Fashion Make-Up Specialist

  Italy

• Milan: 
Milan

Term: Throughout the year 

Description: Fashion Make up Specialist provides a full education strictly focused on the beauty area for fashion. The primary aim of the course is to train and foster high quality professionals, giving them the chance to develop their abilities for shootings, editorials, catwalks, videos, entertainment. The complete program is divided into three modules:

Fundamental. The program aimed at beginners and focused on all the basic skills that are required in order to work: tools, shapes, methods of application, colour schemes, analysis of the frame.

Advanced. A thorough study of the styles and trends throughout the 20th century and still relevant today, in order to provide students with a much needed cultural background for the reinvention of concepts, suggestions and shapes in their work.

Trend. Four shootings, four different concepts. A full immersion into practice for the creation of a photographic book with professional models. Students are committed to working in professional teams, displaying their own creativity and putting their technical skills to the best advantage.

The minimum requirement to participate is to be at least 18 years of age.

Frequency and Duration:

The student attends lessons in fixed hours. The number of students accepted is limited and applications can be submitted until classes are full.

Duration: 57 consecutive days
Total hours: 324 hours
Time: 9.30-12.30 a.m. / 2.00-5.00 p.m.
Attendance: from Monday to Friday

The minimum requirement to participate is to be at least 18 years of age.

Highlights: Course Program:
Make-up tools and make-up station
Preparation for make-up practice
Chromatology and colors theory
The base, foundation and correctors
Morpho-psychology
Harmonies
The eye, eye corrections and finishing
Make-up for different parts of the face: cheekbone, cheek, nose, chin and mouth
Make-up for all ages
Visiting professor: cosmetic consultant
Visiting professor: use of air-brush in make-up
Artificial eyelashes
Make-up for wedding
Ethnic make-up
Visiting professor: tattoo make-up
Visiting professor: Special effects
History of make-up
The 900: 1920 and black and white cinema
Make-up history: the Thirties, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo
Make-up history: the Forties, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth
Make-up history: the Fifties, Marilyn Monroe
Make-up history: the Sixties, Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot
Make-up history: the Seventies, The new superstars Twiggy, Weruscka
Make-up history: the Eighties and Nineties, Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer
Makeup for fashion shows and photography
The new frontiers of computer enhanced beauty
Photography makeup project: Makeup for the runway
Cosmetic campaign photography project
Chromatic effect photography project
Photographic make-up: the doll
Photographic make-up: the graphics
Visiting professor: Freelance make-up artist
Photographic make-up: dramatic effect
Portfolio presentation and building agency contacts
Final exam

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: Enrollment fee: 600 Euro (UE) / 700 Euro (Non UE); Tution fee: 6900 Euro

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 8-12

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

UpToDate Fashion Academy's Mission Statement: Uptodate Fashion Academy was established with the basic aim of developing a high quality educational project focused on specific and strongly sought-after branches of the fashion business. Since then, Uptodate has developed and specialized on markedly innovative sides of the fashion business, quickly building up a reputation as a distinguished, unique player in the Milan fashion scene and attracting an increasingly large international audience. The Academy's vision is to give untrained students the chance to turn into high qualified professionals thanks to intensive, full time programs steadily connected to the strongest demands of the current fashion business. Located in a two storey facility in the very heart of Milan, close to the major fashion streets of the city, Uptodate Fashion Academy relies upon a stunning location, internationally renowned teachers, a special and certified didactic method and a strong job placement service in order to provide students with the highest level of quality to study and learn fashion in Milan.

Year Founded: 2001