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 NQual has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NQual awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NQual.
01What it is
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These are the units NQual 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 NQual. It does the teaching and the mapping. NQual 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
Conduct Beauty Consultations Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the process of conducting beauty service consultations, emphasising the importance of building rapport and trust with clients. You'll develop skills in effective questioning, listening, and advising clients to determine their needs and recommend suitable services and products.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of conducting a thorough and effective beauty service consultation.
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and advise them on suitable beauty services and products.
Dermaplaning Treatments Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the principles of dermaplaning treatments, including relevant skin anatomy and physiology. You'll gain knowledge of the benefits and risks associated with dermaplaning and develop the practical skills to safely provide these treatments.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of dermaplaning treatments, including skin anatomy, physiology, and the benefits and risks associated with the procedure
- Provide dermaplaning treatments safely and effectively, following industry best practices and adhering to health and safety regulations
Develop and maintain effectiveness at work Real unit · NQual
It teaches you to improve personal performance and teamwork in the workplace. You'll understand salon roles, procedures, and legal requirements, and develop strategies for time management, communication, and identifying strengths and areas for development.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and implement strategies to improve personal performance at work.
- Contribute effectively as a member of a team, supporting colleagues and achieving shared goals.
- Understand the roles, procedures, and targets within a salon or workplace environment.
- Know and be able to articulate their own strengths and areas for development in a professional context.
- Know and understand the organisational and legal requirements relevant to their role and workplace.
Display stock to promote sales in salon Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the principles and techniques of visual merchandising to promote sales in a salon environment. You'll develop skills in stock selection, display planning, and maintaining organised, attractive displays to enhance customer engagement.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective stock display techniques to maximise sales in a salon environment.
- Understand how to select and arrange stock to create visually appealing and informative displays.
- Plan and prepare a stock display to promote sales in a salon.
- Display stock in an organised and attractive manner to encourage customer interest and purchases.
- Maintain and refresh stock displays to ensure they remain appealing and effective.
Ear Piercing Real unit · NQual
This unit provides learners with knowledge of ear piercing principles, relevant anatomy, equipment, and contraindications. You'll learn to prepare for and safely provide ear piercing services, adhering to hygiene and safety protocols.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of providing ear piercing services.
- Understand the procedures for preparing and providing ear piercing services.
- Prepare the work area, equipment, and client for ear piercing services.
- Provide ear piercing services safely and effectively.
Electrical Epilation Real unit · NQual
You'll study the principles of electrical epilation, including skin and hair structure relevant to treatment. The unit covers consultation, treatment planning, and the safe provision of electrical epilation services, recognising contraindications.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of electrical epilation.
- Consult with clients and plan for electrical epilation treatments.
- Provide electrical epilation treatments.
Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety Real unit · NQual
This unit develops learners' understanding of workplace hazards, risks, and health and safety responsibilities. You'll be able to evaluate hazards, conduct risk assessments, and implement control measures to maintain a safe working environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand hazards and risks in the workplace.
- Understand own responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.
- Evaluate hazards and risks in the workplace.
Explore technological developments within the beauty industry Real unit · NQual
You'll gain knowledge of technological advancements in the beauty industry, including their principles, benefits, and limitations. The unit covers a range of technologies used in treatments and encourages critical evaluation of their applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of technological advancements and their applications within the beauty industry.
Eyebrow and Eyelash Lifting Services Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the anatomy and physiology of the eye area and the principles of eyebrow and eyelash lifting services. You'll learn to prepare for and provide lifting treatments safely, including understanding contraindications and aftercare.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning eyebrow and eyelash lifting services, including relevant anatomy and physiology
- Understand the procedures for preparing and providing eyebrow and eyelash lifting services, including contraindications and aftercare advice
- Prepare the work area, equipment, and client for eyelash and eyebrow lifting services, ensuring a safe and hygienic environment
- Provide eyebrow and eyelash lifting services to meet client needs, adhering to industry standards and safety regulations
Eyebrow and Eyelash Services Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the principles and techniques for eyebrow and eyelash services, including tinting and shaping. You'll understand preparation, product use, contraindications, and aftercare to perform treatments safely and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of providing eyelash and eyebrow services
- Understand how to prepare and provide eyebrow and eyelash services
- Prepare for eyelash and eyebrow services
- Tint eyebrows
- Tint eyelashes
- Provide eyebrow shaping services
- Provide cluster eyelashes
- Remove cluster eyelashes
Facial Treatments Real unit · NQual
This unit equips learners with knowledge of facial treatment principles, including skin analysis and contraindications. You'll learn to prepare clients and provide a range of facial treatments using appropriate techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the provision of facial treatments.
- Understand the techniques and procedures involved in providing facial treatments.
- Prepare individuals effectively for receiving facial treatments.
- Provide a range of facial treatments safely and effectively.
Health and Safety Practices in the Workplace Real unit · NQual
This unit covers health and safety practices in the workplace relevant to beauty therapy, including responsibilities under legislation, risk assessment methods, and infection control measures.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety practices in the workplace
Holistic Head Massage Real unit · NQual
You'll study the principles and benefits of Indian head massage, including its history and key anatomical structures. The unit develops consultation, planning, and treatment skills to provide safe and effective holistic head massage therapies.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and benefits of Indian head massage techniques.
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and plan a suitable Indian head massage treatment.
- Provide Indian head massage treatments in a safe, effective, and professional manner.
Hot Stone Therapy Real unit · NQual
You'll explore the history, benefits, and physiological effects of hot stone therapy. The unit covers client consultation, treatment planning, contraindications, and practical skills to safely provide hot stone therapy treatments.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of hot stone therapy.
- Consult with clients to determine their needs and suitability for hot stone therapy.
- Plan hot stone therapy treatments based on client consultation.
- Provide hot stone therapy treatments.
Individual Permanent Lashes Real unit · NQual
You'll study the anatomy of eyelashes and the principles of individual permanent lash services. The unit covers preparation, application, infill, maintenance, and safe removal of semi-permanent lashes, alongside monitoring client safety throughout the service.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of individual permanent lash services.
- Understand how to prepare and provide individual lash services.
- Prepare individuals for permanent lash services.
- Apply semi-permanent lashes.
- Infill and provide maintenance for semi-permanent lashes.
- Remove semi-permanent lashes.
- Monitor all semi-permanent lash services.
Instruction on make-up application Real unit · NQual
You'll gain an understanding of make-up application principles, including skin types, product knowledge, and hygiene. The unit covers consultation, planning, instruction delivery, and evaluation to enable effective skin care and make-up teaching.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of make-up application, including skin types, tones, and product knowledge.
- Understand how to consult with clients to determine their needs and preferences for skin care and make-up instruction.
- Understand how to plan and prepare for effective skin care and make-up instruction sessions.
- Understand how to deliver clear and concise skin care and make-up instructions to clients.
- Understand how to evaluate the success of skin care and make-up instruction, and provide constructive feedback.
- Prepare the necessary resources and materials to deliver skin care and make-up instruction.
- Deliver skin care and make-up instruction in a professional and engaging manner.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of delivered skin care and make-up instruction and identify areas for improvement.
Intimate Waxing Real unit · NQual
You'll gain knowledge of anatomy and physiology relevant to intimate waxing, types of wax, and contraindications. The unit develops consultation, preparation, and treatment skills, emphasising client modesty and adherence to health and safety standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of intimate waxing
- Understand how to prepare for intimate waxing treatments
- Understand how to provide intimate waxing treatments
- Prepare individuals for intimate waxing treatments
- Provide intimate waxing treatments
Make-up Application Real unit · NQual
You'll gain knowledge of make-up application principles, including colour theory, skin types, and hygiene practices. It develops skills to prepare individuals and provide make-up services using appropriate techniques to achieve desired client outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying principles of providing professional make-up services.
- Understand the techniques and procedures required to provide various make-up services.
- Prepare individuals for make-up services, ensuring a comfortable and hygienic experience.
- Provide make-up services to meet client needs and preferences, achieving a desired look.
Manicure Treatments Real unit · NQual
You'll gain knowledge of manicure treatment principles, including nail and skin structure, hygiene, and contraindications. The unit develops skills to prepare individuals and provide a range of manicure services safely and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of manicure treatments.
- Understand how to provide manicure services.
- Prepare individuals for manicure treatments.
- Provide manicure services.
Manual and spray tanning Real unit · NQual
This unit provides knowledge of manual and spray tanning principles, including skin preparation, product types, and contraindications. You'll develop practical skills to prepare clients and deliver safe and effective tanning services.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of providing manual and spray tanning services.
- Understand how to prepare and provide manual and spray tanning services.
- Prepare individuals for tanning services.
- Provide manual tanning services.
- Provide spray tanning services.
Monitor and maintain health and safety practice in the salon Real unit · NQual
It teaches you to carry out risk assessments and monitor health and safety practices within a salon environment. You'll identify hazards, understand the importance of risk assessments, and evaluate health and safety procedures to maintain a safe workplace.
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out a risk assessment in the salon.
- Monitor health and safety practice in the salon.
Nail Art Real unit · NQual
You'll understand the principles of colour theory and design in nail art, including various techniques such as freehand painting and stamping. The unit covers preparation, hygiene, and safety, enabling learners to provide basic nail art services effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and techniques of basic nail art.
- Understand how to prepare and provide nail art services.
- Prepare for nail art services.
- Provide nail art services.
Pedicure Treatments Real unit · NQual
You'll explore the principles of pedicure treatments, focusing on nail and skin anatomy, common foot conditions, and contraindications. They will develop the ability to prepare individuals and deliver a range of pedicure services effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of pedicure treatments, including nail and skin anatomy, common foot conditions, and contraindications
- Understand how to provide a range of pedicure services, including nail shaping, cuticle work, exfoliation, massage, and polish application
- Prepare individuals for pedicure services, including client consultation, skin assessment, and ensuring a safe and hygienic environment
- Provide pedicure services to meet individual client needs, adhering to industry standards and safety regulations
Professional Development and Personal Well-being Real unit · NQual
You'll understand the importance of continuous professional development and managing personal well-being within the beauty industry. The unit includes strategies for stress management, work-life balance, and reflective practice to support ongoing professional growth.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of professional development within the beauty industry
- Understand how to manage personal well-being when working within the beauty industry
- Understand the importance of evaluation
- Understand the importance of self-reflection
- Use reflective practice
Promote and sell products and services to clients Real unit · NQual
It teaches you to promote and sell beauty products and services by identifying client needs and adapting promotional techniques. You'll develop communication skills to handle objections and close sales effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Promote relevant products and services effectively to clients, based on their individual needs and preferences.
Provide Body Massage using Advanced Techniques Real unit · NQual
You'll understand the principles and physiological effects of advanced body massage techniques. The unit covers contraindications, precautions, and adapting techniques to individual client needs, enabling safe and effective massage provision.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying principles of using advanced techniques when providing body massage.
- Understand how to safely and effectively provide body massage using advanced techniques.
- Prepare the work area and client for body massage using advanced techniques.
- Provide body massage using advanced techniques, adapting the treatment to meet individual client needs.
- Provide aftercare advice to clients following body massage using advanced techniques.
Provide Body Massage using Thermal Therapy Techniques Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the principles and application of thermal therapy techniques in body massage. You'll study relevant anatomy and physiology, treatment types, contraindications, and health and safety considerations to provide safe thermal therapy massage.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying principles of providing body massage using thermal therapy techniques.
- Understand how to safely and effectively provide body massage using thermal therapy techniques.
- Prepare the work area and client for body massage using thermal therapy techniques.
- Provide body massage using thermal therapy techniques, adapting the treatment to meet individual client needs.
- Provide aftercare advice to clients following body massage using thermal therapy techniques.
Provide basic business support and services Real unit · NQual
You'll develop knowledge and skills in basic business support, including promoting products and services, maintaining reception areas, attending to customers, and managing stock. The unit emphasises effective communication and teamwork within a business environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of promoting products and services within a business environment
- Assist in the promotion of products and services
- Understand the procedures for maintaining the reception area and attending to customers
- Maintain the reception area and effectively attend to customers
- Understand the processes involved in restocking, stock take, ordering, and deliveries
- Assist with restocking, stock take, ordering, and deliveries as required
- Understand the importance of effective communication within a team
- Liaise effectively with team members to support business operations
Provide holistic head, neck and shoulder massage treatments Real unit · NQual
You'll study the principles and techniques of holistic head, neck, and shoulder massage treatments. The unit covers relevant anatomy, contraindications, and practical skills to safely deliver these massage therapies.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the provision of holistic head, neck and shoulder massage treatments.
- Understand the techniques and procedures involved in providing holistic head, neck and shoulder massage treatments.
- Safely and effectively provide holistic head, neck and shoulder massage treatments to clients.
Salon Reception Duties Real unit · NQual
This unit covers the role and responsibilities of a salon receptionist, including managing the reception area and processing payments securely. You'll develop effective communication and interpersonal skills suitable for a professional salon environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a salon receptionist
- Understand effective communication skills for a salon environment
- Understand effective interpersonal skills for a salon environment
- Manage the reception area
- Communicate effectively during reception duties
- Process payments securely
- Maintain accurate salon records
Threading Services Real unit · NQual
You'll study the anatomy and physiology relevant to threading services and the fundamental principles of the technique. The unit covers preparation, contraindications, threading methods, and the importance of aftercare advice to ensure safe and effective treatments.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of threading services, including relevant anatomy and physiology of the skin and hair
- Understand the procedures for preparing and providing threading services, including contraindications, different threading techniques, and aftercare advice
- Prepare the work area, equipment, and client for threading services, ensuring a safe and hygienic environment
- Provide threading services to meet client needs, adhering to industry standards and safety regulations
Undertake freelance work Real unit · NQual
You'll explore the requirements for undertaking freelance work, including legal and financial obligations, marketing, networking, planning, and contract negotiation. The unit supports learners in managing freelance activities effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand where to access relevant advice and information regarding freelance work, including legal and financial obligations.
- Understand effective marketing and networking strategies for securing freelance work opportunities.
- Understand how to plan and organise freelance work, including time management and resource allocation.
- Understand the financial aspects of freelance work, including budgeting, invoicing, and tax responsibilities.
- Understand how to negotiate contracts and agreements with clients for freelance work.
- Understand how to effectively communicate and collaborate with customers in a freelance capacity, ensuring client satisfaction.
- Manage own time and resources effectively when working in a freelance capacity.
- Communicate effectively with clients and build professional relationships in a freelance setting.
- Adhere to legal and ethical requirements when undertaking freelance work.
Use social media to promote services and products Real unit · NQual
This unit provides knowledge and skills to use social media effectively for promoting beauty services and products. You'll understand how to identify and engage target audiences, create engaging content, and apply promotional techniques across social media platforms.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify your target audience
- Understand how to engage your target audience
- Understand how to promote services
- Understand how to promote products
- Promote services using social media
Waxing Services Real unit · NQual
You'll understand the hair growth cycle, types of wax, and contraindications related to waxing services. The unit develops practical skills for preparing clients and performing waxing treatments safely and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the provision of waxing services.
- Understand the techniques and procedures involved in providing waxing services.
- Prepare the treatment area and the client effectively for waxing services.
- Provide waxing services safely, hygienically and effectively.
Waxing for male clients Real unit · NQual
This unit provides learners with knowledge of waxing principles specific to male clients, including hair and skin structure considerations. You'll develop consultation, planning, and treatment skills tailored to male clients, recognising contraindications.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of waxing for male clients.
- Consult with male clients and plan for waxing treatments.
- Provide waxing treatments for male clients.
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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
Contribute to administering and promoting business information services
- Standard
Instruct clients in the use and application of skin care products and make-up
- Standard
Provide Manicure Treatments
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Provide Manual and Spray Tanning Treatments
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Provide Pedicure Treatments
- Standard
Provide Threading Services
- Standard
Provide a dermaplaning procedure to desquamate and encourage skin renewal
- Standard
Provide a nostril piercing service
- Standard
Provide an Ear Piercing Service
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Provide body massage treatments using advanced techniques
- Standard
Provide body massage using thermal therapy techniques
- Standard
Provide freelance business services
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Provide holistic head, neck and shoulder massage treatments
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Treat skin imperfections using advanced electrical epilation techniques
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04The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NQual 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
Conduct Beauty ConsultationsDermaplaning TreatmentsDevelop and maintain effectiveness at workDisplay stock to promote sales in salonEar PiercingElectrical EpilationEnsure your own actions reduce risks to health and safetyExplore technological developments within the beauty industry
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 · your practice partner Illustration The Coach Make the case from “Display stock to promote sales in salon” 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.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Display stock to promote sales in salon” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Dermaplaning Treatments” 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.
- 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.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
NQual Level 3 Diploma in Combined Beauty Therapy
- Contribute to administering and promoting business information services
- Instruct clients in the use and application of skin care products and make-up
- Provide Manicure Treatments
- Provide Manual and Spray Tanning Treatments
- Provide Pedicure Treatments
- Provide Threading Services
- Provide a dermaplaning procedure to desquamate and encourage skin renewal
- Provide a nostril piercing service
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 Conduct Beauty Consultations, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit covers the process of conducting beauty service consultations, emphasising the importance of building rapport and trust with clients. Learners will develop skills in effective questioning, listening, and advising clients to determine their needs and recommend suitable services and products.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for NQual Level 3 Diploma in Combined Beauty Therapy
35 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NQual.
- Conduct Beauty Consultations
- Dermaplaning Treatments
- Develop and maintain effectiveness at work
- Display stock to promote sales in salon
- Ear Piercing
- Electrical Epilation
and 29 more in the full unit list below.
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