Six-Month Self-Employed Hair Stylist Programme

Learn the Skills. Build Your Business. Start Your Career.

Turn your interest in hairdressing into the foundations of a self-employed career with this comprehensive six-month programme.

Designed for beginners, the programme combines fundamental and advanced hairdressing skills with practical business coaching and personalised mentoring. You will learn ladies’ cutting, colouring, styling, hair-up, hair extensions and barbering while developing the confidence and business knowledge needed to begin working independently.

Training is personalised to your ability, learning pace and career goals. No previous professional hairdressing experience is required.

What You Will Learn

Fundamental Cutting

Professional consultations and hair analysis
Health, safety and hygiene
Sectioning and scissor control
One-length cutting
Graduation and layering
Cutting angles, elevation and balance
Cross-checking and refining
Blow-drying and finishing

Fundamental Colouring

Hair structure and colour theory
Understanding levels, tones and underlying pigment
Hair and scalp analysis
Essential colour tests and safety procedures
Product selection and mixing
Regrowth and full-head colour applications
Foiling and highlighting
Colour removal, aftercare and maintenance

Advanced Cutting

Advanced sectioning patterns
Combining cutting techniques
Over-direction and disconnection
Precision and creative cutting
Removing and distributing weight
Texturising and personalising
Adapting haircuts to different face and head shapes
Correcting and refining finished results

Advanced Colouring

Advanced colour theory and formulation
Lightening and pre-lightening
Toners and neutralisation
Advanced foil placement
Balayage and freehand techniques
Root melts and colour blending
Multi-tonal and dimensional colour
Colour-correction principles
Pre-pigmentation and restoring depth

Foundation Styling

Professional blow-drying
Smooth, straight and voluminous finishes
Creating curls, waves and texture
Preparing the hair for styling
Hair-up foundations
Pinning, braiding, twisting and securing
Creating buns, ponytails and occasion styles
Finishing techniques and product selection

Hair Extensions

Introduction to different extension methods
Consultation and suitability
Colour matching
Sectioning and placement
Safe application principles
Blending extensions with natural hair
Styling and finishing
Maintenance, removal and aftercare

Foundation Barbering

Clipper control and guard selection
Scissor-over-comb
Clipper-over-comb
Graduation and blending
Tapering and introductory fading
Creating clean outlines and edges
Understanding head shape and growth patterns
Styling and finishing gents’ hair

Mentoring When You Start Your Business

Support continues as you take your first steps into self-employment.

Your mentoring will help you:

Plan your launch
Introduce your services confidently
Review your pricing and policies
Work through early business challenges
Build confidence with consultations and clients
Review your progress and set future goals
Identify areas where further practice is needed

Mentoring provides guidance and support but does not guarantee income, employment or a particular business outcome.

Who Is This Programme For?

This programme is ideal for:

Complete beginners who want to enter the hair industry
Aspiring mobile or home-based hairstylists
People looking for a practical career change
Beauty professionals wanting to expand their services
Learners who want both technical and business support
Anyone who benefits from personalised training and mentoring

What You Will Work Towards

By the end of the programme, you will have:

Practised a broad range of hairdressing and barbering techniques
Developed fundamental and advanced cutting and colouring knowledge
Built experience in styling, hair-up and hair extensions
Started creating a professional portfolio
Developed a personalised business plan
Created a service menu, pricing structure and key policies
Received guidance for launching your self-employed business
Identified your next steps for further training and development

Payment plan available with PayPal

Training Times

Training is 1 day a week but it is not just about the time you spend with Jacquie , you will have time to practice in between each session from the comfort of your own home.

Training times are 9.30-1.30 , 10-2- 2.30-6.30 Monday to Friday with some weekends available .

How you will learn

At first we will learn on a 100% human hair training head. Everything will be demonstrated to you first. They you just repeat what you have seen. Once you have understanding we will then move into case studies, models . Friends, family and neighbours. You can take before and after photos for future advertising of your new skill.

To Book Text/ WhatApp Jacquie 07958264946.

When booking everything will be put in writing to you