Graduates Farida & Jess Discuss Working on Bridgerton S3

Christine Blundell make up academy gradutes Farida and Jessi.

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 SFX Designer Kristyan Mallett & Principal Christine

Christine Blundell, principle of CBMA, sat with SFX Designer Kristyan Mallett on a sofa at Christine Blundell Makeup Academy.

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

Christine Blundell Makeup Academy graduate, Tina, applying a theatre wig to an actor.

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 […]

My working relationship with Mike Leigh spans 25 years

Working relationship with Mike Leigh

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

Gal Gadot on Set of Wonder woman Makeup Designer Christine Blundell

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

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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 […]