BA (Hons) Make-up, Hair and Prosthetics

Career opportunities will focus on working closely with directors, designers and other creative departments in film, television, live performance and fashion which could include CGI technicians, photographers, model makers, sculptors, animatronics designers, visual effects artists and fashion stylists.

As graduating make-up artists from AUB, your professional options are wide and varied. With this in mind, the course has been designed to prepare you for a professional career in a diverse range of specialist roles thus giving you the necessary skills to take full advantage of an inspiring and exciting career.

Our Careers and Enterprise Service is dedicated to supporting you in turning your creativity into a great career.

Opportunities that our recent graduates have undertaken include:

• Make-up trainee – Paddington in Peru
• Make-up assistant – Ted Lasso
• Prosthetic department – Wheel of Time
  
• Make-up department – The Last of Us
• Make-up trainee with Lan Nguyen
  
• Head of Wigs and Make-up – Shrek the Musical
• Wig assistant – Witness for the Prosecution
  
• Wig assistant at The Wig Store
• Wig assistant – Moulin Rouge
• Wig technician at Pete Own Wigs, Bristol
• Wigs and make-up assistant for the Royal Shakespeare Company
• Mould-making technicians for the Harry Potter tour
• Ministry of Masks, London
• Shepperton Film Studios
• Millennium FX prosthetics studio, London
• Square Pegg Prosthetics
• BGFX
• Pinewood Film Studios
• Wigs and Make-up Assistant – We Will Rock You
• BBC – Doctor Who

Previous graduates have gained employment on the following projects:

• Films – Paddington in Peru (2024), The Gentlemen (2019), Maleficent II (2019), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), Redcon-1 (2018), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), The Mummy (2017), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016), Spectre (2015), Cinderella (2015), Pan (2015), War Machine (2014)​
• Television – Bridgerton (Netflix), Ted Lasso (Warner Bros., Apple TV), Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime TV), Carnival Row (Amazon), Coronation Street (ITV), Rellik (BBC), The Durrells (ITV), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC), The Secret (ITV), Little Boy Blue (ITV), Three Girls (BBC), Casualty (BBC), The Keith and Paddy Picture Show (ITV), Episodes (Channel 4) ​
• Fashion Promotion and Editorial – MAC cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Illamasqua, Bobbi Brown and London Fashion Week​
• Theatre Wig Department and wigmakers – The Royal Opera House, Shrek the Musical, English National Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company, Miss Saigon, 42nd Street, Hairspray, La Cage aux Folles, Cabaret, Mary Poppins, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Dirty Dancing, Peter Owen Wigs, Welsh National Opera and The Wig Store​
• Prosthetic makers, designers, waxworks – Square Peg Studios, BGFX, Mark Coulier, Millennium FX, Kristyan Mallett Make-up Effects, Altered States FX, KMFX, Harry Potter Studio Tour and Madame Tussauds

As students on BA (Hons) Make-up, Hair and Prosthetics, you'll engage with industry experts throughout the course in guest lectures and specialist workshops.