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Committee 2007
Chairman:
Vice-chair: TBC
Secretary: Angela Seyfang 020 8977 0703
Treasurer: TBC
Committee: Julia Cruttenden c/o 020 8840 6000
Jan Harrison Shell 020 8878 9048
Jeanette Redmond 07946 226639
Hilary Steinberg 020 8441 0411
Paul Vale
Chrissie Webster 01932 569445
Caroline Silk 07952 971042
Website: www.nasmah.co.uk
Letter from the Chairman
Well, here we are at the beginning of another year, a year that some of you have found work very difficult to find and others that have had no problems. Work is thin on the ground at present, with only a few features going, but television seems to be busy with many stations and production companies trying to get a stockpile of productions in High Definition.
We had a strange year with terminating our sponsorship with Charles Fox and starting a new sponsorship with Screenface. This stopped us arranging some of our short courses and refresher days. We are now back on track and ready to help you with any problems that you may have encountered, or to organise courses for you. We need input from you in order to arrange speakers and tutors. Let us know what you need and we will do our best to arrange the top person in that field to come and do a course or lecture. But without your input we can do nothing.
It’s that time of year when subscriptions are due. We do not ask a lot of money for being a member of NASMAH, but we have several of you who have not paid for last year, let alone this. We cannot ask those members who religiously pay their subscriptions to pay for you, so if fees are not received by end of March, members who have lapsed will have their details removed from the online directory.
I hope the rest of this year will be good for you all and I hope to see some of you on one of our forthcoming events.
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Angela and I
were invited to celebrate 10 years of MAP with a champagne evening at their
premise in Shepherds Bush.
Florianne, the
make-up artist for Make Up For Ever, came over from
Sandra
Membership Fees
Fees are now
due for 2007 membership and fees are the same as last year: £40 for members,
£25 for freshmen. Please send your payment to Sandra ASA P! Thank you.
Training 2007
I was one of the lucky people who trained whilst being paid at the BBC in what now is considered as ‘The Dark Ages’. Although training was an intensive three months, throughout my career I have always strived to update my knowledge of products etc., but also have to stop myself acquiring historical reference pictures from magazines and newspapers, even to this day. This is not to prove myself cleverer than anyone else, but to always be prepared for any questions thrown at me during the course of employment. The above is to re-emphasise the need to keep up-to-date by various means, employment and finances permitting, but there is no reason not to take yourself off to an art gallery on a day off.
One
detail that I would like to emphasise about courses of any kind – please
try to check the experience of the tutor (e.g. are they industry experienced)
and that the course content is relevant to what you need. Also, do they
contain enough practical time? The odd demo is useful, but ‘hands on’
is essential.
I
was interested to find that our industry NVQs are ‘no longer’. As an
assessor I found that there was no great interest in qualifications,
but I was equally horrified at some of the ‘training’ that I was supposed
to adjudicate. It was not the trainees fault, but some of the practices
were scandalous. NVQs have been a problem throughout all of the industry.
I was talking to a hairdressing saloon owner lamenting that trainees
are really only assessed on the work of that day (even a witness statement
of another occasion was hard to truly judge) and she would like to see
work assessed over a much longer period of time and ‘training speak’
is just laughable.
At
NASMAH we are finding that, although we try to keep prices down to a
reasonable level (we are non-profit making), the only real attendees
are senior staff who are always updating their knowledge and we apologise
to out of town members (how about getting groups together to talk and
socialise?).What we are also keen to provide is the opportunity for
members to view their own work and learn by mistakes in private. If
members would like to contact us about ‘play days’, we will be more
than happy to help.
Another
worrying aspect is the use of EU staff to keep the productions cheap
– doesn’t it show! Unfortunately
this cannot be legally stopped, but wouldn’t it be nice if somebody
at least tried.
Angela
Seyfang
Centenary
of
The gathering of alumni
(pre-1995) was held at the
I had been a student
on the now defunct Hairdressing & Beauty Culture course before I joined
the BBC. An enterprising soul had contacted various members of that group
and four of us met (one that lived on
The majority
present seemed to be from the fashion side of what is now The University
of the Arts, London, but I did find out that what was initially going to
be the permanent home for the make-up and hairdressing dept. in Lime Grove,
Shepherds Bush will now be moving sometime to the Kings Cross area! There
is a website for the university, if you are interested, and guess what….
they are seeking donations for future plans!
Angela
News from
‘Wigs Up North!’
A wig-making company
based in
Last year we branched
out into make-up and now stock Kryolan, Jane Iredale, Make-up International,
Cosmetics a la Carte, Dermacolour and Lily Lolo, with more to come soon.
This complements our own range of brushes and powder puffs.
If any NASMAH members
are up north, we would be pleased to hear from you.”
IMATS 2007
The
International Make-up Artist Trade Show proved to be a huge success
this year with ticket sales up by a staggering 30% on last year.
Amongst the key-note speakers, Show Director Michael Key offered us
a trio of Oscar winners including Jeff Dawn (The Terminator, True
Lies), Howard Berger (Chronicles
of Narnia) and our very own Christine Blundell (Topsy-Turvy,
Casino Royale) as well as Oscar nominated Daniel Parker. Perhaps
even more exciting than this was the presence in the education slots
of David Marti and Vittorio Sodano who have both garnered Oscar nominations
this year for Pan’s Labyrinth and Apocalypto respectively.
Other
educators this year included Sheelagh Wells, Corinne Lucy-Howlett, Gill
Little, Linda Cooley and Joanne Foster for Shepperton Wigs, Robert Smith,
Terrence Wilson, Carolyn Cowan and Neill Gorton. Space proved
to be a particular problem this year, as in the case of Neill Gorton’s
extremely popular prosthetics demonstration and David Marti’s conversation
with Joe Nazzarro about his work on Pan’s Labyrinth. These
things needed to be on the main stage simply due to the crowds of people
who attended. Michael Key is looking into the problem and suggestions
such as tickets on a ‘first come – first served’ basis are an option.
Either way, all the speakers provided insight into the industry and
some wonderful photographic opportunities.
The
exhibitors’ floor was a hive of activity as usual with many of the companies
recording great sales over the weekend. Charles Fox and Kryolan,
sponsors of the popular competition, enjoyed a high profile weekend
with the launch of their new brush range. A percentage of the sale of
these brushes will go towards Cancer Research and to accompany the launch,
award-winning body painter Raphael Fieldhouse painted four models to
look like the brushes, complete with outrageous bristle wigs.
The
IMAT show has once again proved to be a unique way to bring together
the make-up community, not just of this country, but of
Paul Vale
Obituaries
Mimi Kimmins
Mimi was the
senior makeup supervisor at Thames TV (Teddington and Euston studios). She
sadly passed away at the end of October last year. The funeral was held
in
Shirley Channing
Williams
Shirley Channing
Williams sadly died on 5th January 2007.
Make-up personnel
at the BBC in the 60s (where she was already a supervisor) knew her as Shirley
Boakes until her marriage to Simon Channing Williams. She retained the name
for the rest of her professional career and was still working freelance
until quite recently. She was a founder/life member of NASMAH and served
on the committee for several years.
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Training Courses
We have recently
done two airbrushing courses with John Woodbridge as tutor and both of these
were booked up very quickly. Our courses are very competitively priced and
everyone who has attended has said how much they’ve enjoyed them and how
much they’ve learnt. Take advantage of these courses while work is quiet!
Period Wig Styling
Three days on
period hairstyling on wigs. Includes taking head shapes, wig care, setting
and styling techniques for achieving a true period look using modern equipment.
Dates:
12/13/14 Feb
Cost:
£400 NASMAH members (£500 non-members)
Tutor:
Stephanie
Kaye
Barbering For
Make-up Artists
A two-day course
in use of clippers and scissors-over-comb to achieve a period hairstyle
on men.
Dates:
TBA
Cost:
£200 NASMAH
members (£250 non-members)
Tutor:
Jeanette Redmond
Dailies: What
You Need To Know
A one-day course
on dailies, including how to read a callsheet, what equipment you need to
take, breaking down and facial hair application (laid-on).
Dates:
TBA
Cost:
£100 Nasmah members (£130 non-members)
Tutor:
TBA
This is an open workshop for anyone who wants to see their work on an HD monitor from an HD camera. We have Howard Baker, film cameraman, bringing along HD equipment for you to try what you want on camera.
This will be a workshop without tutors or lectures. Just bring along what you want to see on HD and try it out. We will have experienced people on hand to give guidance and advice.
We only have this equipment for two days:
26 and 27 Feb from
Space is limited so you will have to book your time:
Cost: 2 full days £100
1 full day £50
½ day £30
All the course places are limited and it will be ‘first come - first served’
Please
contact Sandra on 07721 623728 or
Angela
on 07714 032050 to book your place
If there isn’t a course here for you, what would you like to learn? Any skills to update or refresh? Let us know and we’ll do what we can to get you training!
We have received an interesting request from Stuart Froude, a Researcher with Twenty Twenty Television........
‘Back in Business’ is a new documentary series for BBC2 and we’re looking
for retired hairdressers and young, enthusiastic budding hairdressers
to take part. We’re offering an amazing opportunity to compete for one month’s
probationary period at one of
The government is encouraging people of a retiring age to work longer so
we’re going to put it to the test. We want to explore what it’s like for
them to work in a predominantly young business in 2007 and to explore how
the industry has changed.
We need retired 50-75 years old who would be interested in going back into
the hairdressing industry. They’ll go head-to-head with a new entrant and
both candidates will compete in the same job to see who can cut it – young
gun or golden oldie? Will age and experience be worth more than youthful
enthusiasm or vice versa? It’s an amazing opportunity for anyone who gets
involved.
“In a survey of 300 employers, 80% said that they supported the idea of
people working into their 60s but 75% had no employees aged over 60.”
(source: Help the Aged)
If you could mention it to your colleagues or anyone else who might know
retired hairdressers between 50-75 years old that would be great. If they
fancy finding out a bit more about it, my details are below.
Filming begins at the end of February so we are keen to get contributors
confirmed ASAP. The series will be a primetime BBC2 programme produced by
Twenty Twenty Television, one the UK’s leading production companies, responsible
for the award winning That’ll Teach
‘em and the Emmy award winning
Brat Camp.
Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Stuart
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Stuart Froude | Researcher | Back in Business
Twenty Twenty Television,
t: 0207 284 2020
e: stuartfroude@twentytwenty.tv
w: http://www.twentytwenty.tv/
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’blouse&skirt’ at MAP
A new makeup
range for women of colour. Created by makeup artist Beverley Binda, the
range includes a selection of bases and lip glosses. The oil-free bases
have a cream to powder formula, producing a matte finish. The glosses come
in a range of colours to complement olive to dark skin tones.
Contact MAP for
more details
http://www.blouseandskirtcosmetics.com/
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MAC Micronized Airbrush
Foundation
A silicone-based
foundation specially created for photography, HD and film. A micronized
formula that comes in a reasonable range of skin tones, neutrals and skin-adjuster
shades. Very matte finish.
The
MAC Airbrush Cleanser can be
used to thin the bases (and other silicone-based foundations) as well as
clean your airbrush.
Comes in 50ml
bottles. Available from MAC Pro stores.
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Kett ‘Hydro Proof’ at MAP
Kett Cosmetics Hydro Proof foundation is now to be found at MAP. The alcohol-based makeup is waterproof and matches up to their foundation colours.