Our Principal Christine Blundell Talks About Designing Hair & Makeup for ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”🪲
Our Principal’s and Oscar & BAFTA winning Hair & Makeup Designer’s, Christine Blundell’s latest film ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ was released in UK cinemas on the 6th of September this year and it continues to beat box office records in its first month. The sequel of Tim Burton’s 1988 classic was eagerly awaited by fans all over the […]
Q&A with Satinder Chumber: SFX Tutor & BAFTA Nominee
Q-1 What was your pathway into the film industry? I wouldn’t say my pathway was an ideal pathway into the industry, I spent a lot of money and time doing a not so great degree in Special Effects, this was after I went to art college. Me, like many others put a lot of trust […]
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 […]
How To Apply For Taster Day Makeup Course?
Join CB*MA Day Taster Course & Experience a Day @ Our Academy Start Date : TBC Why Should I Join CB*MA Taster Course? Doing our Taster course will give you an opportunity to experience a whole day of teaching at our prestigious London Makeup Academy, feel the atmosphere & learn new skills. It will also […]
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 […]