Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy

Our beauty therapy course teaches you how to become a beauty therapist. The beauty course includes facials, manicures, waxing, eye treatments, makeup, body massage, spray tanning, advanced beauty treatments, and even more.

After that, you can work in the beauty therapy industry. NZQA has approved the New Zealand Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy program so you can rest assured your qualifications are recognized.

What You’ll Learn in the Beauty Therapy Course

Overall, you will learn these subjects in the New Zealand Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy course:

Professional Standards

• Client care and communication
• Hygiene and sterilisation
• Professionalism
• Items and events relating to accidents
• Care of electrical equipment

Consultation

• Consultation before the treatment
• Making a treatment plan
• After the treatment

Manicure and Pedicure

• Contraindications to manicure
• Manicure products and tools
• Both manicures and pedicures

Skin Care and Facials

• Facial contraindications
• Contraindications to both basic and advanced electricals
• Facial cosmetic products
• Manual facial treatments
• Both basic and advanced facial electrical treatments
• Advanced beauty treatments

Eye Treatments

• Contraindications to eye treatments
• Eye products
• Enhancing both eyebrows and eyelashes

Makeup

• Contraindications to makeup
• Makeup and cosmetics
• Make-up services

Waxing

• Contraindications to waxing
• Waxing products
• Waxing treatments

Swedish Massage and Body Electricals

• Contraindications to massage
• Massage products
• Swedish body massages
• Body electrical treatments

Figure Diagnosis and Exercise

• Contraindications to both figure diagnosis and exercise
• Perform a figure diagnosis
• Basic exercise routines

Body Wraps and Exfoliation Treatments

• Contraindications to both body wraps and exfoliations
• Body wrap products
• Both body wraps and exfoliation treatments

Spray Tanning

• Contraindications to spray tanning
• Spray tanning products
• Spray tanning treatments

Anatomy and Physiology

• Human anatomy and physiology for beauty therapy
• Skin anatomy and physiology
• Nail anatomy and physiology
• Hair anatomy and physiology

Electricity and Basic Physics

• Electricity and basic physics

Nutrition

• Basic nutritional advice for beauty
• Nutritional plans for clients

Reception and Client Sales

• Reception services and skills
• Selling to clients and transaction services

Business Awareness

• Helping run a small beauty business
• Basic management of a small beauty business

Electrology

• Short-wave diathermy electrology treatments
• Blend galvanic el