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How you’d get this certificate

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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Focus Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Focus Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Focus Awards Limited.

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01What it is

The Focus Awards Level 3 Certificate in Fashion & Photographic Make-up (RQF) is aimed at those learners wishing to gain the skills and knowledge required to perform fashion and photographic make-up treatments. Learners will develop the understanding needed to perform fashion and photographic make-up treatments for clients via employment or self-employment in the beauty therapy industry.

These are the units Focus Awards Limited 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 Focus Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Focus Awards Limited 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

Client care and communication in beauty-related industries Real unit · Focus Awards Limited
This unit equips learners with professional communication skills for client interactions in beauty-related industries. You'll practise clear verbal and non-verbal communication, manage client expectations empathetically, and respond appropriately to client needs and concerns.

What you'll be able to do

  • Communicate with clients in a clear, professional and respectful manner
  • Demonstrate appropriate behaviour and maintain professional boundaries when interacting with clients
  • Manage client expectations regarding treatments, services and outcomes
  • Address client concerns and complaints effectively and professionally
  • Provide clients with accurate and relevant information about products and services
Fashion and photographic make-up Real unit · Focus Awards Limited
This unit provides learners with the skills to prepare for and apply fashion and photographic make-up. You'll understand health and safety requirements, consult with clients to determine preferences, apply make-up techniques, and evaluate outcomes against client briefs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare the work area and equipment for fashion and photographic make-up applications
  • Prepare the client for fashion and photographic make-up applications, considering their individual needs and preferences
  • Apply fashion make-up techniques to achieve desired looks
  • Apply photographic make-up techniques to enhance features for camera
  • Use a range of make-up products and tools to create different effects
  • Evaluate the finished make-up look in relation to the brief and client requirements
Monitor and maintain health and safety practice in the salon Real unit · Focus Awards Limited
You'll be able to conduct systematic risk assessments within a salon environment, identifying potential hazards such as electrical equipment and chemicals. They will monitor health and safety practices, implement control measures, and address breaches to maintain a safe workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Carry out a thorough risk assessment of the salon environment
  • Identify potential hazards and risks within the salon
  • Implement control measures to minimise identified risks
  • Monitor health and safety practices within the salon to ensure compliance with regulations
  • Identify and address any breaches in health and safety procedures
  • Maintain accurate records of health and safety checks and incidents
Promote and sell products and services to clients Real unit · Focus Awards Limited
You'll learn to promote and sell hair and beauty products ethically, tailoring recommendations to individual client needs. They will understand sales techniques, demonstrate effective communication, and evaluate the success of promotional activities within the industry.

What you'll be able to do

  • Promote hair and beauty products to clients effectively
  • Sell hair and beauty products to clients, adhering to ethical sales practices
  • Promote hair and beauty services to clients, highlighting their benefits
  • Understand methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of product promotions
  • Understand methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of service promotions
  • Analyse data to improve future promotional activities
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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.

  • Design and Create Fashion and Photographic Make-Up

    Standard
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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Focus Awards Limited 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

Client care and communication in beauty-related industriesFashion and photographic make-upMonitor and maintain health and safety practice in the salonPromote and sell products and services to clients

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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Make the case from “Promote and sell products and services to clients” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Pitch it Evaluate

    “Promote and sell products and services to clients” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Monitor and maintain health and safety practice in the salon” 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 Client care and communication in beauty-related industries, one of this qualification's own units.

Client care and communication in beauty-related industries Level 3

Applied to your own work

This unit equips learners with professional communication skills for client interactions in beauty-related industries. Learners will practise clear verbal and non-verbal communication, manage client expectations empathetically, and respond appropriately to client needs and concerns.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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Your Plan Illustration

Built for Focus Awards Level 3 Certificate in Fashion and Photographic Make-Up (RQF)

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Focus Awards Limited.

  1. Client care and communication in beauty-related industries
  2. Fashion and photographic make-up
  3. Monitor and maintain health and safety practice in the salon
  4. Promote and sell products and services to clients
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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