Student applies make-up to a face. It covers the edges of a fan of bank notes that curve around the eyebrow and down the cheek making it look like the money is embedded in the face

Media Make-up, Special Effects & Hair Design

If you are creative and dream of working in the fashion, photography, theatre, film, TV or cosmetics industries, creating striking looks, then this could be for you.

There are lots of jobs in this industry and you can specialise to work as a make-up artist (MUA) in theatres, for TV programmes and Films, make-up for catwalks and fashion campaigns, freelance work and much more.

Work In

Fashion

Film, TV & Theatre

Photography

Our Courses

Face with prosthetic mouse nose and teeth with make-up artist using make-up to blend onto the face

Level 3 Media Make-up, Special Effects & Hair Design

Other Areas of Interest

Student gives an electrical facial, using electrodes with wires that connect to a machine in the background. The client lays, relaxed, on a therapy couch covered in a towl

Beauty

Student wearing a plastic apron and gloves uses a paddle and brush to colour a client’s hair

Hairdressing & Barbering

Close-up of a hand with a paint brush. Working on a canvas with outlines drawn of flowers and a butterfly obscuring the top half of a face, painting one of the flowers pink

Art, Design & Photography