For our full time graduates of which we hand pick onlyh ten per year, we have discovered the HMA network was intimate enough to simply be there for you online if you have a question. This way it is personal to you, just simply email us with your query, again with a stricly capped student intake of just 10 full time graduates a year, we can do this. We will guide you into the right direction but do remember we cannot do it all for you. As an HMA graduate you are one of a select few and we have all the more time for you. Once you graduate we remain on hand to advise you when needed on, rates, accounts, creating your professonal identitiy. just email us..

HMA Equipment and Kit Advice

We will supply you with a list of our artists key recommendations. This ensures that you do not buy products that wont work or are excess in your kit. There is a method to building an effective make-up kit and we will teach you this.

HMA AFTERCARE SOLOUTIONS

HMA soloutions are now confidential. But you will be supplied with our aftercare soloutions, supplied to you in print and face to face contact. These soloutions are so good they have been imitated to the last letter, thus our need for confidentialtiy... we have now developed this further, as a tight knit collective we hold regular networking events. To see the latest news on these as a potential student or a HMA graduate you can see our blog page which is easily linked via our news page or directly.

HMA Graduate Placements

Although we never guarantee placements we do note all of the latest placements on our site for you to read through. Not all students can be asked, but star students will find their way onto them. We do not charge for placements but keep it as part of our social networking philosophy. We will always recommend our students for work, if we are contacted with the right project. Again this isnt guaranteed so we do not make a featureof this on the site, at HMA we believe in honest and modesty, but if you wouldl ike to see the latest placements just look at the news section

FULL TIME COURSES

For our full time students we pack our course with visits from artists who work with the biggest celebrities and shows. We also include magazine editors and stylists. From our experience we as a collective have been taught at more formal colleges so with our own vast experience as professional make-up artists we pick out from the most informative, useful, enjoyable aspects of all experience and put it into one course, along with interactive projects to get you ready for the real world. This course is a reality check it is taught by active artists who prepare you for what working the environment is really like not a checklist of modules most of which you will never use. This course is the culmination of nothing but the select, a celebration of the best parts of our careers, industry need and future projects.

Honest Advice

At HMA we dont believe in hype and will always give a 'lets not beat around the bush' answer. If you call our director or any HMA staff they will give you an honest answer to an honest question. We even recommend other academies if you cant make the date of our courses. We dont need to snipe we believe in our product, so on that note here are a few more answers to possible questions....

Why do you not supply a make-up kit

For us its means we can keep the fee lower. If you looked to all inclusive courses they start running to the 5,000 pounds mark and above. Working in the freelance make-up industry is tough even for those at the top, its takes years to earn a decent salary and even this is often erratic. We dont encourge debt, we recommend spending less learning the essentials then getting out there, assisting, working for a brand gaining experience in your trade. You can build your kit as you go.... you can start with just a few basics and go from there. You dont necessarily need the big kit straight away so dont spend the money, if you do it will date before you have even used it all. Also if you are intending on working for a brand part time you can gain as much as 70% discount and this is when you can pick and choose wisely key products for your kit.

How good is the HMA brush kit?

Its standard its not amazing its not going to be at any college. It will be your beginner brush set and will have everything you need to get you going and is selected by us to give you the best head start with all the right tools that we know as artists you will definitely use. Artists collect brushes over years, ask an artist and they will often rather lose thier entire make-up kit than thier brushes,...Why? Well experienced artists have years worth of brushes from all over the world that are irreplaceable, and can own up to 400 carried in one brush roll...

We could have millions of designer names just to impress you but we wont necessarily, knowledge is key. We will have the key items that we have researched for you will be best in your kit, we will have products direct from the PR companies which have insider knowledge to the next best thing. For each look you will have a mini bag of your own tools some of which will have some of these products the rest will be a non label eyeshadow pallete, why? Because they give you hundreds of shades to choose from so when you are recreating you look you can pick and choose your own shades not just robotically copy us. You will use the designer names from the class kit when you are designing your own looks in catwalk and fashion make-up, which mirrors the industry. Often on assignments you will be asked to do natural, sculpting and make-up for older skins. This uses classic products or just the right shade which are not necessarily the latest product on the market and for a reason, these products are tried and tested. These products are in your mini kit. Then comes the HMA mass kit, the designer playground which you will use at the end of the beginners stage (or at the end of the evening course) when you will be given a editorial and catwalk look to recreate which will be taught by out HMA artist who actually designed that look for the chosen show we will be recreating OR the magazine shoot you will be shown and taught. At the end of the evening course you are given a shopping list we recommend and you can use your own choice as to whether you go for the designer brands or the industry brands, we will have used both and therefore shown you both ways of using product in your kit. No make-up artist just uses designer brands, an experienced artist will combine designer with industry label and non label to find thier own favourites at HMA we teach you this, the real process and cut out years of wasting of funds on products that you buy just for the name!

When you are taught on the full time course you will graudate from mini kit to mass designer playground kit (beginners stage and evening course) onto we we affectionately call the 'play kit' which goes beyond the standard academy designer make-up kit into, adornment, feathers, gemstones, gold leaf, body make-up, greasepaint, aquacolour and the list goes on, a make-up artist playground....

Whats the teaching like?

Passionate and Informed

Who do you ask to teach?

We will only ever teach with HMA hand selected artists, these artists must be a specialist in thier field, we have those who work in high fashion who work with Vogue, Marie Clare, those who work in Advertising, who work with Sony, The Brits, Vodafone, those who work in film who work on such films as St Trinians and those who work on TV who work for SKY and MTV, only the most inspiring...