This course is designed as an introduction to the hairdressing industry, and a taster course to our Level 2 Hairdressing Diploma .
This course will give learners confidence in their abilities to style hair.
- Health and Safety Act 1974
- First aid
- Dealing with emergencies
- Risk assessment
- Personal hygiene
- COSHH – Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health
- Slips and trips
- Environmental aspects
- PPE
- Client/employee safety.
Consultation/customer care
- Be able to consult and advise a client
- Speak clearly/ listen
- Body language
- Client requirements
- Sufficient client information to help make a decision
- Identifying factors that may prevent a service
- Visual aids
- Client records
- Carry out appropriate tests
- MI requirements/PPE
- Aftercare advice
- Face shapes/patterns
- Identifying hair types
- Skin conditions
Shampooing/product choice
- Be able to prepare yourself and your client for shampoo/conditioning service
- Prepare your work area
- Sanitise area/equipment
- Identifying hair type
Shampooing/product choice continued…
- Identifying any contraindications
- Shampooing techniques e.g. effleurage
- Be able to pick the correct products for service and know what each product is for e.g. moisture is good for hydration
- Posture
- pH scale
- Shampoo theory e.g. what does shampoo do to the cuticle.
Introduction to the colour star
- What is colour
- Depth/tone
- Primary/secondary colours
- Colour star
- Types of colour/peroxide/bleach
Blow drying/correct use of tools
- Be able to prepare yourself and your client
- Tools needed and what they are e.g. brushes, clips
- How to hold the dryer
- How the shape of the hair can be changed
- Blow drying aids/products
- How to prepare the hair
- Sectioning
- Faults when blow-drying
- What is blow-drying
- Blow drying techniques
Heat styling/dressing hair
- What is heat styling/dressing hair
- How to use heat correctly
- Different ways to style hair e.g. waves, curls, finger waving
- Face shapes/patterns
- Picking the correct product choice
- Finished look
Introduction to hairdressing/hairdressing theory.
- What is hairdressing
- Careers in hairdressing
- Salon/reception duties
- What is the hair made up of
- Stages of hair growth
- Shampoo molecule
- Types of detergents
- Infections/diseases
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