<p>Hi! I've been on CC over on the Musical Theatre threads for a couple years as my older D is a Freshman at Ithaca in MT this fall. My younger D is a junior in high school and either wants to be a medical examiner/coroner (good job security --- people are always dying ha ha) or she wants to get a BFA in Wig and Make up Design. Yeah I know----two very different directions. She is leaning more toward the Wig/Make up route at this point, so just wondering who else out there is going in that direction? What schools are you looking at? What types of things are you putting in the portfolio? etc. etc. Looking forward to the journey!!!</p>
<p>I’ve heard great things about the program at UNCSA. </p>
<p>Here’s an inspiring bio about Matthew Mungle, and Academy-award winning Makeup Artist from a small town in Oklahoma:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wmcreationsinc.com/matthew-mungles-bio/[/url]”>http://www.wmcreationsinc.com/matthew-mungles-bio/</a></p>
<p>Good for your daughter, to know that there even IS a Wig/Makeup career path in performing arts!</p>
<p>My son loves makeup design. I was going to share that article with him, but the link didn’t work, so I’d love it if you’d try it again. He is always printing out blank face templates, and doing exotic things to his own face. But that’s more of a sideline, secondary to his MT studies. He says if he has to work a survival job, he wants to be as employable in the theatrical world as possible, so he is committed to be competent in several areas.</p>
<p>One of D’s classmates is going for makeup and has become very excited about Webster University. Check it out!</p>
<p>Sorry you couldn’t get the link to work. Try this one:</p>
<p>[Atoka</a> makeup artist puts face on Hollywood | News OK](<a href=“http://newsok.com/atoka-makeup-artist-puts-face-on-hollywood/article/1924981]Atoka”>http://newsok.com/atoka-makeup-artist-puts-face-on-hollywood/article/1924981)</p>
<p>Thanks for the article Mountainhiker—I’ll share it with my D. She is very interested in this field but I just don’t have a handle on how much and what level of experience these colleges will expect to see on a resume. Anyone out there know more about this?? and does anyone know how many applicants apply each year and how many are accepted?</p>
<p>Hands down UNCSA for wig and makeup I was accepted based on my portfolio, a good second choice is CCM.</p>
<p>Londream: Congrats for getting into a great program! Was your portfolio in DVD format? Hard copy format in an album of some kind? How many others were you up against?
The three schools my D has been looking at on line are UNCSA, CCM and Webster. The interesting thing about Webster is that students can obtain a Cosmetology license through the National Academy of Beauty Arts while they are in the program at Webster. Anyone know more about that?</p>
<p>I choose to forego college altogether but, since I am self taught my portfolio was just photos of my work consisting of beauty, fantasy, special effects North Carolina is big on sketching and you do take a lot of drawing classes as part of their coursework. Checkout their sample portfolio on line.</p>
<p>Thanks Londream! </p>
<p>My D hasn’t taken any drawing in classes in high school because the art dept. there isn’t very good. She has done a lot of drawing etc. on her own though. Will that be a big negative?? Or is it the quality of the actual work that matters more (just like in MT it’s the actual audition that really matters often more than all the experience listed on your resume).</p>
<p>The one thing that worried me was the art factor, I am not the best sketcher and it did seem important and eventually you do have to sculpt. I have seem many costume designers who can not sketch at all so it seems the end result of your overall work is what matters.</p>
<p>Thanks again Londream!</p>
<p>My D is in technical theater at CMU. Some of the students in her program had lots of experience, others did not. But the school\ did not expect applicants to be finished professionals. In fact, they were somewhat adverse to it. A conservatory education is a structured education that starts from the ground up and most schools appear to want students who are willing to start from the beginning. The most sought-after qualities were talent, desire, and the willingness to work hard. A basic tip on portfolios is to read the website of each school closely as many tell you exactly what they want/don’t want.</p>