weezie
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I have been looking into hairdressing for a while now and am going to do a 18 week basic womens cutting course and a 16 week barbering course (simultaneously- one on tuesday nights and one on wednesday nights) at my local college to see if I would be any good but it doesn't lead to any formal qualifications although it is run by the same tutors as the NVQ course. I can't do the NVQ as my local one only runs in the day time and I have a mobile beauty business to run in the day.
I have been researching and most of the well know brand e.g wella, run top up hair courses but these require you to have an NVQ and after the evening courses I'd like to do more training obviously.
My questions are:
Many of the well known hairdressers claim to have no formal qualifications themselves- can they just get insurance as they are so well known? or how do they do it?
Also if you find you have a talent for hairdressing, practice loads but then want to work on the public can you get a qualification by going straight to the exams as say you would if you wanted to take a GCSE or A-Level (you'd just pay for the exam). Are there any hairdressing qualifications you can take if you don't go down the normal route if say you are trained by a skilled hairdresser as an apprentice but didn't get a formal qualification at the end?
Please advise me as I am just searching the internet to no avail!:hug:
I have been researching and most of the well know brand e.g wella, run top up hair courses but these require you to have an NVQ and after the evening courses I'd like to do more training obviously.
My questions are:
Many of the well known hairdressers claim to have no formal qualifications themselves- can they just get insurance as they are so well known? or how do they do it?
Also if you find you have a talent for hairdressing, practice loads but then want to work on the public can you get a qualification by going straight to the exams as say you would if you wanted to take a GCSE or A-Level (you'd just pay for the exam). Are there any hairdressing qualifications you can take if you don't go down the normal route if say you are trained by a skilled hairdresser as an apprentice but didn't get a formal qualification at the end?
Please advise me as I am just searching the internet to no avail!:hug: