Level 2

Course Overviews

VTCT Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy General 

This qualification will provide you with the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to work competently as a beauty therapist. Throughout this qualification you will ensure responsibility to reduce risks to health and safety, promote additional services or products to clients, develop and maintain your effectiveness at work, provide facial skincare treatment, enhance the appearance of eyebrows and lashes, carry out waxing services and provide pedicure and manicure services.

Mandatory units covered:

  • Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety 
  • Promote additional products or services to customers 
  • Develop and maintain effectiveness at work 
  • Provide facial skin care treatment 
  • Enhance the appearance of eyebrows and eyelashes 
  • Carry out waxing services 
  • Provide manicure services 
  • Provide pedicure services

Optional units

  • Provide make-up services 
  • Fulfil salon reception duties

     

    VTCT Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy Make-Up

    This qualification will provide you with the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to work competently as a beauty therapist specialising in make-up. 

    Throughout this qualification you will ensure responsibility to reduce risks to health and safety, promote additional services or products to clients, develop and maintain your effectiveness at work, provide facial skin care treatments, enhance the appearance of eyebrows and lashes, provide make-up services and instruct clients in the use and application of skin care products and make-up.

    Mandatory units covered:

    • Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety 
    • Promote additional products or services to customers 
    • Develop and maintain effectiveness at work 
    • Provide facial skin care treatment 
    • Enhance the appearance of eyebrows and eyelashes 
    • Provide make-up services 
    • Instruct clients in the use and application of skin care products and make-up

    Optional unit

    • Enhance appearance using skin camouflage

    VTCT Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Specialist Techniques 

    The Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Specialist Techniques is a qualification that has been specifically designed to develop your practical skills in; how to provide eyelash and brow treatments, removing hair using waxing techniques, applying make-up, manicure, pedicure and skincare. 

    To further enhance your practical skills you will have the opportunity to choose from the following practical units; the application of tanning techniques, instruction on make-up application, removing hair using alternatives to wax such as threading or sugaring, eyelash perming, ear piercing or the creative skill of nail art.

    The purpose of this qualification is to develop your skills in beauty therapy to a high level of occupational ability, to enable you to perform your own salon services.

    Mandatory units covered:

    • Follow health and safety practice in the salon 
    • Client care and communication in beauty related industries 
    • Provide manicure treatments 
    • Provide pedicure treatments 
    • Apply make-up 
    • Provide eyelash and brow treatments 
    • Provide facial skin care 
    • Remove hair using waxing techniques 
    • Salon reception duties

    Optional units

      • Display stock to promote sales in a salon 
      • Instruction on make-up application 
      • Create an image based on a theme within the hair and beauty sector

    VTCT Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Therapy Studies

    The Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Therapy Studies is a qualification that has been specifically designed to develop your practical skills by covering the following mandatory units; facial skincare, waxing, eyelash and eyebrow treatments, manicure, pedicure, client care and health and safety. To further enhance your practical skills you will have the opportunity to choose from the following optional units

    Mandatory units covered:

    • Follow health and safety practice in the salon 
    • Client care and communication in beauty related industries 
    • Provide facial skincare 
    • Remove hair using waxing techniques 
    • Provide eyelash and brow treatments 
    • Provide manicure treatments 
    • Provide pedicure treatments

    Optional units

    • Apply make-up
    • Instruction on make-up application

        VTCT Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Therapy Studies (Make-Up

        The VTCT Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Therapy Studies (Make-up) is a qualification that has been specifically designed to develop your practical skills by covering the following mandatory units; applying make-up, instruction on make-up, the art of photographic make-up, client care and health and safety. 

        To further enhance your practical skills you will have the opportunity to choose from the following optional units; the application of tanning techniques, removing hair using alternatives to wax such as threading or sugaring, eyelash perming, ear piercing or the creative skill of nail art.

        Mandatory units covered:

            • Follow health and safety practice in the salon 
            • Client care and communication in beauty related industries 
            • Apply make-up 
            • Provide facial skincare 
            • The art of photographic make-up 
            • Instruction on make-up application

        Optional units

            • Salon reception duties 
            • Apply skin tanning techniques 
            • Provide eyelash perming 
            • Provide eyelash and brow treatments 
            • Display stock to promote sales in a salon

        Other Level 2 Courses

        We can provide courses on any of the individual units within L2 qualifications including but not exclusively:

         

        VTCT Level 2 Award in Eyelash Perming

        VTCT Level 2 Award in LED Gel Nail Polish Techniques

        VTCT Level 2 Award in Skin Tanning Techniques

        VTCT Level 2 Award in Thermal Auricular Therapy