• Importance of working in a team
• Layout of make-up kit and basic hygiene
• Use of tools, products and cleaning materials
• Study of facial anatomy
• Sketching and drawing
• Principles of lighting and shading in make-up
• Study of individual face shapes and skin types
• Colour mixing and blending
• Application and removal of bases, cream, liquid, powder, pancake and other products
• Make-up for day and evening
• Bridal make-up
• Make-up for video, T.V., film and photographic
• Make-up for colour and black and white photography
• Fantasy face painting

• HD camera airbrushing
• Fashion photographic make-up for editorial
• Designer make-up for the catwalk
• Minimalist make-up for fashion shoots
• Perfecting techniques for lips, eyes and cheeks
• Period make-up adapted for "now"
• Skin polishing
• Designing your own "signature" look
• Avant garde

• Face shaping, contouring and full corrective make-up
• Application of make-up for men and children for commercials, catalogue shoots, T.V. and film
• Shading and highlighting techniques
• Period make-up for T.V., film and theatre
• Fitting and trimming false eye lashes
• Camouflage make-up
  

• Health and safety
• Use of tools
• Sectioning and cutting female hair
• Cutting male hair
• Trimming long hair
• Use of products
  

• Cutting and setting hair
• Electrical equipment; use of tongs, straightener, hot rollers, etc
• Different pattern roller settings
• Dressing long hair
• Fashion looks for editorial
• Avant garde
  

• Blocking and cleaning wigs
• Researching period styles
• Dressing both wigs and own hair
• Hair - Medieval - 19th Century
• Hair dressing - Highlighting 20th century
• Cleaning, tonging and applying facial hair
  

• Applying bruises, grazes, cuts and scratches
• Scars, stitched wounds, open wounds and blood effects
• Burns of all types (1st to 3rd degree), scalding and electrical burns
• Continuity over time, dirt, sweat and tears
• Spots, diseases, blisters and warts
• Student project day - re-creating skills learned into visually accurate casualty victim
  

• Application of various body painting products, sponging and brush work
• Researching and developing designs
• Use of air brush - achieving finished effects
• Painting free-hand, illusion, shading and blending
• Cutting stencils
• Executing final design to commercial standard
  

• Gender change - Female/male including application of hair stubble
• Ageing - painted and applied latex - to include hands
• Race change using camouflage techniques to lighten from dark and darken from light skin tones
• Male/female - natural look progressing to glamorous
• Accurate "look-a-like"; student's own research, finding reference picture - contemporary or historical.
  

• Measuring head for bald cap, making pattern to fit individual head size, transferring to block
• Making bald cap using cap plastic
• Designing, planning and preparing both realistic and fantasy final effect, e.g. fashion, science fiction, ageing, etc
• Application of bald cap, blending edge, materials and techniques to match skin tone, natural look
• Develop through to "fantasy" subject, researched, designed by student
  

• Understand and execute life casting technique
• Mould making and casting
• Sculpting and learning the different processes and materials involved in prosthetic making
• Removing appliance from mould
• Application of pieces
• Colouring a prosthetic - using a variety of make-up products
• Final design - student's own
  

These two weeks combine bald cap making and producing, making and applying a prosthetic piece

• Straight and corrective make-up and hair (complete look)
• Period make-up and hair (complete look)
• Speed work to brief - scripts supplied
• Portfolio building
• Appropriate steps to develop work contacts