Fashion Hair-Styling Specialist

  Italy

• Milan: 
Milan

Term: Throughout the year 

Description: Fashion Hair Styling 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.

Frequency and Duration:

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

Duration: 57 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

Hair styling tools
Work station organization
Straight hair: brush and hair dryer, flat iron and frisées
Wavy hair: brushes and hair driers, curling iron, diffuser and hot rollers
Raised hair
Extensions
Hair styles for weddings
Updo hairstyles
Extensions
Bridal hair
Photographers influence on hair styles
Fashion hair styles in the: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Images research for a continuous updating
Relationship with client, photographer, stylist and model
Choosing an image or a layout and realizing an hair style
The current fashion hair styles (catwalks and fashion magazines)
Hair styling Trend
Wigs to use in a photographic set or during a catwalk
Portfolio preparation
Agency and portfolio management
The new frontier: computer enhanced hair styling
Visiting professor: a fashion hair stylist freelance
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 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