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  3. The centre assesses, and Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology.

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01What it is

The CIBTAC Level 3 Certificate in Fashion and Photographic Make-up offers learners the knowledge and skills to perform recognised make-up techniques within the fashion and photographic industries. It covers health and safety, client care, and the application of fashion and photographic make-up.

These are the units Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology 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 Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology. It does the teaching and the mapping. Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology 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 · Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology
It teaches you to understand and apply client care and communication principles within beauty-related industries. You'll develop professional communication skills, manage client expectations, and create a welcoming environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the requirements for providing excellent client care in beauty-related industries.
  • Know and understand the requirements for effective communication in beauty-related industries.
  • Communicate and behave in a professional manner when dealing with clients.
  • Manage client expectations effectively throughout the service.
Fashion and photographic make-up Real unit · Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology
You'll gain knowledge and skills to provide fashion and photographic make-up services, including relevant anatomy and physiology. The unit covers design planning, client consultation, and application techniques for various make-up styles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the requirements for providing fashion and photographic make-up services.
  • Know and understand the anatomy and physiology relating to fashion and photographic make-up application.
  • Prepare a design plan for fashion and photographic make-up, considering the client's requirements and the desired outcome.
  • Create a design plan for fashion and photographic make-up, incorporating relevant techniques and products.
  • Prepare the client and the work area for fashion and photographic make-up application.
  • Apply fashion and photographic make-up according to the agreed design plan, using appropriate techniques and products.
Monitor and maintain health and safety in the salon Real unit · Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology
You'll understand health and safety principles, legislation, and procedures specific to salon environments. The unit includes hazard identification, risk assessment, and the maintenance of health and safety standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the principles of health and safety practice in a salon environment
  • Know and understand the relevant health and safety legislation and regulations
  • Know and understand the procedures for reporting accidents and incidents
  • Know and understand the requirements for monitoring health and safety in the salon
  • Know and understand the requirements for maintaining health and safety in the salon
  • Carry out a risk assessment in the salon
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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 Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology 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 in the salon

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 Analyst The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration
The Analyst In “Monitor and maintain health and safety in the salon” you have moved the target from 48 hours to 24. Where does that time come from?
You The team prioritises better, I suppose.
The Analyst Or it comes out of the follow-ups, and reopened cases climb in about six weeks. Let us map it and find out which, before it is a surprise.
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.
  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Monitor and maintain health and safety 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 enables learners to understand and apply client care and communication principles within beauty-related industries. Learners will develop professional communication skills, manage client expectations, and create a welcoming environment.

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 CIBTAC Level 3 Certificate in Fashion and Photographic Make-up

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology.

  1. Client care and communication in beauty related industries
  2. Fashion and photographic make-up
  3. Monitor and maintain health and safety in the salon
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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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.