Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Performance

About this course

Hair, make-up, and prosthetics for performance is a specialist creative discipline that serves the needs of theatre, film, television, and live performance. Unlike commercial hair and beauty, performance-focused work is primarily about the transformation of performers into characters, requiring skills in period and contemporary hair styling, cosmetic make-up, special effects make-up, body painting, prosthetic design and application, and wig making and dressing. These skills must be applied with speed, precision, and consistency within professional production environments, where the demands of camera, lighting, and live performance place specific requirements on the work. At the University of the Arts, London, this three-year full-time programme develops the full range of specialist skills needed to work professionally in performance hair, make-up, and prosthetics. You will develop techn

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