THEORY & PRACTICAL

Maintain health and safety practice in the salon
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- The Manual Handling Operations Regulations
- Health and Safety-First Aid Regulations

Client Consultation for Hair Services
- Consultation
- Detailed diagram of the hair
- Hair Growth Cycle
- Client Record Card
- Conditions of the Hair
- Confidentiality
- Data Protection

The Art of Dressing Hair
- COSHH when styling and dressing women’s hair
- Diagram of the hair structure
- Client consultation and factors to consider

Promote products and services to clients in the salon
- Communication
- Personal Presentation
- Selling skills
- Features and benefits
- Continued professional development
- Legislation requirements
- Methods of payment

Working In the Hair Industry
- Salon services
- Employment characteristics
- Career opportunities

Introduction Tools and products

Blow Dry technique
- Blast dry
- Blow dry with paddle brush
- Straight semi blow dry

Blow dry with round Brush
- Straight in curls
- Out curls
- Velcro roller setting

Hair texture and movements

Head shape (Reference point for the head)
- hair line + hair roots
- Growth pattern
- Occipital bone
- Recession
- Top of the head
- Crown
- Nape

Face shape

Terminology (cutting system)
- Parting & Sectioning
- Distribution
- Elevation
- Cut

Shampoo and conditioning the hair and scalp
- Protective clothing for clients
- Health and safety when shampooing and conditioning
- Contact dermatitis
- Shampoo process
- Heat effects on the hair and scalp
- Aftercare advice
- Effective advice
- Sample client record card
- When to shampoo and condition the hair and scalp

Cut women’s hair
- Cutting tools
- Disposal of waste from cutting services
- Cutting angles
- Aftercare advice

Women

- One length: The one length cutting technique is square one level line below the shoulder

- Forwards graduation: Cutting technique is combination of one length at the back and face framing graduation at the front

- Transient length (longest layer): This the longest layer cutting technique to create texture from the top simultaneously maintain the length

- Square layer (medium layer): Cutting technique is for mid length layer

- A symmetrical bob: Cutting technique to create a longer length from the front and shorter length from the back

- Graduated bob: Cutting technique is graduated from the back and little longer from the front

- Pixi: Cutting technique is shortest hair cut from the back and little longer from the top

Cut men’s hair
- Safe and hygienic considerations when cutting men’s hair
- Male pattern baldness
- Clippers and attachments
- In growing hair
- The adult male natural hairline
- How to ensure sideburns are level
- Male client preparation for haircut

Textured crop
- Isolation of the horse shoes section
- Creative of 1-inch perimeter
- Scissors over comb (Use of scissors with a comb to remove weight)

Square graduation
- To build the square shape form the side
- Emphasis on finger placement vertically
- Scissors over comb
Mostly used to maintain the alignment to the curvature of the head
Diwakar Skin fade
Current trend to create blended hair cut in the shortest form
Perm & Neutralize Hair
- Health and safety when perming and neutralizing
- Working safely in the salon
- Client and stylist preparation for a perm service
- Sectioning and winding techniques
- Perm winding
- Client consultation for a perm service
- Contra-indications to perming
- Introduction to polypeptide chains and di-supplied bonds
- The effect of perm lotion on the hair
- The effect of neutralizer on the hair
- Preparing the hair for a perm
- Selecting a perm lotion and neutralizer
- Types of perm lotion and neutralizer
- Perm lotion application methods
- Perm development and rinsing
- Neutralizing process
- Aftercare advice for perm clients

Permanent Hair Straightening

Keratin Smoothening
- Anti-freeze smoothening treatment which creates a lamination on the the surface of the hair

Color and Lighten Hair
- Safety considerations when coloring and lightening
- Example questions for coloring services
- Temporary hair color
- Semi-permanent hair color
- Quasi-permanent hair color
- Permanent hair color
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Effects of lighteners on the hair structure
- Aftercare advice
- Natural color pigments

Global Hair Color
- Global hair color (virgin hair) - Full head color
- Regrowth - short regrowth (mid band touch up), medium regrowth, long regrowth)
- Touch up and color refresh Grey coverage (mid band touch up)

Foiling highlights Techniques
- Four quadrant highlights
o Horizontal parting - Classic full head highlight
o Diagonal forward parting - Teasing highlight

Weaving technique
- Natural weaving technique ( 6 to 10 weaves)
- Textured weaves (4 to 6 weaves)
- Placement weaves (2 to 3 weaves)
- Slicing

Foiling technique (wrapping)
- Single fold technique (basic)
- Double fold technique (advance)
- One over one (basic)
- Classical foiling technique
- Corner fold

Balayage
- Back combing balayage
- Horizontal and diagonal back

Hair treatment