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Beauty & Hairdressing

Enter the rewarding world of hairdressing and beauty with UCOL and gain experience working with real clients in our campus salons.

The New Zealand hair and beauty industry is estimated to record strong revenue growth in the coming years as we are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. This would create huge demand for skilled hairdressers and beauty therapists.

UCOL’s beauty courses, nail tech courses and hairdressing courses are carefully developed to cover all the major aspects of the beauty and hair business, including science and nutrition, skincare and beauty therapy, trends and styles, equipment and products, and customer relations. These courses, combined with the training in our in-house hair and beauty salons working with real clients, will develop your skills and make you industry-ready.

Check out our beauty and hair programmes below and talk to our wonderful staff and lecturers.

  • A photograph of UCOL beauty students performing services on clients in the salon
    Beauty
    A photograph of UCOL beauty students performing services on clients in the salon
    Beauty
    • Diplomas
      • New Zealand Diploma in Beauty Therapy
        Level 5
        Duration: 1 year full-time (40 weeks)
        Part-time option available.
        (See Course Hours & Duration for details)
        Start:  Feb 2023
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Horowhenua in Levin, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
    • Certificates
      • New Zealand Certificate in Beauty Therapy
        Level 4
        Duration: 1 year full-time (40 weeks)
        Part-time option available.
        (See Course Hours & Duration for details)
        Start:  Jul 2022 & Feb 2023
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton, UCOL Horowhenu in Levin
         
      • New Zealand Certificate in Nail Technology
        Level 4
        Duration: 1 year full-time (40 weeks)
        Part-time option available.
        (See Course Hours & Duration for details)
        Start:  Feb 2023
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North
         
    • In School (programmes for current secondary school students)
  • study Hairdressing at UCOL
    Hairdressing
    study Hairdressing at UCOL
    Hairdressing
    • Certificates
    • In School (programmes for current secondary school students)
      • Academy Barbering
        Level 2
        Duration: 1 day per week

        Manawatu - Thursdays
        Masterton - Mondays
        Start:  February
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
      • Academy Hair, Beauty & Retail
        Level 2
        Duration: 1 day per week
        Start:  February
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton, UCOL Horowhenua in Levin
         
      • New Zealand Certificate in Salon Skills (Introductory) (Level 2)
        Level 2
        Duration: 2 days per week for 9 months
        Start:  Feb 2023
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
      • STAR Hairdressing
        Level 2
        Duration: One day per week over five weeks (Friday).
        Start:  October
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
  • A photograph of UCOL hairdressing student Mandy Bertram.

    Mandy Bertram

    Hairdressing Student

    “I’ve always been interested in arts and creativity, and hairdressing allows me to be creative."

    Meet Mandy
  • A photograph of Tayla Peters

    Tayla Peters Fear

    Beauty Graduate

    Tayla Peters Fear has, in part, her sister to thank for her new career in Beauty Therapy.

    Meet Tayla
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