Graduates Farida & Jess Discuss Working on Bridgerton S3

Our lovely graduates Farida and Jess worked on the last ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 series and they were both looking after 2 main characters, Penelope and Kate! What an amazing experience they had, which they shared with us in this video! Watch the video to find out about Farida’s and Jess’s career paths after graduating from […]
Q&A with Jana Carboni, Makeup Designer on the Ridley Scott’s latest film ‘Napoleon’

We were so honoured to have Jana here with us yesterday, who was joined on the sofa by our Tutor and ‘Napoleon’ Prosthetics Supervisor, Satinder Chumber and also our Principal Christine Blundell! So privileged to hear behind the scenes stories from ‘Napoleon’ , that had so many large crowd scenes, multiple cameras and camera and […]
Q&A with Thomas Nellen, Head of Makeup on the latest Martin Scorsese’s film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ & our Principal ,…

It was such an honour to host a Q&A with two leading US and UK film hair & makeup professionals, Thomas Nellen, who was Head of makeup department on the latest Martin Scorsese’s film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and our Principal & Oscar & BAFTA winner, Christine Blundell! We had a whole class of our […]
Q&A with SFX Designer Kristyan Mallett & Principal Christine

Massive thank you to Kristyan Mallett, who is one of the leading UK SFX Designers and also KM Effects SFX Studio Director and owner, for coming to our Academy this week and answering our students questions, in the latest Q&A we did, that was modulated by our Principal, Oscar & BAFTA winner, Christine Blundell. Kristyan has […]
Greetings from Tina The Musical’s Dressing Room

Hi Petar Looking forward to coming to the academy again to learn some new skills! I did want to mention that not long after completing the 4 weeks of Film and Theatre wigs module with CBMA I was super excited to get cracking to find work! My main passion was always Theatre and so I […]
Christine Blundell Chats to BAFTA Winner & Oscar Nominee Nadia Stacey & Our Graduate Guy Common

Learn about all things “Cruella” in our Principal’s interview with Oscar nominated Hair & Makeup Designer Nadia Stacey and Makeup Artist and our graduate Guy Common, who assisted Nadia in creating Emma Stone’s iconic Cruella looks.
My working relationship with Mike Leigh spans 25 years

As many people know, Mike Leigh never has a script. Mike will improvise and workshop the actors to create the characters and their relationships. In order for the HODs to gather the information they need, we will then all sit down with Mike and the actor to discuss each character in depth. Mike’s guidance to […]
Memories And Learning On Our Makeup Courses

I was searching for notes on my computer and stumbled on saved blogs from many years gone by. They were wonderful to read and also quite upsetting as to how long we have been teaching for and how old I am getting! One blog was about the time “One Direction” came to the academy as […]
BAFTA Scholarship awarded to our January 4 Month course student

We are extremely proud to announce that Alissa Harvey, who currently works as a Glow Guide for BECCA Cosmetics, has received this year’s BAFTA REUBEN Scholarship for a place at our January 2021 Four Month Film & TV Hair & Makeup course. Alissa said: “Being awarded a scholarship from BAFTA feels so surreal. To be […]
Christine’s Latest Interview for London’s Metro newspaper tells all about the highs and lows in the life of an award- winning Film & TV Makeup Designer
The Oscar and Bafta winner, 58, on trying not to throw up on Brad Pitt and going to the pub with Hugh Grant dressed as a tramp Travelling the world as a make-up artist on some of the biggest films ever made sounds like a dream job. Was it yours? No, I always wanted to […]