Make-up & Hair Design at UCA

Refine your existing skills and communicate narrative and visual stories through the medium of make-up on our collaborative and future-thinking MA Make-up & Hair Design degree course at UCA Epsom.

On this course, you’ll be encouraged to use your skills to experiment with outputs for fashion and related disciplines. From emerging practices – such as digital make-up design – through to historical contexts for make-up and performance, you will also collaborate with stylists and image makers to communicate to an audience. 

As part of this, you’ll work alongside students from across UCA’s postgraduate fashion courses, including Creative Direction for Fashion, Fashion Design, Textiles and Digital.  

You’ll be taught by specialist academics and experienced industry professionals, plus you will have the opportunity to gain insight into industry commissions, professional roles, and hear from industry leaders. 

With industry-based facilities and equipment at your fingertips, you will have all the tools you need to experiment, play and critically challenge the notions of makeup and outputs for the fashion industry and beyond. 

Please note: this course is subject to validation.

Key information

Campus
UCA Epsom
Start date(s)
September 2025
Duration
1 year full-time
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Entry requirements
Tuition fees
What you'll study

What you'll
study

The content of the course may be subject to change. Curriculum content is provided as a guide.

Launch
The launch week is a cross-school event bringing together all the MA and MFA students across all disciplines within Fashion and Textiles to get to know each other and form an international, cross-functional, dynamic postgraduate community. 

Exploring Creative Practice 
Experiment with a range of approaches to making and constructing work and start to define processes you wish to investigate (visually, technically) in further practice. You will also develop a rationale for chosen approaches. 

Critical Thinking for Creative Practice 
You will learn about the historical and contemporary debates underpinning your creative practice and start to expand your historical and contextual knowledge. You will examine ethical frameworks and be introduced to social and cultural approaches to fashion and textiles. 

Opportunity 

The opportunity week is a cross-school event bringing together all MA and MFA students across all disciplines within Fashion and Textiles to formally present works in progress and major project proposal to their postgraduate community.  

Refining Creative Practice 

Within this unit you will reflect further upon work made in Exploring Creative Practice to highlight a route forward. You will explore archives and dissemination of your practice through a group interim show – this will help develop your management and collaborative skillsets, while understanding problem solving and diplomatic compromise.  

Collaborative Professional Practice 

This unit is collaborative professional project divided into two stages - a project proposal for everyone and either a project implementation stage or a creative business start-up module (in collaboration with the Business School for the Creative Industries). 

Major Project 
As you reach the culmination of your studies, you’ll be challenged to create a body of work that is an exposition of your research and creative exploratory practice. It will encapsulate the creative ideas, research methodologies, new insights, technical expertise and professional contexts that you have developed over the duration of the course.  

Fees & funding

Fees & financial support

Tuition fees

  • 2025/26: £10,500

Tuition fees

Tuition fees

  • 2025/26 (MA): £18,000
  • 2025/26 (Integrated International Pre-Masters course - Sept & Jan): £17,500
  • 2025/26 (Integrated International Pre-Masters course - May): £8,750

Please note: the fees listed here are correct for the stated academic year only. For more detailed information about our course fees please see our fees and finance pages. 

UCA scholarships and fee discounts

At UCA we have a number of scholarships and fee discounts available to assist you with the cost of your studies.

Current UCA students and alumni may be eligible for a tuition fee discount.

Financial support

There are lots of ways you can access additional financial support to help you fund your studies - both from UCA and from external sources. Discover what support you might qualify for please see our financial support information.

Additional course costs

In addition to the tuition fees there may be other costs for your course. The things that you are likely to need to budget for to get the most out of a creative arts education will include books, printing costs, occasional or optional study trips and/or project materials.

These costs will vary according to the nature of your project work and the individual choices that you make. Please see the Additional Course Costs section of the Course Information Document for more details of the costs you may incur.

Facilities

Study in our brand new beauty studio at UCA Epsom. The campus also has a wide range of facilities including fully equipped photography studios and digital media suites with Macs and PCs with latest programmes for editing as well as general design work.

Make-up & Hair Design Studios, UCA Epsom

Make-up and hair studio, UCA Epsom

Photography Studio, UCA Epsom

Photography studios, UCA Epsom

Make-up & Hair Design Studios, UCA Epsom

Make-up and hair studio, UCA Epsom

Make-up & Hair Design Studios, UCA Epsom

Make-up and hair studio, UCA Epsom

Entry & portfolio requirements

For this course we will need to see your portfolio for review. You can either submit a digital portfolio or request an in-person portfolio review with the course team. Further information will be provided once you have applied. View portfolio advice

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