Small Classes
One Unique Course
Family Spirit & True Aftercare
Oscar & BAFTA Winning Principal
Guaranteed Paid On-set Work Experience
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100% of our Graduates get paid on set experience.
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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.
Next Makeup Course 23rd April 2019
Our next available course is our 4 month course, starting on 23rd April 2019. You will be taught by Christine Blundell’s team of industry leading tutors, who have a wealth of experience of Film, TV and Theatre Hair & Make up. 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. Christine has extensive knowledge of the industry and will assist in many ways to help the students; from offering on set experience, excellent tutors and networking opportunities, to helping you grasp budget breakdown skills and so much more…
CBMA Update February 2019
Exciting News! Christine is about to embark on a big new and exciting project for HBO.
What this space for more details.
Equally great news for two of our recent graduates who have been accepted by ScreenSkills Trainee Finder Scheme –
Well done Emmalee and Christina!! You both deserve it!
Here is our Testimonial of the Month:
Yolanda Lopez
My experience at Christine Blundell Makeup Academy was super!! I have learned a lot. They provided me with everything I needed, in fact, almost 3 years after finishing my course they still helped me when I needed help, even though I live in Spain!!! Best experience ever, best people you can find. They helped me get a job in a film last year (here in Spain) and this opportunity definitely opened the door for me to work in this industry, here, in my own country where I had no contacts at all! And since that I have to say I am in!! Thank you so much, you guys are big stars. xxx
Upcoming CB*MA Events
Come to our Free Evening Makeup & Casualty Workshop Thursday 16th May 6-9pm & Chat to our Principal & Oscar & BAFTA winner Christine Blundell. Immerse yourself in hands-on Film, TV & Theatre Makeup & Special effects – our Expert Tutors, who are leading UK Makeup Artists and Designers, joined by our ex Graduates and current Students, will show you basic Makeup & Casualty skills. Our Principal, Christine Blundell will also be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the UK Film industry & her amazing career in it.
Attending our popular Day Taster Course on Saturday 23rd March is the best way of getting a feel of our Academy and practise the skills you will be taught at our Hair & Make up courses.
Formal Day taster course teaching will finish at 4pm , after which all Students will have the opportunity to talk to Christine Blundell herself, our Principal and Oscar & BAFTA winning Makeup and Hair Designer and ask her anything they like about the Film Makeup Industry and her career in it.
When you join our family you benefit not only from Christine Blundell’s years of experience in theatre and films, but also from the vast network of media and entertainment contacts she has nurtured, many of whom will be teaching you. In addition, all our courses are run in small groups, allowing us to focus well on each individual student. All our graduates are given the opportunity to join Christine on set, thus allowing them to gain valuable experience after completing their course.
Our Experts
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Creative Director
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Art Director
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Market Analyst
Kalee Wahet
Marketing Head
Seto Rolla
Product Director
Khaal Wastine
Creative Artist
Janvee Kaur
Product Manager
Jane Bullock
Creative Artist
CB*MA Graduates have worked on
To succeed in your career as a film and TV makeup artist you will need real drive and commitment, and at the Chistine Blundell Academy for Film & Television in London (CB*MA) we promise to reward that commitment by offering our industry-leading training courses and the support needed to realise your goals.
The Film & TV industry is an exacting and demanding one, but there are few industries that are ultimately as rewarding and fun as a life spent behind the scenes on a film and TV set helping to bring stories to life on the silver screen (or indeed the plasma screen!).
As long as there have been movie stars, there have have been make up artists making them look good. From the ability to make an actor appear ‘natural’ while on camera, to the ability to transform an actor completely with special effects makeup, the Film & TV makeup artist has long been a treasured part of the entertainment industry as a whole. Part art, part science, the discipline of Film & TV makeup is a wondrous craft where gifted individuals use the infinitely malleable palette of the human face and body to bring dreams into reality.
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, Christine worked on Phantom of the Opera doing prosthetics and went on to work for LWT, gaining invaluable experience on sketch shows and T.V. films.
Her first feature with Mike Leigh was Life is Sweet, which marked the beginning of a long and successful working relationship that has spanned more than 20 years and produced 10 features including Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Drake, Happy-Go- Lucky, Another Year and Mr. Turner, for which she received a BAFTA nomination. Christine won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Topsy Turvy and in 2004 received BAFTA nominations for both Vera Drake and 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.
In addition, Christine finished working on Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo at the end of August last year, a period drama with a cast of over 100 actors, based on events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester. She then started working on Guy Ritchie’s new project “Aladdin” in September 2018, a live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name, which finished filming in January 2018. After a short break, Christine begun filming with Bill Condon on The Good Liar in July 2018, with a stellar cast headed by Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen. August 2018 was all about working on “Aladdin” pick-ups, where Christine was joined on set by a number of our recent CBMA graduates, who were completing their onset work experience.
Testimonials
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