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Where a make-up and hair designer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a make-up and hair designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Make-up and hair designers develop a design concept for make-up and hair of performers and supervise the execution of it. Their work is based on research and artistic vision. Their design is influenced by and influences other designs and must be conform with these designs and the overall artistic vision. Therefore, the designers work closely with artistic directors, operators and the artistic team. Make-up and hair designers develop sketches, design drawings or other documentation to support the workshop and performance crew. Make-up designers sometimes also work as autonomous artists, creating make-up art outside a performance context.

Also known as hair and make-up artist, hair designer & make-up artist, hair and make up designer, hair designer and make-up artist, hair & make up designer, make-up artist & hair designer, make up and hair designer, hair & make-up artist, hair & make-up designer, make up & hair designer, make up & hair artist, make-up, hair and wig designer.

Service and sales workers 62 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: performance hairdresser, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
performance hairdresser 79% covered performance video designer 77% covered performance lighting designer 77% covered wig and hairpiece maker 76% covered costume designer 76% covered make-up and hair designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from make-up and hair designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a make-up and hair designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A make-up and hair designer needs 38 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • decide on make-up process management skills
  • draw make-up sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design make-up effects communication, collaboration and creativity
  • decide on wig making process management skills
  • conduct costume research information skills
  • research new ideas information skills
  • verify feasibility information skills
  • analyse the artistic concept based on stage actions information skills
  • propose improvements to artistic production communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse the scenography communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a make-up and hair designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Make-up and hair designer is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a make-up and hair designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.