All sounds a bit confusing to me!! If it helps, (prob not) the beauty academy that I trained in does a creative spa mani and pedi course, but you are not allowed to go on it if you do not have a mani/pedi qualification like vtct/nvq etc. They also do the creative l+p course, but again you have to have a mani/pedi certificate. They discribe it on their prospectus as "product knowledge and procedure to use the creative spa range". Probably best to phone creative to clarify.