A Head Start to Hairdressing

1. Client services

• Provide service to clients
• Prepare clients for salon services

2. Salon retail skills

• Conduct financial transactions
• Perform calculations
• Work effectively in a retail environment
• Sell products and services
• Close the sale

3. Communication in the workplace

• Communicate with clients
• Communicate on the telephone
• Communicate ethics and values

4. Workplace personal health and safety

• Understand the importance of occupational health and safety (OHS)
• Prevent injuries in the workplace
• Prevent and report accidents
• Apply first aid
• Appendix: Hazards checklist

5. Haircutting techniques

• Understand haircut designs
• Distribute and section the hair
• Use tools and razors
• Apply solid form, graduated and layered haircuts
• Use other cutting techniques

6. Hair design

Part 1: Short and medium-length hair

• Understand hair design
• Create hair designs
• Roller placement and blow-drying

Part 2: Design and apply long hair design finishes

• Understand hair design
• Create hair designs

7. Colouring hair

• Understand the fundamentals of colour
• Select and apply hair colour
• Select and apply semi-permanent hair colour
• Select and apply permanent hair colour

8. Lightening and highlighting the hair

• Understand and apply lighteners and highlights
• Perform colour correction

9. Chemical curling, volumising, straightening and relaxing services

• Understand and perform permanent waves
• Straighten and relax hair

10. Hairdressing science

• Understand the functions and structure of skin
• Understand the functions and structure of hair

11. Cosmetic chemistry and hairdressing products

• Understand the chemistry and effect of hair products

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