Qualifications · Confidence · Real salon experience

Practical beauty training · Aberdeenshire

Your beauty career starts here.

Recognised qualifications, hands-on salon experience and the support to become genuinely confident — not just course-complete.

Starting your career?Begin with the full SVQ Level 2 pathway.
Changing direction?Train practically around real life.
Already qualified?Add skills or build salon confidence.

Choose your route

Training that meets you where you are.

There is no single route into beauty. Start from scratch, add a treatment to your business or bridge the gap between qualifying and feeling work-ready.

01 · Career qualification

SVQ Level 2 Beauty Therapy

An 18-week, salon-based route into professional beauty for beginners and career changers.

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02 · Recognised unit

Individual SVQ units

Gain a recognised unit in a specific treatment area through a supported course lasting a minimum of 6–8 weeks.

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03 · Focused learning

Short courses

Supported programmes lasting 6–8 weeks or longer, covering nails, lashes, brows, waxing, facials and extensions.

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04 · Work-ready confidence

The Learning Salon

A planned 12-week graduate programme for qualified therapists who need supported practice and real client experience.

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What makes this different

Competence first.
Confidence follows.

Fast courses can teach steps. This training is designed to help you understand the treatment, practise properly and feel capable delivering it in the real world.

01

Learn in a real salon environment

Build professional habits around consultation, hygiene, timings, client care and the standards employers expect.

02

Small, supported learning

Get feedback you can act on, time to practise and the chance to ask questions without feeling lost in a crowd.

03

A recognised qualification route

Train through a Qualifications Scotland approved centre offering the SVQ Level 2 Beauty Therapy pathway.

04

Led by industry and education experience

Michelle combines more than a decade in beauty with salon ownership, lecturing, assessment and school delivery.