Beauty

Working in the fully equipped training salon at NMIT, you will explore beauty trends, treatments and services and have the opportunity to develop the skills needed to provide basic treatments to clients. During this programme you will work towards credits in the NZ Certificate in Salon Services Level 2 and you will also have the opportunity to learn about:

• Skin health
• Customer service and retail
• Professional products
• Tinting
• Eyebrow shaping
• Hand, foot and nail care

This is a great opportunity to learn about a future career that will enable you to travel the world while working in the beauty, body and spa industry.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the client journey in a salon.
• Provide client service and care and assist the operator to prepare for service in a beauty salon or clinic.
• Describe key concepts related to personal hygiene and presentation and maintain personal presentation and a positive image for a commercial beauty salon.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current fashion trends and analyse their influence on performing beauty therapy service
• Demonstrate knowledge of significant milestones in the history of beauty therapy services and related products.
• Describe the relevance of anatomy and physiology knowledge to performing facial treatments and massage treatments.
• Maintain the cleanliness and level of supplies in the beauty salon.

Note: Some unit standards may change. Final information on the standards specific to your course will be available prior to starting your programme.
If circumstances change there could be a mix models of delivery e.g online, face to face one day per week or block options.