Makeup School | The Iver Make Up Academy

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Courses in Make-up & Hair for TV Film Fashion and Beauty

Learn the insider knowledge you need to carve a successful career as a professional make-up artist with our industry recognised hair & make-up courses.

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Where we are / What's here

13/07/2017

The Iver Make-Up Academy is based at Pinewood Studios which is just outside Uxbridge, West London at the end of the Piccadilly and Metropolitan tube lines of the London Underground. A free shuttle bus operates Monday to Friday from Uxbridge, West Ruislip tube (Central Line) , and Gerrards Cross and Slough train station. There is also pa...

My First Job In Film

07/07/2017

A group of members from My First Job In Film attended the organisation’s first ever Academy day earlier this month in Soho, benefiting from one-to-one career advice and a rare opportunity to take part in an intimate Q&A session with not one but two UK award-winning film producers. My First Job In Film is the UK’s largest online com...

Jenny Watson - Graduate of The Iver Make-Up Academy speaks to Warpaint Magazine April 2017

22/05/2017

WP: What inspired you to get into make-up? JW: I have always been interested in hair and make-up, especially in TV and film as you are helping to create a character. You can completely reinvent a person by making the subtlest changes to a character’s hair and make-up and I love that! I never really thought of it as being a career at fir...

Not going to university - know your options

04/05/2017

Sir Richard Branson, Jamie Oliver and Lord Alan Sugar all left school at the age of 16. Not having a degree didn't stop them – so why should it stop you? Should I go to University? While some careers require a degree, such as medicine, there are plenty that don't. Whilst doing a degree may demonstrate a certain level of academic achievem...

Romaine Bowman

30/03/2017

This week our students reaped the benefits of tutoring by wig expert and make up artist Romain Bowman. Romain has a love of art and creating - sculpting hair and special FX and has years of experience in TV, Film and Theatre. Romaine with one of her wigs "I get paid to do a job I love. I can be creative and get to work with amazing pe...

Tutor Jane Maier - My journey

09/03/2017

I was persuaded by my father to go to university rather than art college, even though art was my passion. With my English degree, advertising and marketing was an obvious career choice, but over the years I grew increasingly frustrated at always selling other people's creativity and not being allowed to be creative at work myself. My hob...

Director - Marcus DF White

01/03/2017

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Marcus DF White is our go to man for filming week here at The Iver Make Up Academy. Here's a little bit about him. BAFTA and RTS nominated and Award winning Director Marcus had his first interview with the BBC when he was thirteen years old. BAFTA Award winning Director Marcus DF White studied Drama at the Royal Cons...

Professional Beauty - The Iver Make Up Academy Stand 74

27/02/2017

To Professional Beauty at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands. The Iver Make Up Academy spent two days (Sunday/Monday) at stand 74, fortuitously located opposite the Warpaint live stage. We were perfectly placed for a day of demos, glitter and glam. Tutor Jane Maier was up on the live stage at 12.15 to talk through a demo of 'a p...

Off to Leon...

22/02/2017

Tutor Christine Vidler took 13 students along to make up the staff for the launch party of a special new restaurant. Fast food chain Leon were launching their latest branch on Shaftesbury Avenue in the heart of London’s West End. The staff are only hired if they can sing and dance and will be able to take time off for auditions so will...

Opera Wig Masterclass - Pam Lamb

22/02/2017

Pam Lamb visited our students at The Iver Academy for an Opera Wig Masterclass. Pam started life in the theatre as a classically trained ballet dancer with Sadlers Wells and the Scottish National Ballet. As she always used make up and wigs it seemed a natural career change when the time came. From on stage to back stage. As well a...