Description
This practical and knowledge-based qualification has been created to develop and equip existing hairdressers with advanced and creative skills, competencies, and expertise in hair services in particular; advanced hair science, consultation and profiling, creative cutting, colour correction, creative setting, dressing styling and finishing hair and creative colouring. This qualification will also enable existing hairdressers to gain confidence in practice while gathering evidence in a realistic working environment.
The Diploma will provide learners with the knowledge and skills to carry out advanced and creative hairdressing services, enabling learners to gain the necessary skills and essential underpinning knowledge to work commercially as a Hairdresser/Senior/Creative Stylist. The Diploma will also provide opportunities for learners to develop the necessary skills and competencies to progress directly into employment or to further study.
Units
- Advanced Hair Science
- Implement health, safety, and hygiene
- Client consultation and profiling
- Creatively cut hair
- Creatively set, dress, style, and finish hair
- Creatively colour and lighten hair
- Colour correction
- Advanced hair science – learners will gain advanced knowledge on the; structure and function of the body systems and their interdependence on each other, structure and function of hair and hair growth, structure and functions of the skin and the relative and absolute contraindications and related pathologies to improve their ability to select the most appropriate products, tools, equipment, and techniques when performing advanced and creative hair services.
- Implement health, safety, and hygiene – learners will be able to implement their advanced knowledge and understanding of health, safety, and hygiene practices through research of legislation, policies, and procedures. The learner will analyse and review policies and procedures for refinement when implementing health, safety and hygiene for the salon, self, and clients for services/treatments.
- Client consultation and profiling – underpins all the practical technical units within this qualification. Learners will be able to conduct a concise consultation to determine the most appropriate service/treatment to meet the client’s needs and achieve the desired outcome/s.
- Creatively cut hair – learners will gain advanced knowledge and creative skills to be able to use products, tools, equipment, and a variety of creative cutting skills to create a bespoke restyled creative look to enhance personal image.
- Creatively set, dress, style, and finish hair – learners will gain advanced knowledge and creative skills to be able to use products, tools, equipment, and a variety of conventional and nonconventional styling and dressing techniques to produce innovative, fashionable, creative, and personalised looks.
- Creatively colour and lighten hair – learners will gain advanced knowledge and creative skills to be able to use products, tools, equipment, by combining, adapting, and personalising colouring and lightening techniques to create a variety of creative looks. Techniques include the use of weaving, slicing and block, block panel colouring and full head and regrowth application of lightener.
- Colour correction – learners will gain advanced knowledge and creative skills to be able to use products, tools, equipment, and a variety of techniques will include, removing artificial colour, removing bands of colour, recolouring hair and correcting highlights and lowlights colouring services.
