Hair Design Program

Shaping your passion for hairstyling into a career opens up a world of possibilities. As a growing industry, your services will always be in demand. You’ll be able to do what you love every day, while you enjoy the creativity, flexibility, and expression that comes with working in this industry. And—maybe more importantly—love the feeling of helping your clients look amazing and feel their best.

Our Hair Design Program is a unique full-time diploma course, consisting of 1500 hours over a 10-month time frame. The HDC operates a modern full-service salon on-site where students practice their developing skills on real clients.

With these core skills in place, students learn critical business-building skills for the development of a long and successful career in hairstyling, from client retention and how to deliver product recommendations, to career planning, to business and financial management. It should be no surprise that our hair design students achieve a 95% job placement rate within 30 days of graduation!

Hair Design Topics Covered

• Fundamentals of cutting
• Fundamentals of colouring – including foiling
• Advanced coloring – including balayage
• Advanced cutting
• Men’s hair cutting – intro to modern barber, fades, pompadour, flat top, line ups
• Specialty product knowledge classes with Redken, Moroccanoil and Aveda
• Chemical services – perming, relaxing, curl reformation
• Haircare best practices and treatments
• Styling techniques
• Long hair design and up-dos
• Hair extension placement
• Textured hair design and styling
• Sanitation and infection control
• General sciences