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.
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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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Hair Anatomy and Physiology Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the hair
- Understand the structure of the skin
- Understand hair growth
- Understand different hair types
- Understand the parts of a hair follicle
- Understand different hair loss conditions
Advanced colouring techniques Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of colouring hair
- Understand how to prepare for advanced colouring techniques
- Understand how to carry out advanced colouring techniques
- Prepare individuals for a colouring service
- Provide a colouring service
Advanced cutting techniques Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of advanced cutting techniques
- Understand how to prepare for advanced cutting techniques
- Understand how to carry out advanced cutting techniques
- Prepare individuals for advanced hair cutting services
- Complete advanced hair cutting services
Advanced hair styling and finishing Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for advanced hair styling and finishing services
- Understand how to carry out advanced hair styling and finishing services
- Provide advanced hair styling techniques
- Provide advanced hair finishing techniques
Braid, twist and thread wrap hair Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of providing braid, twist, and thread wrap hair services.
- Understand different braiding, twisting, and thread wrapping techniques.
- Understand how to prepare the hair for braiding, twisting, and thread wrapping.
- Understand how to select and use appropriate hair products and tools for these techniques.
- Prepare the client's hair for the chosen technique.
- Carry out a range of braiding, twisting, and thread wrapping techniques, ensuring they are neat, secure, and aesthetically pleasing.
Bridal Hairstyling Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of providing bridal hair services, including consultation and planning.
- Understand different bridal hair styles and techniques.
- Understand how to prepare the hair for styling, including washing, conditioning, and blow-drying.
- Understand how to select and use appropriate hair products and tools for bridal hairstyling.
- Consult with clients to determine their desired bridal hairstyle.
- Prepare the client's hair and create a variety of bridal hairstyles, ensuring they are secure and long-lasting.
Hair colour correction Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning hair colour correction techniques.
- Understand the factors that contribute to successful hair colour correction.
- Understand how to prepare the client and the work area for a colour correction service.
- Assess the client's hair and identify the existing colour and any damage.
- Select appropriate colour correction products and techniques.
- Safely and effectively carry out a colour correction service, monitoring the hair's condition throughout.
Hairdressing consultation support for colleagues Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to effectively advise clients on hairdressing services and products.
- Understand how to support colleagues in providing hairdressing services.
- Communicate effectively with clients to understand their needs and preferences.
- Provide accurate and helpful advice to clients regarding hairdressing services and products.
- Support colleagues by sharing knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure the delivery of high-quality hairdressing services.
Health and safety practices in the workplace Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety practices relevant to the workplace, including risk assessments, COSHH regulations, and emergency procedures
- Understand the importance of maintaining a positive work environment, including effective communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution
- Follow established Health & Safety procedures in the workplace, contributing to a safe and healthy working environment for themselves and others
Professional Development and Personal Well-being Real unit · NQual
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
Provide basic business support and services Real unit · NQual
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 hair extension services Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for the application of hair extensions
- Understand how to apply hair extensions safely and effectively
- Understand the correct techniques for removing hair extensions
- Prepare the hair and scalp for the application of hair extensions
- Apply hair extensions using appropriate methods and techniques
- Remove hair extensions without causing damage to the natural hair
Providing hair smoothing services Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of providing hair smoothing services
- Understand how to provide a hair smoothing service
- Prepare the work area, equipment and client for a hair smoothing service
- Provide a hair smoothing service to meet client requirements
Set, style and dress hair Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of setting hair
- Understand the fundamental principles of styling hair
- Understand the fundamental principles of dressing hair
- Understand the techniques involved in setting, styling and dressing hair
- Prepare individuals for hair setting services
- Prepare individuals for hair styling services
- Prepare individuals for hair dressing services
- Set hair using appropriate techniques
- Style hair using appropriate techniques
- Dress hair using appropriate techniques
Style diverse hair types Real unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand diverse hair types
- Understand how to style diverse hair types
- Style diverse hair types
Undertake freelance work Real unit · NQual
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
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
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
Braid, twist and thread wrap hair
- Standard
Contribute to administering and promoting business information services
- Standard
Provide freelance business services
- Standard
Provide hair smoothing treatments
- Standard
Set, style and dress hair
- Standard
Support Client Service Improvements
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
Advanced Hair Anatomy and PhysiologyAdvanced colouring techniquesAdvanced cutting techniquesAdvanced hair styling and finishingBraid, twist and thread wrap hairBridal HairstylingHair colour correctionHairdressing consultation support for colleagues
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.
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“Advanced Hair Anatomy and Physiology” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.
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.
- Braid, twist and thread wrap hair
- Contribute to administering and promoting business information services
- Provide freelance business services
- Provide hair smoothing treatments
- Set, style and dress hair
- Support Client Service Improvements
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 Advanced Hair Anatomy and Physiology, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit provides learners with detailed knowledge of advanced hair and skin anatomy and physiology. Learners will study hair structure, growth cycles, follicle components, skin functions, and various hair loss conditions to support advanced hair care practices.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NQual Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Hairdressing
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NQual.
- Advanced Hair Anatomy and Physiology
- Advanced colouring techniques
- Advanced cutting techniques
- Advanced hair styling and finishing
- Braid, twist and thread wrap hair
- Bridal Hairstyling
and 11 more in the full unit list below.
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