the link : [...]

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Imats competition !

octobre 8th, 2009

Each year, Make-up artist magazine hold a student competition at the IMATS, with a theme.
The competition is open to students of a recognized make-up school and to those who have graduated 12 months prior to the competition date. Make-Up Artist will only accept competition entries postmarked Dec. 28.
There’s a beauty/fantasy category and a prosthetics category.

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Salon international

octobre 7, 2009

New edition of Salon exhibition next week. If you want to buy some hair tools and products, that’s where you should go.
As they say “the most inspirational event in world hairdressing“, as there is also demos, education, and tons of stalls with great products. It’s in ExCeL, in London, from 17th – 19th October [...]

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New skillset courses

octobre 5, 2009

AIRBRUSHING TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING MAKE-UP FOR FILM & TV.
Dates: Sat. 7th.. and Sun.8th. Nov 2009
This is a two-day course for Make-up Artists working in the Film Industry who wish to up-date their skills in using airbrushing techniques. Airbrushing is a fast, highly efficient and hygienic way of applying make-up not only for straight glamour [...]

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Filming : the paper side of things.

juillet 8, 2009

(this article is part of the make-up trainee diary started here )
When you start a film, you are given a lot of papers, and you make a lot of your own. Let’s list them and then go back to each one for details.

The script
the one-line schedule
the call sheets
the movements of order
the days-out-of-days
the locations list
the unit [...]

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A trainee’s diary – 2

juillet 1, 2009

At the end of prep time, the last thing I had to do was helping out setting up the make-up bus. That’s really important because the efficiency and comfort of the work will depend on a a good setting, and on your memory of what’s where.
First, the make-up artists decide which station is more convenient [...]

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Diary of a trainee on a feature film

juin 17, 2009

Each week, I will go through an aspect of my work or a step of the filmmaking process. Let’s start at the source : prep time.

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Afro hair show – Alexandra palace

mai 12, 2009

Hi everyone, hope you’re good.
There’s a show about afro hair and beauty at Alexandra palace (north London) the 24 and 25th of may. I haven’t been there before so I don’t know what to expect but what I’ve read on this website : Afro hair show.
It sounds like an IMATS of afro beauty. It can [...]

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makeuptrainee on facebook

avril 26, 2009

Hi everyone,
hope you’re well, keep the mood up despite this bloody recession.
if you’re facebook and like the site, you’ve got a new way to show your interest and spread the love : http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/makeuptrainee.com/
The more people come to the site, the more I can get interesting stuff for you : free products for contests, [...]

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