Course Overview
This fantastic Intensive Course is designed to see you become an image maker, a confident player within creative teams, ready to make strong style statements with hair in your work!
Run as a series of Masterclass Sessions – the course provides in-depth training in essential signature hair styling skills, such as advanced blow-drying, waving and curling techniques, working with hair extensions and editorial / runway ponytails . Classes are structured as intensive practical sessions and live demonstrations on high-quality mannequin practice heads.
The aim across the 5 days is to empower you with a strong technical and creative foundation to build upon as you step-out, or elevate your path in the world of SESSION HAIR STYLING.
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Designed for Make-Up Artists, Hairstylists and Hairdressers from all industry backgrounds passionate about hair, whether you are new to the world of Session Hair Styling, or boosting your career by expanding your existing skills – The course is packed with Kevin & our guest-tutors’ most loved and trusted techniques.
Ideal for passionate session artists looking to confidently deliver upon the technical & creative demands on-set, the course will empower you to produce fantastic work in today’s fast-moving Hair, Make-Up & Beauty industry.
This fantastic 5-Day Intensive Course is ideal for:
HAIR STYLISTS
Ready to raise your industry-profile by mastering new skills and taking your artistry to the next level.
HAIRDRESSERS
Ambitious to kick-start a career in the Session World and have an edge in the exciting world of salon-based styling sessions.
MAKE-UP ARTISTS
Ready to expand your clientele and earning potential by adding key hairstyling techniques to your portfolio of skills.
BRIDAL HAIR STYLISTS
Passionate about bringing a fashion-sense and creative finesse to your work, that will help you stand-out from the competition.
SALON OWNERS
Set to send their most ambitious and talented stylists on Industry courses that will help you tap into the exciting market and demand for salon-based styling sessions.
The Course Covers:
- The Science of Hair & Products
- Concept of Visual Ideas
- Current Hair Trends
- Assessing Hair
- Session Sectioning
- Session Tools
- Curl Direction
- Movement
- The Perfect Session Blow-Dry
- Modern Setting Techniques
- Editorial Finishing
- Articulating Ideas
- Creative Briefs
- Making Confident Style Statements
- On-Trend Waves & Curls
- The Catwalk Ponytail
- Session Extensions Techniques
- Root-lift, Volume & Texture
- ‘Wet Hair’ Look
- On-Set Etiquette & Time Management
- Hair Design Presentation Skills
TOOLS & REQUIREMENTS
A complete kit is required to take part in the course. The styling tools you will need to bring along to all classes are: Professional hair dryer with Fabric / Mesh Diffuser, Straightening irons, Curling tongs (no wands!), Tail comb, Large Tooth comb, Cuttig Comb, Hair Cutting Scissors, Small & Medium Bristle brushes, Paddle brush, Denman brush, Section clips,Water spray. The Kevin Fortune Hair Styling Academy will provide all the styling-products needed during classes.
