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George Dunford sees what you need to take on a Creative Career as a Make-up and Hair Artist.

Applying foundation

For Gold Coast-born Selena Pertzel, some of the best fun she's had as a make-up and hair artist has been about making people anything but beautiful. She explains that for one TV show "We needed to make up twenty cave men in the morning with prosthetic foreheads and noses and beards and moustaches and wigs and false teeth - the whole thing. They were all grubbied up all over. That was great fun."

It was movie-style effect that got Selena into make-up and she studied at Queensland's Frampton school, founded by an Oscar winning make-up artist. Her course was an intensive three month course and has gone on to work on music videos for Pete Murray – (“He’s really one of those people who doesn’t want to look like he’s got make-up on so he’s really low key and really easy.”) Dallas Crane and Tripod.

Cosmetic Improvements

There's no average day when you're looking after cast of characters in a film, play or TV show. "One day you might go in and do prosthetic work," Selena says, "and then the next you’re doing beauty work and the next you’re throwing mud at people.”

Days can be very long with an “average of 16-17 hours if they’re paying you overtime.” And a lot of the job is about working very closely with celebrities. “Being in the make-up bus you’re not just their make-up artist,” Selena reckons. “You’re also their psychologist… they sit there and they talk to you about what’s going on at home.”

Highlights

As well as film and TV work, Selena has worked on short films. "I’m heading off to America in June to source some work and going to the make-up trade show over there and work on a few short films."

It's a job that travels well with directors keen to work with the same people on set. "As I went along directors got to know me and the work that I did so then they start calling you and asking you to do jobs," Selena explains.

And not only are you up close and personal with stars everday, but you might even get to be such good friends that'll give you more work. "The girl who did Gwyneth Paltrow’s make-up - Gwyneth takes her from movie to movie, so she doesn’t even have to negotiate her contract or anything."

1. Make your own blood. "You can make your own bloods out of corn syrup, glycerine and food colouring and it’s fun to play around with at home."

2. Wipe out your eyebrows by going into a make-up store and "asking for eyebrow plastic, which can actually block out your eyebrows" by moulding it over the top of them. Luckily it comes off with any form of oil – even olive oil.

3. Have a go at creating a face painting design either by drawing some on paper or buying a set of paints. Here's a site to spark your imagination: www.facepaint.co.uk

4. Check out the latest in effect by grabbing a DVD, like Harry Potter (that tattoo is really all make-up) and "all those little goblins would have to sit for eight to ten hours and get their ears done and their fingers stuck on." DVDs like the Grinch can also come with extra features about how the make-up was designed.

5. Hire a wig and wear it like a professional - “Tie your hair into a ponytail and plait it and run it up the side ot the head and pin it all in. Get a pair of old stockings, Cut the legs off it and tie a knot it and then use it to hold or your hair in, then put the wig on."

6. Grab a library books including the series written by Richard Corson "He’s got a stage make-up one, which step by step shows you how to age someone. It’ll show you how to do it with a brown and a flesh colour and how to shade and highlight to draw wrinkles."

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