How you’d get it
How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer VTCT Skills has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and VTCT Skills awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from VTCT Skills.
01What it is
The main aim of the ITEC Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy - General is to enable Candidates to gain the necessary practical and theoretical skills in order to provide Beauty Therapy Services.
These are the units VTCT Skills registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with VTCT Skills. It does the teaching and the mapping. VTCT Skills sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils Real unit · VTCT Skills
It teaches you to carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils safely and effectively. You'll consult with clients, plan treatments, apply massage techniques, and maintain hygiene while recognising potential hazards and legal requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and expectations for aromatherapy massage treatments
- Plan aromatherapy massage treatments based on client consultation and assessment
- Prepare the treatment area and equipment for aromatherapy massage treatments
- Massage the body using pre-blended aromatherapy oils, applying appropriate techniques
- Understand organisational requirements for carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand legal requirements for carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to work safely when carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to work effectively when carrying out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to consult with clients to determine their needs for aromatherapy massage
- Prepare to carry out massages using pre-blended aromatherapy oils, ensuring client comfort and safety
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to massage treatments, including the musculoskeletal and circulatory systems
- Understand contra-indications that affect or restrict massages using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand contra-actions that affect or restrict massages using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to use pre-blended aromatherapy oils safely and effectively
- Understand the principles behind massage techniques using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Understand how to provide appropriate aftercare advice to clients following aromatherapy massage
Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll develop the ability to contribute to the financial effectiveness of a business by monitoring and using resources efficiently. The unit covers meeting productivity targets, understanding salon procedures and legal requirements, and applying effective communication and time management.
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the effective use and monitoring of resources within the business
- Meet agreed productivity and development targets
- Understand salon procedures and relevant legal requirements
- Understand the use, monitoring and recording of resources within the business
- Apply effective methods of communication in the workplace
- Apply effective work and time management techniques
- Understand the importance of productivity and development targets for business success
Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll contribute to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of promotional activities. The unit covers understanding venue and legal requirements, preparing promotional materials, applying sales techniques, and assessing the effectiveness of promotional events.
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the planning and preparation of promotional activities
- Implement promotional activities effectively
- Participate in the evaluation of promotional activities
- Understand the venue and legal requirements for promotional activities
- Understand how to plan and prepare promotional events
- Understand how to sell products and services during promotional activities
- Apply effective communication techniques during promotional activities
- Understand evaluation methods and techniques for promotional activities
Design and create fashion and photographic make-up Real unit · VTCT Skills
This unit develops learners' ability to design, produce, and evaluate fashion and photographic make-up looks. You'll analyse trends, plan make-up designs, apply appropriate techniques, and assess outcomes against design objectives while considering health and safety.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and design a range of make-up looks for fashion and photographic purposes, considering current trends and client requirements
- Produce a range of make-up looks for fashion and photographic purposes, using appropriate techniques and products
- Evaluate the results of the make-up application against the design plan objectives, identifying areas for improvement
- Understand how to communicate effectively with clients and other professionals in the fashion and photographic make-up industry
- Understand health and safety regulations and best practices related to fashion and photographic make-up, including hygiene and sanitation
- Understand the importance of planning and problem-solving when designing and creating fashion and photographic make-up looks
- Understand how to design and develop make-up looks that are appropriate for different skin tones, face shapes, and lighting conditions
- Understand how to evaluate fashion and photographic make-up looks in terms of their suitability for the intended purpose, their technical execution, and their overall aesthetic appeal
Monitor procedures to safely control work operations Real unit · VTCT Skills
It teaches you to monitor workplace procedures to ensure compliance with health and safety instructions. You'll identify hazards, recommend improvements, and understand the importance of reporting breaches to maintain safe work operations.
What you'll be able to do
- Check that health and safety instructions are followed in the workplace.
- Recommend changes to health and safety workplace instructions to improve safety.
- Make sure that hazards and risks are controlled safely and effectively in work operations.
- Monitor procedures to safely control work operations.
Plan and provide airbrush make-up Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll gain the skills to plan and provide airbrush make-up applications safely. The unit covers client consultation, preparation, application techniques, and adherence to organisational, legal, and hygiene standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing airbrush make-up
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for airbrush make-up applications
- Apply airbrush make-up effectively and safely, achieving desired results
- Understand organisational and legal requirements related to providing airbrush make-up services, including hygiene standards and data protection
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing airbrush make-up services, adhering to health and safety guidelines
- Understand how to consult, plan and prepare for airbrush make-up applications, considering client preferences and skin type
- Understand airbrush make-up equipment, products and techniques, including troubleshooting and maintenance
- Understand the application of airbrush make-up for various looks and occasions, including colour theory and blending techniques
- Understand the aftercare advice to provide for airbrush make-up services, ensuring longevity and client satisfaction
Provide Body Electrical Treatments Real unit · VTCT Skills
It teaches you to safely provide body electrical treatments. You'll develop skills in client consultation, treatment planning, safe application of electrical treatments, and adherence to organisational and legal health and safety requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain effective and safe methods of working when providing body electrical treatments
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for body electrical treatments
- Carry out body electrical treatments
- Understand organisational and legal requirements relevant to providing body electrical treatments
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing body electrical treatments
- Understand how to perform client consultation, planning and preparation for body electrical treatments
- Understand the anatomy and physiology relevant to body electrical treatments
- Understand contra-indications that affect or restrict body electrical treatments
- Understand equipment, materials, products and treatment specific knowledge related to body electrical treatments
- Provide aftercare advice to clients following body electrical treatments
Provide Indian head Massage Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll gain the skills and knowledge to provide safe and effective Indian head massage treatments. The unit includes client consultation, treatment planning, massage techniques, and adherence to organisational and legal health and safety requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing Indian head Massage, adhering to health and safety regulations.
- Consult, plan and prepare for treatments with clients, taking into account their individual needs and preferences.
- Perform Indian head massage techniques effectively and safely, adapting pressure and techniques as required.
- Understand organisational and legal requirements for providing Indian head massage, including data protection and insurance.
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing Indian Head Massage, minimising risks to self and clients.
- Understand how to consult with clients to determine their needs and contraindications.
- Understand how to prepare for providing Indian head massages, including setting up the treatment area and selecting appropriate products.
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to Indian head massages, including muscles, bones and the nervous system.
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict body massage treatments, and how to respond appropriately.
- Understand different Indian head massage mediums and their properties.
- Understand the principles of Indian head massage, including its history and benefits.
- Understand how to provide aftercare advice to clients, including home care and lifestyle recommendations.
Provide UV tanning services Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll gain the skills and knowledge to safely provide UV tanning services. The unit covers client consultation, treatment planning and monitoring, safe working practices, and compliance with organisational and legal requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing UV tanning treatments
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for UV tanning treatments
- 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 for UV tanning services
- 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 to clients following UV tanning treatments
Provide facial electrical treatments Real unit · VTCT Skills
This unit covers the provision of facial electrical treatments, focusing on safe and effective working methods. You'll develop skills in client consultation, treatment planning, and application, while understanding organisational and legal requirements related to these treatments.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing facial electrical treatments
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for facial electrical treatments
- Carry out facial electrical treatments
- 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 for facial electrical treatments
- 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 to clients following facial electrical treatments
Provide female intimate waxing services Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll develop the skills to safely provide female intimate waxing services, including client consultation, treatment planning, and hair removal techniques. The unit also covers the use of personal protective equipment and maintaining a hygienic environment in line with legal requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing waxing services
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for female intimate waxing services
- Remove unwanted hair effectively and hygienically during female intimate waxing services
- Understand organisational and legal requirements related to providing female intimate waxing services
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing waxing services, adhering to health and safety guidelines
- Understand how to consult, plan and prepare for female intimate waxing services, considering client comfort and preferences
- Understand the anatomy and physiology that relates to intimate waxing, including skin sensitivity and potential complications
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions to intimate waxing services, and how to manage them appropriately
- Understand equipment and materials for intimate waxing, including different types of wax and application techniques
- Understand intimate waxing services and aftercare advice to provide to clients to ensure optimal results and minimise discomfort
Provide male intimate waxing services Real unit · VTCT Skills
It teaches you to provide safe and effective male intimate waxing services. You'll develop consultation, treatment planning, and waxing techniques while complying with organisational and legal standards for hygiene and client care.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when waxing
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for waxing treatments
- Remove unwanted hair using waxing techniques
- Understand organisational and legal requirements relevant to providing waxing services
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing waxing services
- Understand how to consult with clients to plan and prepare for male intimate waxing services
- Understand the anatomy and physiology that relates to intimate waxing
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions to intimate waxing services
- Understand the equipment and materials required for intimate waxing
- Understand intimate waxing services and aftercare advice
Provide self-tanning services Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll gain knowledge and skills to provide self-tanning services safely and effectively. The unit includes client consultation, skin assessment, treatment planning, product application, and adherence to organisational and legal health and safety requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing self-tanning treatments
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and expectations for self-tanning treatments
- Plan self-tanning treatments based on client consultation and skin assessment
- Prepare the treatment area and equipment for self-tanning treatments
- Apply self-tan products evenly and effectively
- Understand organisational requirements related to providing self-tanning services
- Understand legal requirements related to providing self-tanning services
- Understand how to work safely when providing self-tanning services
- Understand how to work effectively when providing self-tanning services
- Understand how to perform client consultation for self-tanning treatments
- Understand how to plan self-tanning treatments based on client needs
- Understand how to prepare clients for self-tanning treatments
- Understand contra-indications that affect or restrict self-tanning services
- Understand contra-actions that affect or restrict self-tanning services
- Understand different types of self-tanning products
- Understand the use of self-tanning equipment
- Understand different types of self-tanning treatments
- Understand the effect of self-tanning treatments on the skin
- Understand how to provide appropriate aftercare advice to clients
Provide single eyelash extension treatments Real unit · VTCT Skills
This unit equips learners to safely provide single eyelash extension treatments. You'll learn to consult with clients, plan and prepare treatments, attach, maintain, and remove lash systems, while following health and safety and hygiene regulations.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing single eyelash extension treatments
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for eyelash extension treatments
- Attach single lash systems
- 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
Provide specialist skin camouflage services Real unit · VTCT Skills
This unit focuses on providing specialist skin camouflage services safely and effectively. You'll consult with clients, plan and perform camouflage applications, maintain hygiene, and advise clients on aftercare, while recognising potential hazards and organisational requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain effective and safe methods of working when providing specialist skin camouflage
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and expectations for specialist cosmetic skin camouflage
- Plan the specialist cosmetic skin camouflage service based on the client consultation
- Prepare the work area and equipment for specialist cosmetic skin camouflage
- Carry out specialist cosmetic skin camouflage techniques to meet the client's needs
- Instruct the client on appropriate cosmetic skin camouflage techniques for their specific needs
- Advise the client on the application and maintenance of cosmetic skin camouflage
- Evaluate the success of camouflage instruction by observing the client's ability to apply the techniques
- Provide aftercare advice to clients following cosmetic skin camouflage services
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing skin camouflage services, including hygiene and infection control
- Understand the importance of client consultation in determining the suitability and desired outcomes of specialist skin camouflage services
- Understand the process of treatment planning and preparation for specialist skin camouflage services, including product selection and colour matching
- Understand the anatomy and physiology relevant to skin camouflage, including skin structure, conditions, and wound healing
- Understand the importance of psychology in skin camouflage, including the impact of skin conditions on self-esteem and body image
- Understand the contra-indications and contra-actions of skin camouflage, and how to identify and manage them
- Understand the use of skin camouflage products, including their properties, application techniques, and suitability for different skin types and conditions
- Understand the skills used to instruct clients in skin camouflage techniques, including communication, demonstration, and feedback
- Understand how to provide appropriate aftercare advice for clients following skin camouflage services, including product recommendations and maintenance tips
- Understand how to evaluate the success of skin camouflage instruction, including assessing client satisfaction and long-term outcomes
Provide stone therapy treatments Real unit · VTCT Skills
You'll gain knowledge and skills to provide stone therapy treatments safely and effectively. The unit includes client consultation, treatment planning, performance of stone therapy, and adherence to organisational and legal health and safety standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain safe and effective methods of working when providing stone therapy treatments
- Consult with clients to plan and prepare for stone therapy treatments
- Perform stone therapy treatments effectively
- Understand organisational and legal requirements related to providing stone therapy treatments
- Understand how to work safely and effectively when providing stone therapy treatments, adhering to health and safety guidelines
- Understand how to consult with clients to determine their needs and preferences for stone therapy treatments
- Understand how to prepare the treatment area and equipment for providing stone therapy treatments
- Understand anatomy and physiology related to stone therapy treatments, including the musculoskeletal system and circulatory system
- Understand contra-indications and contra-actions that affect or restrict stone therapy treatments, and how to respond appropriately
- Understand how to use stone therapy equipment safely and effectively, including heating and cooling methods
- Understand the principles behind stone therapy techniques and how to use them to achieve desired therapeutic effects
- Understand how to provide appropriate aftercare advice to clients following stone therapy treatments
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03The standards
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Design and Create Fashion and Photographic Make-Up
- Standard
Provide specialist skin camouflage services
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04The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by VTCT Skills rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oilsContribute to the financial effectiveness of the businessContribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activitiesDesign and create fashion and photographic make-upMonitor procedures to safely control work operationsPlan and provide airbrush make-upProvide Body Electrical TreatmentsProvide Indian head Massage
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration The Navigator Your plan for “Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitor procedures to safely control work operations” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils safely and effectively. Learners will consult with clients, plan treatments, apply massage techniques, and maintain hygiene while recognising potential hazards and legal requirements.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for VTCT Skills (ITEC) Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy Make-up
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by VTCT Skills.
- Carry out massage using pre-blended aromatherapy oils
- Contribute to the financial effectiveness of the business
- Contribute to the planning and implementation of promotional activities
- Design and create fashion and photographic make-up
- Monitor procedures to safely control work operations
- Plan and provide airbrush make-up
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
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