Hair Courses

This course teaches extensions for colour, volume and texture with extensions. A mix of practical and theory with the emphasis on hands-on experience to ensure you complete the session with new skills that can be used in the salon to earn extra profit from hair extensions.

The course covers everything from consultation, colour matching, application, placement patterns and cutting to styling, afetrcare, removal and marketing the service to customers.

The course is fully certified by the HABIA and you will be awarded with a certificate upon completion of the session.

Price includes the following Kit:

• 1 pack of Balmain Human Hair (50 pcs)
• Head
• Brush

A one day course teaching you the theory and practical aspects of the barbershop shave and face massage to professional National Occupational Standards’

Attendees will - by the end of the course - have essential knowledge and understanding of the barbershop shave and face massage and will be proficient in carrying out the tensioning, shaving and massaging of the skin.

Further experience through personal practice sessions are recommended to ensure a confident professional standard is achieved.

1. Introductions / registrations
2. Health & Safety
3. First aid
4. Brief background to the barbershop shave & face massage
5. The required equipment, tools, products & sundries exhibited
6. Client observation, consultation and record card techniques.
7. The all important client preparation procedures
8. How to create and apply hot towels / lather / exfoliating techniques etc.
9. The 14 shaving strokes – practice session
10. The face massage
11. Real time shaving experience on your client
12. Aftercare and product advice

At the end of the course a period of reflection and evaluation will take place ensuring all attendees are confident in carrying out the barbershop shave and face massage service. The student is advised to practice several shaves following the course to ensure confidence, ability and experience.

Attendees will need to provide at least one male model with a reasonable growth of facial hair.

How do you hold on to your clients when there are more and more salons appearing in your town, more freelancers, more in salon promotions and more on-line discount offers? You can certainly update your hairdressing skills and produce a higher standard of work. However, great hair these days will not keep your clients with you. Great hair these days is a given. The only way you will grow your clientele, get them to spend more money with you and get them to return is by exceeding their customer service expectations at every visit.

Are you confident that you and every member of your team delivers the highest of standards on a consistent basis?
What do you promise your client in terms of customer service?
What can they expect once through your door?

This course shows you why customer service is the only way to beat the recession and keep your clientele. We examine each client touchpoint throughout the salon, from the phonecall to book the appointment right through to the invitation to return. We will learn how to give better service to every client by following an easy to implement system.

Banish complacency and poor levels of service by understanding exactly what your client wants from your team members and what she is certainly not prepared to put up with. Implement a Customer Service Promise which will truly upgrade your salon and make it stand out from the competition!

Are you finding that clients are stretching out their haircuts and colours, taking longer between appointments and are generally more reluctant to spend with you?
Are your stylists fully booked every day or do they spend time in the staff room instead of earning money on the salon floor?
Would you like to earn a larger, more regular salary?
If you want to be a busier stylist or have stylists that could be more productive than they currently are, then this course is for you.
This course is designed to show how, in a very simple way, a hairdresser can easily build a column full of clients who are willing to spend. It is all down to how we communicate with them and you will learn just two words which will transform andrevolutionise the way you and your stylists work. Using the advanced communication techniques taught on this course, you will enjoy your work far more, releasing your creativity and potential to avoid doing the same old styles and colours, igniting your passion for producing delighted clients who will return time and time again. We examine what a client truly wants and does not want from you so you can create the perfect environment for your client to feel that she is in the hands of a real expert. We examine which zone you are operating in at work and where you need to be in order to get the best from your clientele. Where do you need to sharpen up?

It is a very simple method of working and will produce far better results for you or your team.You do not have to work longer hours and finish your days exhausted in order to earn a decent living.

This course shows you how easy it can be!

Create it. Shoot it is an informal few days that combines time to refresh and update your knowledge of existing and new Fudge products, as well as experimenting and creating fantastic looks.

As the course name suggests, we have arranged for a make-up artist and photographer to shoot your look, capturing it forever!

Over 3 days you will have the opportunity to stretch your creative muscles, take advantage of great Fudge products and produce looks that you may never have dared to create before.

Every client needs a minimum of four products to manage their hair. How many do you use to manage yours? So why doesn’t every client buy shampoo, conditioner, styling mousse and finishing spray from you? You can learn to overcome all of the objections you have just thought of on this course. We examine all of the reasons why hairdressers do not sell homecare products and why your clients want you to. Your fear of rejection, of closing the sale, the price, being unsure of what to recommend, the list goes on.Most stylists have a very close relationship with their clients and fear that if they try to sell a product to them, the relationship will be ruined in some way. You will learn how to retail without selling, without feeling "pushy", in a very simple and easy way that your clients will welcome and want. We examine the difference between how we as hairdressers view home use products and your clients perception. Learn how to bridge that gap and understand that your client actually wants the advice that you are currently not giving.

Using simple advanced communication techniques that are easy to learn, coupled with how you cut and style your clients hair, you will find recommending homecare products to your clients second nature and wonder what stopped you all of these years! Have a much happier, secure clientele and earn more money without even trying!

This session will provide all levels of hairdressers with a back to basic knowledge and understanding of all aspects of colour. Whether you are in training, returning to the industry or simply want to fully understand how colours work, then this course is for you.

During this theory session we will cover the hair structure, categories of colour, how peroxide and colour work on the hair, how to correctly formulate and most importantly how to ensure that we get the best results for our clients…everytime!

For all stylists including trainees and those returning to the industry wishing to refresh their colour knowledge.

This session takes an in-depth look at problem solving with the objective of building your skills, knowledge and confidence in order to use Headpaint and Paintbox Colour at an advanced level and for corrective colouring. Your newly acquired skills will enable you to provide a more effective, professional and creative colour service to your clients.

Covering everything from the colour wheel and pigmentation to re-colouring and creative colour palettes, ‘Fudge Colour Expert’ will equip you to deal with many challenging colour scenarios and is a must for any colourist that wants to broaden their experience with Fudge Colour.

• Enhance and get the very best from Headpaint Colour
• Expand your creativity and develop your confidence.
• Explore mixing and formulations to achieve the best results.
• Customise Fudge Colour to suit your own style of work

This session will provide a thorough understanding of the Joico color portfolio. This is a Back to Basics theory class, to introduce the Fudge Headpaint & Paintbox Color System to new and existing users.

Gain confidence in all aspects of the colour in order to inspire creativity and achieve professional results. Covering everything you need and more, including, hair structure, colour wheel, and Catalyst strength, the content will take you on a journey through the exciting world of Fudge Headpaint and Paintbox Colour. Get creative and be inspired, maximise your creativity and signature colour choice. Explore what works for you and how you can obtain the best possible results.

For Hairdressers wishing to learn the essential theory of the Headpaint Colour range in order to achieve professional results.

This session is a fresh approach to retail training. Everything you need and more, the content will take you on a journey through the exciting range of Fudge products and the features and benefits that make them such a fantastic solution for all your clients’ hair.

With the knowledge you take from this course you will be able to confidently consult, diagnose and recommend the right Fudge products for your clients’ needs and best of all, increase your average bill!

Also includes information on:

• PH Scale
• Categories of Products
• Diagnosis & Recommendation

This course will teach you how to achieve the perfect blonde colour for your clients. It takes you through the do’s and dont’s as well as colour correction and after care so that you can create and your client can maintain that Ultimate Blonde!

This course will teach you how to achieve the perfect red hair colour for your clients. It takes you through the do’s and don’ts as well as colour correction and after care so that you can create and your client can maintain that Ultimate Red!

Barber B (Piranha Hair Studio), brings 20 years of experience at the cutting edge of hair design and hair tattooing. Introducing a specialist one day cutting course to help you unlock some of the world secrets, for both male and females hair design and hair tattooing. The course is specifically designed to provide you with an intense one day course in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere.

It will inspire and motivate salon owners, stylists, junior stylists and even clients. The course offers you an insight into using creative sculpting techniques and creative colouring techniques on your clients. On completion this course will enable salon owners to offer or introduce a whole new line of services to your clients.

Do you want to grow your salon business?
Have you ever been frustrated by your staff’s apparent lack of enthusiasm?
Have you ever wondered how you can make them and your salon more profitable?
This course is an ideal opportunity to take action and benefit from invaluable knowledge that will help you make your salon perform better.

• Learn the principles of staff motivation.
• Understand figures and how to use them to your advantage.
• Learn how to measure staff efficiency.
• Learn about SMART targeting.
• Discuss incentive and commission schemes.
• Encourage staff to take responsibility for their column.
• Understand the importance of planning .
• Put together training and marketing plans.

Have you ever felt that the salon is running you instead of you running the salon?
Have you ever wondered if there is a better way of doing things?
Do you understand what management is all about?
Do you wish you could better motivate your staff?

This course is designed to help you:
• Understand the meaning of management.
• Analyse your own management style.
• Learn what motivates you and your staff.
• Gain an understanding of salon costings.
• Learn how to measure your staff’s efficiency.

For salon owners & managers with little or no previous management training.

Intensive 2 times 5-day cut and color program covering all essentials for creating foundational haircuts synchronized with adapted salon friendly color techniques to perfection.

Objectives: Giving attendees a bank of cutting and coloring techniques, upon which you can draw on a daily basis; making certain that you face all client situations with confidence and professional pride. Providing the very best foundation for boosting your skills and knowledge, which is only achieved by immersing yourself in hands-on practical work sessions and detailed tutorials from highly qualified instructors.

Topics: JOICO® J Cut & Color Philosophy and JOICO® J Cut & Color looks 1 through 9; cut, color, styling, finishing and refining.

Suitability: Students with a minimum of 2 to 3 years of hairdressing experience who want to learn more about the principles of cutting and color placement. Recently qualified stylists as a finishing course for perfecting their technical skills. Experienced/senior stylists who want to refresh their knowledge on the principles of cutting and who want to learn more about color placement and foiling.

This course will teach you how to achieve the perfect blonde colour for your clients. It takes you through the do’s and dont’s as well as colour correction and after care so that you can create and your client can maintain that Ultimate Blonde!

This course will teach you how to achieve the perfect red hair colour for your clients. It takes you through the do’s and don’ts as well as colour correction and after care so that you can create and your client can maintain that Ultimate Red!

This session takes an in-depth look at problem solving with the objective of building your skills, knowledge and confidence in order to use Vero K-Pak Colour at an advanced level and for corrective colouring. Your newly acquired skills will enable you to provide a more effective, professional and creative colour service to your clients.

Covering everything from the colour wheel, R.P.C Chart and Pigmentation to Re-colouring and the Vero K-Pak Hair repair System, ‘Vero K-Pak Colour Expert’ will equip you to deal with many challenging colour scenarios and is a must for any colourist that wants to broaden their experience with Vero K-Pak Colour.

Benefits:
• Enhance and get the very best from Vero K-Pak Colour
• Expand your creativity and develop your confidence.
• Explore mixing and formulations to achieve the best results.
• customise Vero K-Pak Colour to suit your own style of work

This session will provide a thorough understanding of the Joico color portfolio. This is a Back to Basics theory class, to introduce the Vero K-Pak Color System to new and existing Vero K-Pak Color users.

Gain confidence in all aspects of the colour in order to inspire creativity and achieve professional results. This course covers everything you need and more including hair structure, colour wheel and R.P.C. The content will take you on a journey through the exciting world of Vero K-Pak Color. You will have the opportunity to ask questions, seek answers and learn as you go. Share ideas when you return to the salon with the rest of your team and identify the best colour selections for your clients.

For Hairdressers wishing to learn the essential theory of the Vero K-Pak Colour range in order to achieve professional results.

This session is a fresh approach to retail training. Everything you need and more, the content will take you on a journey through the exciting range of Joico products and the features and benefits that make them such a fantastic solution for all your clients’ hair. You will learn a brief history of the range including some of the science that gives Joico products their unrivalled ability to cleanse, reconstruct and style hair to the highest possible standard.

With the knowledge you take from this course you will be able to confidently consult, diagnose and recommend the right Joico products for your clients’ needs and best of all, increase your average bill!

Also includes information on:
• PH Scale
• Categories of Products
• Diagnosis & Recommendation
• Hair Repair System
• Treatment Menu.

This seminar will help to develop your understanding of treatments, how and when to use them and how they can help promote retail sales and increase the average spend of each client in the salon.

During the session you will explore the diagnostic & prescriptive approach to promoting treatment services and how to select the most appropriate type of products for clients based on your consultation with them. Using models you can work on perfecting massage techniques and understand how to best apply treatments in order to leave your clients feeling really pampered. Most importantly you will be able to ensure they leave your salon with hair that not only looks fantastic but is actually reconstructed from within using the K-Pak Hair Repair System.

You will return from this seminar with all the essential knowledge required to effectively use Joico treatments professionally for the benefit of your clients’ hair care needs.

This course will show you how to produce the perfect semi-permanent smoothing blow-dry treatment for your client, which will last from 2 to 4 months. The Keratin Revolution treatment repairs and strengthens the hair structure and will smooth and transform each individual hair strand. This treatment leaves hair more manageable and 100% frizz-free and reduces the daily styling time by 50-75%. Increase your salon turnover by introducing this fantastic additional service in your salon.

Note: You will be required to bring your own model for this course.

Do you hold staff appraisals but would like to do them better?
If you don’t do staff appraisals would you like to?

On this course you will learn the importance of job descriptions and staff appraisals. We will discuss the when, what, where, why and how of the process. Learn how to take the fear out of appraisals both for the appraiser and appraisee. Recognise the importance of regular & informal individual staff meetings.

How would you like to have a motivated, productive team who are a joy to manage and produce great results every time? The success or otherwise of any team can be measured in part by how that team is managed. The buck stops with the team leader who is ultimately responsible for results. How does your track record shape up?

If you would like to learn how a team forms, develops and grows, how to shape your team into better performers, producing increased business results, then this course is for you. Learn a proven system of how to run a salon team to avoid arguments, fall outs and negativity. Turn your team on to feeling positive, motivated and successful by implementing a simple system which will bring you the respect of every team member. Learn easy to use management techniques which will help you to increase your productivity and run a successful team, whatever challenges come your way.

Stop spinning plates by understanding how to create a balance between tasks that need to be done, the needs and wants of every individual team member and the demands of the group as a whole. Get things done, handle the negative ones with ease, have more fun as a salon and gain more time for yourself. Learn how to make your channels of communication more open and easier to comprehend so that everyone in your salon understands and accepts that you are working towards the same objectives and goals.

A one day course to ‘Brush up on your Barbering skills.’ with Kenyon Yates.

Learn how to:
• Blend in using clippers and scissors
• Razor cut long and medium length hair
• Produce today’s male hair fashion cuts etc.

Using high quality practice heads (provided,) Kenyon will take you through four lengths of male hair by first demonstrating and then with hands on tuition, teach:

1. Long hair – razor cutting / facial hair styling / perimeter line cutting etc.
2. Medium length hair – advanced razor cutting / taper-scissors-over comb / masculine line and shape etc.
3. Short hair – scissors-over-comb / club cutting / clippers with attachments / blow styling techniques etc.
4. Very short hair – clippers without attachments / blending in practice from zero / basic patterns / flat top etc.

This is a follow up afternoon session to Total Barbering where Kenyon instructs you on the adult male model you have provided. You will be under full supervision and be taught the skills relevant to your models hairstyle.

Choose hairstyles that you feel you will benefit from expert tuition - be they modern or traditional barbering.

For Total Barbering & Total Barbering Live, learners will need to be equipped with the following kit:-
1. Scissors, thinning scissors, combs, freeflow or vent type brushes
2. AMA type razor with spare blades (available at Alan Howard for around £7.00)
3. Hairdryer
4. Clippers plus attachments (1,2,3 & 4)
Note: Barbers usually use 3 Matador combs 1. 4. & 11.

Train the Trainer is a theory based course for people who want to pass on their knowledge and educate others. Using Fudge styling and care products, Headpaint and Paintbox profesional lines, this course will guide you through how to train and present to your team.

Over 4 days you will be given expert advice and tuition that will give you the skills and confidence to educate others on the Fudge product portfolio.

Demonstrations and presentations are included.

This seminar showcases the latest seasonal cut and colour trends will give you the skills, confidence, motivation and know-how to create them for yourself on your own clients.

In the world of fashion, with each new season, comes new styles and it’s no different in commercial hairdressing. Styles from the catwalk filter through the magazines and become the most wanted on the high street and for your clients. Make sure you can give them the styles they will crave and a look that will keep them bang on trend every time they visit your salon.

Working on top quality mannequin blocks, you will work on perfecting one cut and colour trend with expert step by step tuition and guidance. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions, discuss and share ideas and express yourself creatively throughout the session. You will complete this course full of enthusiasm and excitement, raring to put your new found styles into action!

For experienced hairdressers wishing to explore new techniques in cut & colour that are at the forefront of current  trends.

This is the ultimate test for hairdressers wanting to challenge themselves to the fine art of colour correction.
Do you want to be able to tackle any and every colour correction, build confidence with corrective services and strengthen your colour knowledge ?

This seminar explores the exciting world of Colour Correction. Taking the fear out of the decision making process, it will give you the confidence to deal with any corrective colour scenario.

Enhance your salons colouring services, promoting colour to it’s full potential. Never again turn that client away with your new found confidence & knowledge. Designed for Hairdressers with good understanding of hair colour that wish to offer a more specialist, consultative service to their clients