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The 4 Month Hair & Makeup course brochure

CB*MA's Director Christine Blundell's Amazing Film Biography

Christine first got involved in hair and make up when styling bands in the late ‘70s and working in a salon in Kensington Market. She went on to open her own hairdressing salon, which she ran successfully for 4 years and then embarked on an intensive three-month make-up course. After completing the course, her first main job after studying was working on the Phantom of the Opera doing prosthetics, which lasted until a phone call took her off to the Isle of Man to help out cutting hundreds of extras' hair into a short back and sides. It was there that she met with the L.W.T make up and hair team that continued to employ Chris on future productions, gaining invaluable knowledge in sketch shows and T.V Films.Another phone call, this time to help on Mike Leigh’s new film, "Life is Sweet", moved Chris's career more into film and this also started a long and successful working relationship with Mike Leigh, resulting in two BAFTA nominations: for "Topsy Turvy" which Christine won and "Vera Drake". Later she would win the Oscar for the same film. That same year she won Woman of the year award, as well as Fellowship of Hairdressing for work on the "Full Monty" and a Third BAFTA nomination for "Finding Neverland".

Christine’s other varied film credits include The Full Monty, Closer, The Constant Gardener, Casino Royale, Eastern Promises, Sherlock Holmes, Trance, About Time and The Fifth Estate.

More recently, Christine has worked on Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Brian Helgeland’s Legend, Michael Grandage’s Genius, Paddington 2 Guy Ritchie’s Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur and Wonder Woman.

Christine has just finished working on Mike Leigh’s new filmPeterloo, a period drama with a cast of over 100 actors, basedon events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally atSt Peter’s Field in Manchester. She is now working on GuyRitchie’s new project "Aladdin", a live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.

Even though Christine oversees her successful Hair &Make up Academy, she averages 3 films a year, too!!

You will begin to understand teamwork!All products undertaken in ‘Boot Camp’ will be timed to reproduce the pressure of the time and financial limitations of a production. This also forces the students to plan and prioritise. Until this point, the students have been learning in their own time. Now their time is ours, and they will have to have their makeups ‘camera ready’ when we need them.

Enough of the rules. Let the show begin!

Who are we?

The Christine Blundell Make-up Academy is the only Make-up school in the UK run by an Oscar & BAFTA winning Make-up Designer actively working in the industry. All our Tutors currently work as professional Film, TV & Theatre Make-up Artists & Designers. Now in its 11th year, our Academy nurtures a true Family spirit & Aftercare and we only run one Make-up course at any one time, with the maximum class size of 14 students. In addition, all our graduates are given the opportunity to join Christine on set, gaining valuable experience after completing their course.

CB*MA was founded in 2006 by Academy Award-winning hair and make-up designer, Christine Blundell, who wanted to share her experience and knowledge accumulated in over two decades of working on Film, TV and Theatre productions. Together with School Director, Petar Agbaba , we are here to ensure that your course runs smoothly and effectively.

Christine was inspired to create the school because she felt that in the training being provided in the UK, there was a lack of key skills. She has therefore designed her courses to ensure that every student graduating from CB*MA is at an Industry-recognised level for those beginning their career.

Her extensive knowledge of the industry has enabled her to hand-pick your team of excellent Tutors, all of whom continue to work regularly in the business and keep abreast of new techniques and skills, through constant collaboration with fellow Film and TV Makeup professionals.

We promise you not just a superb technical grounding but also an insight into the industry, based on the experiences of those who have felt the pressures of real deadlines and developed the tricks for managing the day-to-day realities of applying make-up and styling hair backstage, or on a bustling, often chaotic film set.

Academy Award (Oscar), 2000 presented by Toby Maguire. Trevor Proud also received an Oscar for being Christine's main assistant on Topsy Turvy.

*All Aspects of Make up - 3 Weeks

- Understanding Media Makeup - 1 Week

Learn about skin tones, bases, powders concealers, eye shapes, eyebrows, lip shapes, facial contouring and Beauty make up.

- Period Makeup - 2 Days

A period production has to have accurate, factual period makeup and hair true to its time, and we teach the skills in this module

- Darker Skin Tones - 2 Days: Working on various skin tones- Mature Skin - 1 Day- Facial Contouring - 2 Days

- Fashion Makeup - 3 DaysCovering different looks for fashion, editorial and catwalk,emphasising speed and creativity alongside precision makeupskills.

- Basic Hair - 1 Week

Hair Cutting and StylingBasic cutting and sectioning of hair, blow-drying, setting hair, using rollers, and laying the groundwork for period styles and looks

- Wig Skills/Period hair - 2 Weeks

Learning how to prepare hair and how to wrap and measure for a wig. We teach wig blocking and application, using hairpieces and wefts, and general wig care

- Barbering - 1 Week

The basic skills for the essentials of cutting men's hair, layering and beard shaping.

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Theatre - 2 Weeks

Covers theatrical makeup and the differences between that and film. Creating a character through make up wigs, bald caps and other techniques.

Facial Hair - 1 Week

Laying on facial hair with loose hair. Measuring actors for making facial hair. Applying beards, moustache, eyebrows and sideburns. Knotting facial hair.

*Understanding Film TV & Additional Skills - 2 Weeks

- Airbrushing - 2 DaysLearning the techniques of airbrushing which can be used for HD films, fashion and beauty and prosthetic effects and colouring.

- Script Breakdown - 1 Day: Understanding a script is not filmed in sequence.- Script Continuity - 1 Day: The importance of continuity and how to do it.- Breaking down a character to convince - 1 Day- Recapping on weak areas / timing Makeup and Prep - 1 Week

*Boot Camp - 1 Week

The purpose of this last week of your time at CB*MA is to bring together all of the processes, techniques and skills of the entire course, to help you the student to leave the Academy as a rounded, confident and capable trainee Makeup artist.

4 Month Hair & Makeup Course Weekly Breakdown 4 Month Hair & Makeup Course Weekly Breakdown

* Special Effects - 3 Weeks

- Casualty - 1 Week

We teach the essential skills for making wounds, colouringand applying them to the skin. Effects like burns, diseasesskin conditions are also in this module.As well as creating bruising, black eyes, old scars and ageing.

- Prosthetics - 2 Weeks

The course covers sculpting and molding prosthetic pieces using silicone andgelatine and learning colouring and application techniques. Face casting onwhich to sculpt pieces, applying them for a complete effects makeup look.

*Theatre & Male Grooming - 3 Weeks

*Basic Hair, Wigs & Barbering - 4 Weeks

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UNDERSTANDING MEDIA MAKE-UP - 1 WEEK

Day 1•Prepping the skin for makeup.•What products to use on oily/dry and neutral skin type.•Foundation Cream/Base The different types available and which one is usedfor which skin type and skin tone.•Concealer: The different types that are available and when and where touse them.•Shading and Highlighting: When to use and demonstration given.•Face Powder: The different types of powder available and when and whereto use them.

Day 2•Pencil: When to use it and at what stage it should be used.•Eyeliner: What effects can be achieved for different makeups.•Mascara: The correct way to apply mascara.•Shaping, shading and contouring.

Day 3•Lips, prepping lips, application and corrective use of lipstick.•Skin tones.•Eye shadow, prepping the eye, the use of matt and iridescent whenand where not to use it.•Eyelashes, full eyelashes and when to use them.•Shortcuts, top tips to assist a makeup artist in a problem situation.

Day 4

•Individual eyelashes: When to use them and what effect can be achieved.•Eyebrows: When and when not to do them. Corrective and other ways todo eyebrows and what look can be achieved.

•Socket Lines, the look achieved, when to and not to do it.•Films sets, Crowd rooms and understanding timing.

Day 5•Create design from makeup brief.•Timed makeup•Critique and discussion.

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FASHION MAKEUP - 3 DAYS

DAY 1 •Fashion and Beauty - Catwalk Focus & Trends etc•Clean Beauty•Catwalk trends from international Fashion Weeks

DAY 2 •Fashion and Beauty - More intense and smokey looks•Dramatic beauty•Night time glamour•Mood boards

DAY 3 •Global Beauty, with a range of multi-ethnic models coming in•Skin tones of Global beauty•Flawless base& Pigmentations•Colour absorption and reflection

DAY 4 •Looking at different Period Makeup: 18th and 19thcentury, also early 20th century (Edwardian)

•Covering a selection of 20th century looks: 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s,60s

PERIOD MAKEUP - 2 DAYS

DAY 5

DARKER SKIN TONES - 2 DAYS

DAY 1 • Understanding the basics of choosing / applying makeup todarker skin tones

DAY 2 • Matching products to different skin types and tones and creatingdifferent looks

DAY 1

FACIAL CONTOURING - 2 DAYS

• Facial contouring - Basic rules and techniquesDAY 2

• Creating different looks using various Facial contouring techniques

MATURE SKIN - 1 DAY

DAY 1 • Learning how to apply Makeup to mature skin

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BASIC HAIR - HAIR CUTTING & STYLING - 1 WEEK

Day 1Kit: Equipment and productsHair types and texturesAreas of the headHair growth patternsFace shapesDiseases and disorders of the hair and scalpHairdressing as a jobOne length haircutUsing tongs, hot sticks and hairnets, Victorian bun and ringlets

Day 2Using head sheetsSquare layered haircutBlow drying, 90’s hairstyleNatural hair, hair up

Day 3Long bob with a fringeUsing heated rollers, 60’s style

Day 4Men’s grooming, with and without electricalMen's haircut

Day 5Various demonstrations and free day for practice

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WIGS - WEEK 1

Day 1:

• Learning about hair wraps and cling wraps• Learning about the head: its shape and understanding how to measure• Pin curling a whole head and placing a wig

Day 2

• Padding out the block• Blocking up a wig• Washing a wig

Day 3• Set a wig for an Edwardian style

Day 4 • Finish dressing out, pin curl• Pin curl• Full make up and putting wig on

Day 5• Knotting

WIGS - WEEK 2

Day 1:• Kit: Equipment and products• Different types of wigs, wig structures, hair and hairpieces.• Choosing wigs and blocks for the week’s work.• Dressing a ‘natural’ looking wig.

Day 2

• Creating a waved style. Either 1930’s, 40’s or 50’s• Marilyn Monroe / or Land Girls

Day 3• Creating a 1870’s style• Using padding and nets• Shape rather than detail, silhouette

Day 4 • Working with Yak wigs to create a late 18th century look.(Think Dangerous liaison, Marie Antoinette and the Duchess.)

Day 5• Choosing a style that will suite each others’ hair and adapting

the style to the person.• Using products• Discuss why the style was chosen and the products used

BARBERING - 1 WEEK

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Day 1Kit LayoutHealth & SafetyUse of Products - Breaking Down /Creating Dirty Hair One Length HaircutDress out - FopBeard shaping - Round/Angled/PointedSet/Tong/DressMoustache shaping - create a handlebar moustache Set/tong/Dress Square LayersTongDress out - Medieval

Day 2Clipper Handling/Health & SafetyShorter Beard Shaping - using ClippersChoose a beard shape & create & Dress itMoustache shaping- using Scissors/ClippersChoose a moustache shape Create & Dress it- using TongsLong Male BobHot StickDress out - Oscar Wilde

Day 3Shave off Beard/Moustache1940's - Short BackDress out 1940's Use of Dressing products1930's - Short/ Back/SidesDress out 1930's1920's MilitaryDress out 1920's

Day 4WORK EXPERIENCE DAYWATCH / LEARN/ WRITE ABOUT YOUR DAY

Day 5Barbershop scenarioWORKING ON MALE MODELSUsing all skills learnt this weekCovering all aspects of Health & SafetyFull client consultation

CASUALTY WEEK - 1 WEEK

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MONDAY:MorningObservations & Introduction. The importance of Research & Preparation, Images & Reference. Experimenting with materials1. Injury / Blunt force trauma & Inflicted Wounds – what is the cause, what is the situa- tion, how will they heal?2. Skin Disorders and scars – cause, position and changes over time- Discussion about Colouration and translucency Sculpting and textures- Introduction to the grease and illustrator/ alcohol based palettes & inks1. Light and Shade2. Redness & swelling3. Colour mixing4. Different skin colours/ ethnicitiesBy applying materials to skin, shaping it and colouring it, many special effects can beachieved for casualty and injury.1. Apply and building up the material to create the 3D effect – basics of wax, latex, &

scar materials. And dry skin textures. Sealors & Fixiers2. Finishing the effect with colour and texture. Different techniques

Lots of things to think about before creating an effect:= Wounds / cuts/ Bullet wounds / swelling & redness –different situationsAfternoon

- Students to pair up and practise effects based on this morning session. Concentratingon direct sculpting, texture and colour- Demonstrate sweat, sheen, tears (tear stick & tear blower), eye redness & eyedefinition. Discussion about eyeblood and contact lenses

TUESDAY: Morning1. Broken nose and minor bone shading & highlighting2. Black eye colouring techniques, reel, grease palette, gels, sheen. Birthmarks & Port

wine stains3. Tooth decay, nicotine stains - tooth enamel4. Cut lips, cold sores, boils and skin breakouts, minor scars – tuplast, collodian & other

scar materialsAfternoon - Students practise on each other. Concentrating on shading and colouring with brokenbones and black eyes and/ or bruising

- Demonstrate illness, paleness, gauntness. Discussion of Death colouration, changeover time. Discussion of disease, and shock.

WEDNESDAY: Morning1. Demonstrate scrapes & grazes: Alcohol based palettes, grease paint, fresh scab & drying

blood. Using black mesh sponge, toothbrushes, & painting.2. Stitches & perforations: wax or bondo3. Practising vein colours, broken veins, pin pricks, track marks, whipping & shackle marks

1. Students to pair up and practise on each other to do a makeup including hands and armswith techniques learnt from last 3 days

2. Demonstrate covering up tattoos and applying D32, dermacolour, powder, and alcoholbased palettes & airbrushing

THURSDAY: Morning1. Using 3rd Degree: Cut throat or laceration, & slit wrists2. Working with blood – how do people bleed? Venus, arterial and superficial bleeding.

Changes over time, layering and playing with different products – fresh, congealed, scabblood, dried & old

Afternoon - Students to play with blood effects and materials- Students to create a deep wound with blood effects and colouration using 3rd Degree

FRIDAY:Morning1.Sunburn & weathering: using grease & creams, Gels, Alcohol based palettes, airbrushing. Washing techniques for face & body2.Dirt: Approaches to dirtying down and distressing. Different materials: cream and

grease, supra & aquacolor, alcohol palettes and spray ons, dust & dirt powders, oils andsheen or matte effects. Layering

Afternoon - Students practise combined minor burns and weathering/ dirtying down effects- Introduction & Demonstraton to 1st degree 2nd degree 3rd degree burns. Gelatine,fish paper, gaf quat, colouration, latex, cotton wool, tissue, & blood work

- End of week recap/ Questions

Afternoon

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PROSTHETICS - WEEK 1

DAY 1 • Show the students examples of different materials used: i.e. gelatine, foam, latex,silicone prosthetics. Discussed the pros and cons of each “the best tools for the job”.

• Demonstration how to sculpt and texture a basic wound on a flat board in plastilene.Stressed the importance of the blending edge and how to mould it in silicone (floodmould).

• The students will sculpt their own wounds in plastilene, textured and then mouldedthem in silicone.

DAY 2 • Students will learn how to heat gelatine properly in the microwave.• How to fill their own silicone moulds using the scrape method.• Demonstration how to apply gelatine prosthetic and how to colour it and blend it intothe actor’s skin.

• Students will applying and colour their own prosthetic wounds.• Students all get life casts

DAY 3 • Refine second sculpts from what they learnt.• Show the students how to apply colour and a dress a wound with blood and how to re- move gelatine prosthetic safely.• Student’s life-cast each other’s faces, with supervision, stressing the importance ofsafety.

• Explain how to talk and deal with people who are nervous, the importance of touch andreassurance.

• Learn how to mix plaster properly and fill their own head casts.DAY 4• Demonstration how to open their life cats properly and how to clean up their plasterheads.

• Students to apply colour to their wound prosthetics and how to dress with blood realisti- cally?• Explanation of the importance of using proper reference material when creating andmak-ing – up prosthetics, realism.

• Students start sculpting new wounds, improving the edges.• Students start sculpting noses or subtle prosthetics on their own life casts.

DAY 5 • Students to stick on wounds and colour them.• Students sculpt noses, blocking out, the sculpt first on their plaster life- casts,“blending edges” of prosthetics properly.

• Explanation - the importance of texture in prosthetics. The cutting edge, how to edgeup correctly.

• Creating keys/ touch down on their plaster life casts.

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PROSTHETICS - WEEK 2

DAY 1 • Finish off edging up the noses.• “Walling up” moulds and pouring their plasters.• Make a two piece plaster mould of their nose sculpts• Students to apply their own second sculpted wound to each other.• Demonstration - getting rid of edges, colouration, blending into the skin and colouringthe actual wound and dressing with blood.

• Different ways of painting/ making up prosthetics.• Clips on DVD of various films I’ve worked on and how to achieve the effects with photo- graphs of all the stages so they can relate to it, (it’s not Hollywood, its Hatfield!)

DAY 2 • Sculpting eye bags on the flat.• Opening plaster nose moulds – cleaning out.• Filling the plaster nose moulds with gelatine correctly.• Applying the prosthetic noses• Intrinsic colouring of gelatine

DAY 3 • Demonstration - gelatine eye bag application and safety round the actors eyes• Fill eye bag moulds with gelatine (scrape method).• Students apply eye bags to each other.• Colouring, aging and removing them properly.• Demonstration - how to make bald caps with cap plastic.• Students start to make them.

DAY 4 • Old age stipple demonstration, upper eye lid and lower eye lid, neck and forehead• Students age their hands with colour first, then old age stipple over the top in layers• Make bald caps

DAY 5 • Students decide what they would like to do regarding prosthetics for the day.• Giving them the opportunity to cover things again or create new prosthetics for the day.• Sculpt new improved eye bags or cheeks and mould again.• New prosthetics to each other and colour them.

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THEATRE - WEEK 1

DAY 1 • Intro about Theatre makeup• Making bald caps (this is an on going project as they will need a few

throughout the weeks)• Demos:

o How to block a wigo How to wash it

• Pincurl to prep for wig• Wrapping hair to prep for wig• Stocking cap

DAY 2 • Wig dressing – an overview of the various styles using skills forpreparation learned on Day 1.

DAY 3 • Adding layers to bald cap• Characterisation in Theatre – Demo and then pair work• Adding more layers to bald cap

DAY 4 • Adding layers to bald cap• 3 part silicone Project

DAY 5• Museum visit – usually the national Portrait Gallery to look at painting:light and shading and ageing, and how it is communicated. We combinethis with a quiz to support the learning.

• Visit to a wig room with one of our partner tutors – the Royal OperaHouse, English National Opera, and the National Theatre for a tour.

THEATRE - WEEK 2

DAY 1 • Bald cap layers• On Stage effects – dramatic use of sick, sweat, blood etc.

• Introduction to wig Making – skills involving knotting on lace – the products used.

DAY 3 • Ballet cap layers!

o ballet bunoFrench pleatoballet twistohow to pin securelyoinvisible net

What is different when your artist has to dance?

DAY 4 • Applying Bald Cap• Ageing makeup for theatre.(Incorporating feedback from gallery about ageing, shading, colouring etc)

DAY 5 • Male make-up for stage, how to cross gender; thinking about the face in a differentway. If there is time at the end of the day you will do a quick change practice / gamewhen the students have to prep the hair and put a wig on and a bit of costume andthen we re-create a quick change area with low lighting and cramped conditions andthen add another costume and put on the wig again. We tend to time it and it becomesa bit of a race.

DAY 2

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FACIAL HAIR

DAY 1- •Demo -- take a shape and explain about growth of hair, etc. What to instruct thebeard maker when sending off shape.•Students practice taking shapes (do a couple).•Demo – mixing hair hackle and hand. Talk about different colours of hair and fa-cial hair – show reference.•If time : stubble demo and practice.

DAY 2- •Stubble practice•Blocking Demo•Blocking practice•Tonging Demo•Tonging Practice•Students to choose full beard and mustaches that they will apply the followingday.

DAY 3- •Demo – apply sideburns and take off•Students practice, applying undressed sideburns, then take them off, clean them,dress them and re-apply (to see the importance of all the preparation.)•Full beard application demo.•Afternoon – student apply yesterday’s full beards and mustaches.

DAY 4- •Laying on Demo•Students practice laying on blocks and tonging.•Eyebrow demo and then students practice this.

DAY 5- •Take a shape again, to see the difference to the 1st day shape.•Students choose full set of facial and make it work! Match to sides, and lay onwhere needed, etc.•Remove, clean and redress all facial•If time students choose a period and choose facial, dress it and put it on.

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AIRBRUSHING , SCRIPT BREAKDOWN, CONTINUITY AND BREAKING DOWN A CHARACTER.

Day 1: Airbrushing • Basic elements of an airbrush - equipment overview,• How to look after your gun and compressor,• Understanding pressure and health and safety,• Basic application techniques for TV and Film,• Basic application techniques for beauty and bridal,• Experimenting with texture - face and body and Strobe creme through

the gun.

Day 2: Airbrushing

• Creating a tattoo with hand made stencil - stencil work and understandinglayering,

• Cutting techniques, positive and negative elements of your stencil,• Understanding application of colour for stencil work,• Detail work and hand painting with stencil formula

• Experimenting with shade and light, gradient work,

Day 3: Script breakdown• Understanding a script is not filmed in sequence.

Day 4: Continuity• The importance of continuity and how to do it

Day 5: Character break down

RECAPPING - 1 WEEK

• Recapping on weak areas

• Timing Makeup and prep

BOOTCAMP WEEK

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The purpose of this last week of your time at CB*MA is to bring together all of the processes, techniques and theories of the entire course, to enable you, the student, to leave the school as a rounded, confident and capable trainee Makeup artist. The student must be ready and able to accept any brief, time constraint or variation given to them, and still produce work to the standard that CB*MA has come to accept from their students.

You will, in effect, become our crew. We will treat you as fully functioning members of a Makeup team and expect you to quickly and competently fulfill any brief that we set you.You will begin to understand team work!

All products undertaken in ‘Bootcamp’ will be timed to repro-duce the pressure of the time and financial limitations of a pro-duction. This also forces the students to plan and prioritise. Until this point, the students have been learning in their own time. Now their time is ours and they will have to have their make-ups ‘camera ready’ when we need them.

During this last week, we will have a professional photographer who will come in and take photos of your work on a good background, so you then have some good quality pic-tures to take away and add to your portfolio.

DATES & PRICES

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4 MONTH HAIR & MAKEUP COURSE

This 16 week make up course provides the firm foundation of core skills you will need in which ever Makeup career you wish to pursue, but it also provides extra time to appreciate the detail and grasp the special techniques required in pe-riod and historical work. In particular we will focus on understanding the evolution of different hairstyles over the centuries and learning how to successfully recreate them.

Course DatesFOUR MONTH COURSE – January to AprilFOUR MONTH COURSE – April to AugustFOUR MONTH COURSE – September to December

Course Fee

The 4 Month Hair & Makeup Course - Total Cost - £12,280 (incl. VAT)

What does this include?This includes a professional kit as well as access to our stock of leading brand products such as MAC, Chanel and Illamasqua. All materials at the school are at your disposal. Remember: this will be your home for the duration of the course. There will be no need to spend another penny on supplies.

If you are interested in joining our 4 Month Hair & Make-up course, then please contact us on 020 7485 4000 or email us at cbma@cbmacademy.com.