Welcome to Beauty Therapy NVQ

The glamorous world of beauty therapy offers a number of fun and exciting opportunities. A career in beauty therapy could be your passport to success. Imagine being able to choose to work in a range of different fields such as:

• Cruising the world while working as a beauty therapist on a Cruise Liner
• Running your own salon
• Work in the luxury market at a day spa or health farm
• A lecturer teaching beauty therapy at a college another training center.

You may choose to work from home as a freelance beauty therapist, or you may like the pace and glamour of working in a high end city salon.

Once qualified you could specialise as a make-up artist working in film, television or theatre. You may be spellbound by the world of nail artistry and train as a nail technician. Enjoy the art of massage extending your skills to aromatherapy. Every fashion model show needs a make-up artist – with a little dedication this could be you!

Once specialised, many therapists wish to expand their skills even further into advanced techniques: as an electrologist you can learn to remove thread veins and warts; as an aromatherapist you can learn Shiatsu, Reiki or Indian Head massage.
The possibilities are endless and the choice is yours.

Now you have decided that this is the career path you are after, you will need a Beauty Therapy NVQ. You will need to find a salon or NVQ training provider that offers National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) in Beauty Therapy.

You will work in a salon to gain practical experience and have regular assessments to see how you are progressing. The assessments take place either in the salon or with the training provider.

NVQs are developed by employers to ensure that staffs are properly skilled in their particular area of expertise.

Employers value NVQ because they prove that you can do your job to a high standard - the standard that your industry requires. It also shows an employer that you are committed to your career and training and have invested time in gaining the relevant qualifications.