Beauty Therapy Level 2

Start Date: 01/09/2025
Course is for: School Leaver
Course Length: 1 Year
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Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey towards becoming a qualified beauty therapist?

Join our professional team at our state-of-the-art salon Botanica, our commercial salon, and immerse yourself in our comprehensive beauty course designed to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to excel in the beauty industry.

At Botanica, you’ll benefit from hands-on training in a real-world salon environment, gaining practical experience and insight from our expert team of beauty professionals.

Our tailored curriculum focuses on both technical proficiency and soft skills development, ensuring you’re well-rounded and prepared to deliver exceptional services to clients.

Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll learn in our beauty course:

Facial Skin Therapy – Dive into the art of facial skin therapy, learning advanced techniques to rejuvenate and enhance the skin’s natural beauty.

Eye Treatments – Delve into eye treatments, including lash extensions, tinting, and eyebrow shaping, to create stunning eye transformations that captivate and allure.

Waxing Techniques – Learn both warm waxing and hot waxing techniques, mastering the art of hair removal with precision and care.

Tanning – Discover the techniques behind flawless tanning, including both spray tanning and manual tanning. Learn how to prepare the skin, apply tanning products evenly, and deliver safe, natural-looking results across a variety of skin types.

Nail Art – Develop your creative flair with nail art, applying a range of techniques such as freehand painting, dotting, marbling, stamping, and embellishment. Enhance your designs using colour theory and nail trends to create eye-catching looks for every occasion.

Manicure and Pedicure – Perfect your manicure and pedicure skills, offering clients pampering treatments that leave hands and feet looking and feeling fabulous.

Gel Nail Application – Master the techniques of gel nail application, creating durable and beautiful nail enhancements that stand out.

In addition to technical training, you’ll also develop essential customer service skills, including:

Product and Service Promotion – Learn effective strategies for promoting products and services, enhancing client satisfaction and boosting salon sales.

Workplace Effectiveness – Gain insights into maximising productivity and efficiency in the workplace, ensuring smooth salon operations.

Health and Safety Protocols – Prioritise client and staff safety with comprehensive training on health and safety practices in the salon environment.

Reception Management – Acquire essential reception management skills, ensuring seamless client bookings, inquiries, and salon administration.

Effective Communication – Enhance your communication skills, building strong relationships with clients and colleagues alike.

Team Collaboration – Learn the importance of teamwork and collaboration in the beauty industry, fostering a supportive and cohesive salon environment.

You’ll also have the opportunity to take part in extra training to add to your skillset in particular areas such as Caflon Ear Piercing or lash extensions with Lash Lift and brow lamination.

There may be a small charge for this extra training.

Assessment

Throughout the course, we’ll monitor your progress and provide constructive feedback to help you to improve where needed.

We’ll measure your skills and knowledge against nationally recognised standards specific to the beauty industry.

We assess you in a range of ways including practical tasks in our commercial on site salon Botanica and projects from which you’ll create a portfolio of evidence and written coursework and assignments.

Required Entry Qualifications

Four GCSE grades 4-9. Plus an informal interview with a member of our teaching team.

The Teaching Team

All courses are delivered by highly skilled and experienced salon team who design their sessions to accomodate all different learning abilities, wherever possible.

Work Experience & Employer Partners

Our network of employer partners and professional brands includes:

Eve Taylor London
St Tropez
Steiner Skincare
Sleek Make-up and Spa
City Retreat

Working with these employers means you learn the most up to date techniques and we’re able to source brilliant work experience opportunities.

Facilities, Kit And Equipment

All practical sessions will be taught within our on site professional standard salon, Botanica where you’ll work as part of the professional salon team, servicing paying clients.

You’ll wear a salon uniform during the course and use a professional kit.

Sustainability

Check out how we are embedding sustainability throughout our hair and beauty courses:

We’re a part of the Green Salon Collective, a company that offer Zero-to-Landfill Salon Recycling Solutions for Hairdressers.
Our hair, foils and metal tubes are recycled.
We use eco-heads, shower heads that reduce water use by around 70%.
Our beauty supplier is Eve Taylor and for every product we buy, they plant a tree.
We don’t print our learning portfolios, they’re all online.
We use the Wella Hero platform, which helps the students gain knowledge on all aspects education in the hair industry including sustainable salon operations.

Next Steps

After the course, you’ll be able to seek employment as a qualified beauty therapist, progress to an apprenticeship or continue your training on one of or Level 3 courses in beauty therapy, media make-up or nail technology.

Fast Track to an Apprenticeship
If you’d like to do an apprenticeship but can’t find a vacancy to suit you, don’t worry.

You can start on this course and then fast-track to an apprenticeship part-way through once a vacancy becomes available and if you’re making good progress on the course.

Costs (excluding Fees)

You’ll need to buy a uniform and a professional kit.

We’ll let you know the prices during the application process and help you to source these items through our preferred suppliers, ensuring you get the best value for money.

Funding support is also available to those who meet the eligibility criteria. Ask us for more information at out enrolment events.

There may be an extra charge for any additional training you choose to do with us, for example Caflon Ear Piercing or lash extensions with LashLift.

We’ll share all prices with you before you sign up.