I was a student at Blanche Macdonald June 2003-March 2004. Our first teacher, Sandra, was really nice, so was Sidney. Michelle the hair teacher was a bit rough, but we learned a lot from her. The rest of the teachers were really bad. Our fashion teacher was an old graduate from the school and some of my classmates had more professional experience than her. The worst was the teacher we got for the last course, Special F/X Make up. She had been a make up artist for a tv series (her first gig) and when the series got cancelled they brough her over to teach us Special F/X. There was a great teacher, a guy, I don't remember his name, he used to be the one in charge of teaching F/X but he got called for a movie, so we got stuck with the "apprentice". She was soooo bad. Half of my class didn't finish the course because of her and the other half complained about her, but she was friends with the director...The school policies were incredibly harsh for the students. At the time I paid in school tuitions almost 8 thousand dollars. After I graduated most people from the cinema industry told me that Blanche Macdonald was a "rip off centre" and that I should go to another centre to obtain a better training in the make up field. So my advice to people considering to study there is "Don't do it", It is not worth your money. I left Canada since then, but I still work on the make industry in Europe, and I can tell you that I had to learn all new things from more experienced make up artist around me because what you learned at BMC was of no use in the field. As I said from Sidney, he taught us TV make up, I learned a great deal, and from Sandra and Michelle, the rest, not worth it and the manager and director of the centre were very rude women that treated us like little idiots and talked to us like we were dumb student girls.
