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Vintage Hair Styles: Styling With Hot Sticks
Styling vintage 1930s hair or 1920s finger waves a Babyliss Hot Stick is a bendy marvel. Heated hot sticks are by far a favourite styling tool of all time. Making short work of session styling or when knocking out vintage hair styles on a film set. Quickly and easily...
Makeup College? Maximise Your Potential
Makeup College Looms, it is just around the corner. Summer has begun and it is only a few short months until the time comes to pack up the makeup kits and get together the hair tools. You are about to embark on an exciting adventure for two or three years. Learning...
Wig Makers Tip: Use Your Tongue
A wig makers top tip when knotting or ventilating hair into any full lace wig foundation using a wig making block. All Wig makers out there can save their eyes by using a 'tongue'. This tongue is made from a non reflective cardboard of a dark colour. Using a wig...
Lace Front Wig: Refine Your Hairline
When a hairline is knotted (hand tied) into a lace front wig it is vitally important that time is taken and attention to detail maintained. Knotting a full lace wig by hand is always the preferred method when wig making. It will always produce the most natural looking...
Blonde Hair Wig Mixology: Bold For Stage
When utilising wig making skills to create a natural looking blond hair wig for the stage, it is vital you go bold with the mixing of blonde tresses in a human hair wig. Solid blonde highlights and darker blonde lowlights are absolutely essential to add depth and...
Wig Making Classes In London At UMAE
Wig Making Classes and wig making featured heavily at this year's UMAE (The United Makeup Artist's Expo) at London's Novotel Convention Centre in Hammersmith. Very good news indeed and WAM Studio were delighted to have our very own stand. We certainly met some...
Wig Making: An Epic Week Of Wig Repairs
My focus this week has been on some epic wig repairs at English National Opera. A full week has been spent adding foundation lace to extend front lace wigs and adding nape extensions on a pile of full lace wigs. The wig repairs were needed for one of our ladies in the...
WAM STUDIO: How I am making my dream into your reality
Teaching Since 2009 'I dreamed a dream in time gone by. When hope was high and life worth living' Les Miserables I have been teaching wig making at a University College since 2009, helping students gain experience in the art of wig making. Every...
Wig Making Kit: Your Essentials
Your wig making kit explained. When making your own wig there are some essentials that you require in your wig making kit. In the following blog we will discuss all the equipment that you will need to make a full lace wig and what you will need to source your wig...
SURVIVAL GUIDE: My tips on how to get the most from the makeup artists’ trade shows
The season is upon us. Makeup artists out there rejoice. It’s makeup Christmas for many of us as the trade shows roll around for another year. The excitement is brewing and for all the good little boy and girl artists out there, that ticket will be delivered...