VTCT Skills
Level 3
QN: 500/8813/0
Curriculum Active
VTCT Skills Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy Make-Up
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by VTCT Skills. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 882 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
VTCT Skills
Syllabus Units
16 Units
Guided Hours
882 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to massage the body using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to consult with clients
- Be able to prepare to carry out massages using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to massage treatments
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict massages using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to use pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand the principles behind massage techniques using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
2
Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Contribute to the effective use and monitoring of resources
- Be able to meet productivity and development targets
- Understand salon procedures and legal requirements
- Understand the use, monitoring and recording of resources
- Understand effective methods of communication
- Understand work and time management
- Understand productivity and development targets
3
Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to contribute to the planning and preparation of promotional activities
- Be able to implement promotional activities
- Be able to participate in the evaluation of promotional activities
- Understand the venue and legal requirements
- Understand how to plan and prepare promotional events
- Understand how to sell products and services
- Understand communication techniques
- Understand evaluation methods and techniques
4
Design and create fashion and photographic make-up
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to plan and design a range of make-up looks
- Be able to produce a range of make-up looks
- Be able to evaluate results against the design plan objectives
- Understand how to communicate on fashion and photographic make-up
- Understand health and safety related to fashion and photographic make-up
- Understand the importance of planning and problem solving when designing and creating fashion and photographic make-up
- Understand how to design and develop make up looks
- Understand how to evaluate fashion and photographic make-up looks
5
Monitor procedures to safely control work operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- be able to check that health and safety instructions are followed
- be able to recommend changes to health and safety workplace instructions.
- be able to make sure that hazards and risks are controlled safely and effectively.
- know how to monitor procedures to safely control work operations
6
Plan and provide airbrush make-up
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing airbrush make-up
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for airbrush make-up
- Be able to apply airbrush make-up
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing airbrush make-up services
- understand how to consult
- Understand airbrush make-up equipment, products and techniques
- Understand the application of airbrush make-up
- Understand the aftercare advice to provide for airbrush make-up services
7
Provide Body Electrical Treatments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe methods of working when providing body electrical treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to carry out body electrical treatments
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing body electrical treatments
- Understand how to perform client consultation, planning and preparation
- Understand the anatomy and physiology for body electrical treatments
- Understand contra-indications that affect or restrict body electrical treatments
- Understand equipment, materials, products and treatment specific knowledge
- Be able to provide aftercare advice
8
Provide facial electrical treatments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing facial electrical treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to carry out facial electricaltreatments
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for providing facial electrical treatments
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing facial electrical treatments
- Understand how to perform client consultation, treatment planning and preparation
- Understand anatomy and physiology that relates to facial electrical treatments
- Understand the contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict facial electrical treatments
- Understand how to carry out facial electrical treatments
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
9
Provide female intimate waxing services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when waxing
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for waxing with clients, 3 Be able to remove unwanted hair, 4 understand organisational and legal requirements
- understand how to work safely and effectively when providing waxing services, 6 understand how to consult
- plan and prepare for female intimate waxing services, 7 understand the anatomy and physiology that relates to intimate waxing, 8 understand contra-indications and contra-actions to intimate waxing services, 9 understand equipment and materials for intimate waxing
- understand intimate waxing services and aftercare advice
10
Provide Indian head Massage
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing Indian head Massage
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to perform Indian head massage
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for providing Indian head massage
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing Indian Head Massage
- Understand how to consult with clients
- Understand how to prepare for providing Indian head massages
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to Indian head massages
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict body massage treatments
- Understand different Indian head massage mediums
- Understand the principles of Indian head massage
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
11
Provide male intimate waxing services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when waxing
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for waxing with clients, 3 Be able to remove unwanted hair
- understand organisational and legal requirements
- understand how to work safely and effectively when providing waxing services, 6 understand how to consult
- plan and prepare for male intimate waxing services, 7 understand the anatomy and physiology that relates to intimate waxing, 8 understand contra-indications and contra-actions to intimate waxing services, 9.
- understand equipment and materials for intimate waxing
- understand intimate waxing services and aftercare advice
12
Provide self-tanning services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing self-tanning treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to apply self tan products
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing self tanning services
- Understand how to perform client consultation, treatment planning and preparation
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict self-tanning services
- Understand self-tanning products and equipment
- Understand self-tanning treatments and the effect they have on the skin
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
13
Provide single eyelash extension treatments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing single eyelash extension treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for eyelash extension treatments with clients
- Be able to attach single lash systems
- Be able to maintain and remove single lash systems
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for providing eyelash extension treatments
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing single lash systems treatments
- Understand how to use client consultation, treatment planning and preparation for eyelash treatments
- Understand the contra-indications and contra-actions of eyelash extensions
- Understand anatomy and physiology relevant to eyelash treatments
- Understand the use of equipment and materials for single eyelash extension treatments
- Understand how to attach
- maintain and remove single lash systems
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice following single eyelash extension treatments
14
Provide specialist skin camouflage services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain effective and safe methods of working when providing specialist skin camouflage
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for specialist cosmetic skin camouflage
- Be able to carry out specialist cosmetic skin camouflage
- Be able to instruct and advise the client on cosmetic skin camouflage techniques
- Be able to evaluate the success of camouflage instruction
- Be able to provide aftercare advice
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing skin camouflage
- Understand the use of client consultation, treatment planning and preparation for specialist skin camouflage services
- Understand the anatomy and physiology relevant to skin camouflage
- Understand the importance of psychology to skin camouflage
- Understand the contra-indications and contra-actions of skin camouflage
- Understand the use of skin camouflage
- Understand the skills used to instruct skin camouflage
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice for clients following skin camouflage services
- Understand how to evaluate the success of skin camouflage instruction
15
Provide stone therapy treatments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing stone therapy treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to perform stone therapytreatments
- Understand organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing stone therapy treatments
- Understand how to consult with clients
- Understand how to prepare to provide stone therapy treatments
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to stone therapy treatments
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict stone therapy treatments
- Understand how to use stone therapy equipment
- Understand the principles behind stone therapy techniques and how to use them
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
16
Provide UV tanning services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing UV tanning treatments
- Be able to consult
- plan and prepare for treatments with clients
- Be able to monitor UV tanning treatments
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for providing UV tanning services
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing UV tanning services
- Understand how to perform client consultation, treatment planning and preparation
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict UV tanning services
- Understand how to prepare and use UV tanning equipment and materials
- Understand anatomy and physiology that relates to UV tanning services
- Understand how UV tanning treatments work
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 500/8813/0
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- VTCT Skills
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Aug 2010
- Operational End
- Jul 2026