Course summary

Focus on key creative and technical hair and make-up fashion skills with practical workshops, exposure to industry and collaboration to best prepare you for your future career. What can you expect? As a BA (Hons) Hair and Make-up for Fashion student you will be prepared to work as a professional artist within various fashion platforms and contexts. Development of technical skills, industry insights and engagement with emerging fashion contexts will underpin your journey. In a nurturing environment you will develop your experimental design process and practice, engage with critical theory and wider perspectives on contemporary fashion and culture. Analytical and reflective skills are developed and throughout the course an engagement with climate, racial and social justice underpins the curriculum. This allows you to develop into to conceptually aware practitioners and future change makers. Collaboration and networking are at the core of the curriculum, through embedded units the course works closely with the complimentary courses in the Fashion Media Department. Through a combination of individual and collaborative projects, strong industry connections and a focus on employability and enterprise, you will be well prepared for the professional landscape after graduation.

• Hands-on experience: You will have access to industry-standard facilities to develop your technical skills and applications including our specialist workshops and masterclasses.

• Theory and practice: Fuse workshop experiences and research practices to support your future creative journey. You'll be encouraged to develop experimental and conceptual approaches to your process and practice.

• Expert teachers: You'll learn from supportive experts with valuable experience of working in the industry. We will encourage you to become imaginative and critical practitioners that contribute to contemporary discourse and awareness around social, racial and climate injustice.

• Collaborate: Work with students from other courses across LCF on collaborative projects, replicating industry environments and allowing you to build your network and develop your teamworking skills.

• Industry exposure: You'll engage with industry throughout your course, with opportunities for work placements, internships and regular professional collaborations to support your practice, protocol and etiquette.