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Hairdressing Training in Levels 2 & 3

Introduction to Hairdressing Level 2

Level 2:

This Level 2 Hairdressing Course offers students a foundation within the sector. If you have an interest in becoming a hairdresser but still not totally sure as to whether this is the right career move, then this course in Hairdressing will provide a platform to work off.

This hairdressing course allows students to complete fully from home over 12+ weeks depending on your underpinning knowledge.

Students also have access to a dedicated tutor via Zoom or email with whom they may correspond with to answer any queries. Includes Interactive Livestream for the Practical Unit.

Colour theory is covered in Level 2 hairdressing courses. It includes understanding the basics of colour, such as primary, secondary, and tertiary colours, as well as how to mix and apply them to achieve desired hair colours. This foundational knowledge is essential for creating beautiful and accurate hair colour results.

Level 3:

Level 3 will suit the more experienced hairdresser.

Level 3 is ideal if you've worked in hairdressing for some time and want to develop your skills in a specialised area. You might want a broader knowledge or to learn a particular technique.

  • Level 3 Training in Women's Hairdressing
  • Level 3 Training in Hairdressing for Colour Technicians
  • Level 3 Training in Hairdressing for Cutting and Styling Technicians
  • Level 3 Certificate in Hair Colour and Colour Correction

How it Works

In-Salon Training or Online Training. If you opt for online training, you will access your course lessons using our online learning platform, you can access all of your correspondence, FAQ and general course guidance. Our platform can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection 24/7.


The Fundamentals Level 1 Hairdressing

If you do not have underpinning Hairdressing Knowledge Included in the fee is:

The Fundamentals Level 1 Hairdressing course covers the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to start a career in hairdressing.
Course content as below:

  1. Health and Safety: Understanding and maintaining health and safety practices in the salon.
  2. Shampooing and Conditioning: Techniques for shampooing and conditioning hair.
  3. Blow-Drying: Basic blow-drying techniques to style hair.
  4. Assisting with Hair Colouring: Supporting more experienced stylists with hair colouring services.
  5. Salon Reception Duties: Assisting with reception duties and customer service.
  6. Maintaining Work Areas: Keeping the salon clean and organised.
  7. Developing Professionalism: Learning the behaviours and attitudes expected of a professional hairdresser.

These foundational skills are designed to prepare you for further training and a successful career in hairdressing


Additional Information

Are Payment Plans available?

Yes. We use Klarna and Clearpay Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). 

  1. Level 2 Hairdressing Online (BNPL): Click HERE
  2. Level 2 Hairdressin In-Salon (BNPL) Click HERE
  3. Level 3 Hairdressin Online  (BNPL) Click HERE
  4. Level 3 Hairdressing In-Salon (BNPL) Click HERE

After your (BNPL) payment has been made your Welcome email with immediate enrolment link will be emailed to you.

The Fundamentals Level 1 Hairdressing

If you do not have underpinning Hairdressing Knowledge Included in the fee is:

The Fundamentals Level 1 Hairdressing course covers the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to start a career in hairdressing.
Course content as below:

  1. Health and Safety: Understanding and maintaining health and safety practices in the salon.
  2. Shampooing and Conditioning: Techniques for shampooing and conditioning hair.
  3. Blow-Drying: Basic blow-drying techniques to style hair.
  4. Assisting with Hair Colouring: Supporting more experienced stylists with hair colouring services.
  5. Salon Reception Duties: Assisting with reception duties and customer service.
  6. Maintaining Work Areas: Keeping the salon clean and organised.
  7. Developing Professionalism: Learning the behaviours and attitudes expected of a professional hairdresser.

These foundational skills are designed to prepare you for further training and a successful career in hairdressing

How does our Level 2 & 3 Hairdressing Online Courses work?

Your Practical Sessions will be ONE TO ONE with your personal One to One Tutor via Interactive Livestream Zooms. Your tutor will demonstrate all Practical Units and guide you through each at your own pace. Our Tutors are highly skilled in delivering online classes to colleges and salons. You will be gaining access to the best tutors.

Level 2 students will need Underpinning Hairdressing Knowledge to complete our Level 2 Online Course. If no Underpinning Hairdressing Knowledge then you will need to enrol into our In-Salon Class.

You are allotted around 20-30 hours per month (GLH Guided Learning Hours) for your Practical classes with your Tutor. Each Practical session timescale is geared towards each student's learning abilities. Your Practical Sessions are UNLIMITED until you gain the knowledge and understanding to pass.

Your Case Studies will be on Head Blocks and Live models. Your tutor will give you the criteria's and some may be cross assessed.

Your Theory Units are completed online. After you enrol your tutor will reach out to you to carry out a Training Needs Analysis (TNS) and book your first Practical Session. Each Practical session timescale is geared towards each student's ability. 

Practical sessions may be Weekdays, Evenings or Sundays whichever works best for you. Course duration is 3/6-12+months depending on each learner abilities. 

After you purchase your course you will be emailed your Welcome email and immediate enrolment link. Your tutor will reach out to you to carry out your Training Needs Analysis (TNS) and discuss your Practical Sessions then your Practical Sessions dates will be agreed. Your Practical Sessions are booked around your current commitments. Available days are Weekdays, Evenings and Sundays.

Should you wish to enrol, click HERE.

We also offer Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) with Klarna and Clearpay via the following links. Powered by Stripe so you will need to click the required button on the right hand side: 10% DISCOUNTED until 31st August 2024.

  1. Level 2 Hairdressing Online (BNPL): Click HERE
  2. Level 2 Hairdressing In-Salon (BNPL): Click HERE
  3. Level 3 Hairdressing Online (BNPL): Click HERE
  4. Level 3 Hairdressing In-Salon (BNPL): Click HERE

After your (BNPL) payment has been made your Welcome email with immediate enrolment link will be emailed to you.

About us

We are a fast- track training Academy. Our courses lead to a verified standard that you can rely on.  Created to train students in the arts of esthetics and hair.  Our sole focus is to provide fast track expert training to help you improve your business results.                                                         

Leading to a verified standard that you can rely on with external independent accreditation.

Our relationship with our students does not finish at the end of a course, we provide ongoing support by phone and email to help students maximise their investment in their performance. We look forward to helping you meet the needs of your business no matter how large or small.

Level 2 Course Syllabus

Intro to the Hairdressing Industry Level 2 Accreditation

  • This Level 2 Hairdressing Course offers students a foundation within the sector.
  • If you have an interest in becoming a hairdresser but still not totally sure as to whether this is the right career move, then this course in Hairdressing will provide a platform to work off.
  • ​This distance learning hairdressing course allows students to complete fully from home over a 6-12 month period.
  • Students also have access to a dedicated tutor via email with whom they may correspond with to answer any queries.

Colour theory is covered in Level 2 hairdressing courses. It includes understanding the basics of colour, such as primary, secondary, and tertiary colours, as well as how to mix and apply them to achieve desired hair colours. This foundational knowledge is essential for creating beautiful and accurate hair colour results.

Learners will complete 10 units of study in total as listed below.

26 tutor marked assignments to complete plus online Knowledge Tests

Unit 1: Health and Safety in the Salon

  • Hazards and risks
  • Responsibilities of various salon staff
  • Health and safety regulations
  • Importance of personal presentation
  • Safe working practices in the salon
  • Sterilisation of equipment

 Unit 2: Presenting a Professional Image

  • Positive and negative examples of verbal and non-verbal communication
  • Creating a professional image
  • How negative attitude and behaviour affects clients
  • How lifestyle plays an important part in portraying a professional image

Unit 3: Client Consultation

  • Main hairdressing services
  • Basic hair types, textures and growth patterns
  • Hair tests and consequences of failure to do so
  • Adverse hair and scalp conditions
  • Infections and infestations

Unit 4: Services Offered in the Salon

  • Procedures in preparing the client
  • Procedures in preparing the backwash area
  • The structure of the hair
  • Basic shampooing and conditioning techniques
  • Techniques and products to suit particular hair and scalp types

Unit 5: Styling hair

  • Basic face shapes and suggest suitable hairstyles for each
  • Basic styling techniques
  • Styling products and their uses
  • Research a variety of styles and explain the techniques used to achieve them

Unit 6: The Art of Colouring Hair

  • The Art of Colouring Hair
  • Colour and Lighten Hair Introduction

Unit 7: Cutting Techniques

  • Cutting Chapter: Variety of Techniques to create a Variety of Looks
  • Pivot Point Props Visual Learners - 4 Main Cutting Forms/Shapes
  • Level 2: Unit Seven - Cutting Techniques - Cutting Effect - Test your knowledge
  • Level 2: Unit Seven - Cutting Techniques - Cutting Angles - Test your knowledge
  • Level 2: Unit Seven - Cutting Techniques - Cutting Shapes - Test your knowledge
  • Level 2: Unit Seven - Cutting Techniques - Cutting Angles - Test your knowledge
  • Level 2: Unit Seven - Cross Checking - Test your knowledge
  • LEVEL 2 Practical Cutting Project

Unit 8: Cutting Hair

  • 1.1a 1 Length Cut
  • One Length Cut - Demonstration
  • 1.1b 1 Length Cut Rounded from Square
  • One Length Cut Rounded from Square - Demonstration
  • 1.1c 1 Length with Forward Graduation
  • One Length with Forward Graduation - Demonstration
  • 1.1d Natural Inversion
  • Natural Inversion - Demonstration
  • 1.1e Increased Layer Transient Length
  • Increased Layer/Transient Length - Demonstration
  • 1.1f Square Layer
  • Square Layer - Demonstration
  • Bonus Module (Level 3!!): Creatively Cut Hair using a Combination of Techniques
  • Test your Knowledge

Unit 9: Colours

  • Full Head Colour
  • Regrowth full head colour
  • Woven highlights or lowlights / Cap
  • Toner/Gloss

Unit 10: Career Prospects in the Hairdressing Industry

  • Range of careers in the hairdressing industry
  • Staffing structure of a hairdressing business
  • Research a hairdressing job role in detail
  • Personal and professional skills required in a particular hairdressing job

Unit 11: Practical Modules

Level 3 Course Syllabus

Level 3 Hairdressing Cutting & Colouring Range

Unit 1 Root Melts

Unit 2 Creative Colours x3

Unit 3 Corrective Highlights

Unit 4 Pre-Pigment

Unit 5 Removal of Artificial Colour

Unit 6 Regrowth Lightener

Unit 7 Balayage

Unit 8 Creative Cuts x 6

 

The range that you must cover: -

Colouring

Products

Effects

X2 Correction Products

X2 Correction Techniques

Quasi

Slicing

Semi Permanent

Restoring Depth & Tone

Permanent

Block Colour

Quasi Permanent

Neutralising Colour Tone

Lighteners

Weaving

Permanent

Colouring Resistant Hair

Toners

 

 

 

 

Cutting x 6 Different Restyle Cuts 1 of which must be a Precision Cut.

Tools

Hair

X7 of the techniques

Scissors

Wet

Graduating

Clippers

Dry

Layering

Razor

Curly

Tapering

 

Straight

Club Cutting

 

 

Scissor Over Comb

 

 

Clipper Over Comb

 

 

Thinning

 

 

Freehand

 

 

Texturising

 

 

Disconnecting

Fashion Cutting

 

This Hairdressing Course Enables you to

THEORY: 

State the most common types of risks and hazards in a hairdressing salon and be confident in taking such action to minimise the occurrence of accidents and spillages.

Discuss the best ways of adopting and promoting a professional image through communication, behaviour, dress and team working.

Explain the processes involved in client consultation and the reasons for these methods.

List and discuss a variety of services available to clients in the hairdressing salon and consider the promotion of additional products and services.

Explain the importance of clear communication and the main tasks involved in salon reception duties.

List and describe the main roles and career paths in the hairdressing industry.

PRACTICAL UNIT 7:

Tinting, Highlighting, Blow-drying, Cutting, balayage Followed by assessments.

BASIC COLOURING INCLUDES:

Foiling and basic colour techniques.

ADVANCED COLOURING TECHNIQUES INCLUDES:

Balayage, Baby lights, Root melts etc.

YOUR KIT INCLUDES A TRAINING BLOCK:

Guided Learning Hours (GLH) – 80 Hours Total Accredited Time (TQT) – 100 Hours

The unit summary can be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if students wishes to progress their studies in this sector.

Tutors & Support

All learners have access to a qualified tutor via email for the stated support period. In addition to this, you will be able to speak to our support team via telephone with any query you may have relating your course. In addition to your allocated Interactive Livestream for the Practical Unit.

Our tutors and support team have years of experience in delivering online and distance learning courses. If you require help, then we are only a phone call away.

Assessment

Learners will be required to complete a series of tutor-marked assignments, (usually 1 after each unit) as they progress through this course. Each assignment will contain a variety of tasks/questions. These assignments are assessed by your tutor to monitor progress. You will be provided with constructive feedback to help you in completing each unit to the required standard.

There is no examination to complete as the course is completed using continual assessment.

Locations

Location ONE Kilmarnock, Scotland -  Red Hair Salon, 15 St Marnock Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, KA1 1DZ

Location TWO  Glasgow - Merchant City:  Sean Marshall Hair, Glasgow (Merchant City), G1 1LQ

Location THREE Cardiff - 209 Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, CF11 9AJ 

Location FIVE - Bedford - Vanity Salon Ampthill, 3-5, Kings Arm Yard, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2PJ

Location SIX - Swindon - 114 Victoria Rd, Old Town, Swindon SN1 3BH

Location SEVEN - Limavady, Belfast - Limavady BT49 0EY

Location EIGHT - Cornwall - 3 The Gounce, Perranporth TR6 0JW

Location NINE - EDINBURGH - Coming Soon

Location TEN - FIFE Cowdenbeath - 39 Aberdour Rd, Burntisland KY3 0EL and 11 GlebeRoad, Cowdenbeath, Fife, KY4 9FA - Coming Soon

Location ELEVEN - HEMEL HEMPSTEAD - 36, The Queen's Square, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 4ER

Location TWELVE - NOTTINGHAM - 22 Tamworth Road, Nottingham, NG1, 1JJ Limited Availability.

Kits are included within your course

Your kit will be posted out to you when your Tutor reaches out to you for your Training Needs Analysis.  

Kit list (included in your fee):

  1. Training Head with Table Clamp;
  2. Butterfly Clips x12;
  3. Water spray bottle;
  4. Section Clips x10
  5. Comb;
  6. Vent brush;
  7. Grips Paddle brush;
  8. Hair Cutting Cape; 
  9. Styling brush;
  10. Hairdressing Scissors

There is an additional £55 for ALL your Colour Products.

Colour Products List:

1x 1.9% peroxide
1x 3% peroxide
1x 6% peroxide
1x foils
1x permanent
1x demi
1x toner

Course Resources

Your Course Resources to complete your assignments will be within your Course Area. Which works alongside your Study Guide Book. Your Study Guide Book will be posted out to you immediately upon course enrolment.

GUIDED LEARNING HOURS (GLH) and Course Duration

GLH will be 20-30+ hours per month depending on your learning abilities.

 

What do I need to teach Hairdressing?

You will need your Level 3 in Hairdressing Qualification plus a Teacher Trainer Qualification Assessor Verifier Award D32.

Why choose SW Hair Training Academy?

Trading since 2013 

Support: 1-year support included

Start Date: Anytime - We enroll 365 days a year

Qualified Tutors – Fast assignment turnaround

Specification: Certificate of Achievement

Fee: £850 online £1050 In-Salon.

Our Brand Values

Mission

Our mission is to provide our clients and students with a high quality educational and Business Development experience that is TRANSFORMATIVEINNOVATIVE. Taking your business to the Next Level and Scale with ease and help to develop and IMPROVE SKILLS.

Vision

To provide high quality affordable education that empowers students to be confident in their skills and financially independent so they can expand or open their own business or take their business to the Next Level and Scale with ease.

Brand Values

Our brand values are Caring for our Customers. We do not just offer Business Development, Training and Education, We offer full SUPPORT. At SW Hair Training Academy, our goal is that students and clients feel they are not Learning or Scaling alone. We stand for ‘An Excellent and Supportive growth and learning Experience’. We SUPPORT our students and clients by helping them build and scale their Business, Hair Extensions and Hairdressing skills by teaching them how to grow their business after their training or working with us. We do this by ensuring our students and clients have everything they need to be successful in their business, These are our values and why we stand out from other Business Development and Training Academy’s. SUPPORT in both Education and Business Growth. We help students and clients become highly skilled and financially independent.

LEADERSHIP:  Leading by example.

INTEGRITY: Our courses are full of quality information.

INCLUSIVITY: Providing affordable education so everyone can learn.

COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION: Quality educational learning experience.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS: Opportunities don't happen. You create them."-- Chris Grosser

QUALITY EDUCATION: Created by experts in the field.

INNOVATIVE: Constantly growing and improving.

BUILDING BUSINESSES:  Creating independent entrepreneurs.

TRANSFORMATIVE:  Become the best we can be.