Beauty Therapy

The growing awareness of the benefits of professional skin and body care means increased employment opportunities for well-trained beauty therapy professionals. A profusion of clinics and day spas provide services in urban areas – and there is a rising trend for health and beauty spas in our tourist centres. As leaders in beauty education, Cut Above can provide you with nationally recognised qualifications for lifelong careers in this exciting field.

NEW FACE FOR AN AUCKLAND ICON

246 Queen Street – now home for Cut Above’s new Academy of Beauty and Spa Therapy, their hairdressing and make-up academies - and their brand new Beauty Clinic, Day Spa, and training hair salon…..

Aucklanders who were around the central city a decade ago will remember the heyday of the 246 Fashion Centre – with its trendy boutiques and the Balcony Coffee Lounge – where everyone met for coffee and gossip, or took a shortcut through from Queen Street to the Cut Above Hairdressers and Lorne Street art galleries.  Lorne Street is still the art centre, but Cut Above is now more than hair.  The company has taken over three floors of the 246 building, which house their hairdressing and make-up schools, its high tech Academy of Beauty and Spa Therapy -  and a state-of -the-art beauty clinic, day spa and professional training salon on the Lorne Street level of 246 (above Sapro Queen Street Store.)

ACADEMY IN BEAUTY AND SPA THERAPY OFFERS UNIQUE WORK EXPERIENCE

The boom in beauty spas means great job prospects for qualified therapists.  Recognised for many years as leaders in education for the hair and make-up industries, Cut Above has applied their well proven training principles the first-class qualifications offered in their new Academy in Beauty and Spa Therapy.  With hard work and application graduates achieve NZQA qualifications in beauty therapy to level five – plus the option to gain international qualifications.  But, most importantly, the beauty students gain work experience in the beauty therapy clinic and day spa – putting technical and customer service skills learned in class into practise on clients from the CBD work force – and gaining confidence.  As a Cut Above student they also participate in the huge network of Cut Above industry contacts, gaining further eperience and valuable contacts by working in the pamper lounge zones for charity and corporate promotions such as NZ Fashion Week, Star-ship, Daffodil Day, Girls Day Out, Big Boys Toys and so on.

Training for the diploma covers a comprehensive range of beautician, body and spa services – skin analysis, manicure, pedicure, lash and brow tinting, waxing, facial techniques and make-up, body treatments, including figure analysis, Swedish massage, herbal wraps, alternative holistic body and spa treatments, health studies nutrition, physics, chemistry, and business practice.  The Cut Above graduates are in great demand, many have jobs to go to immediately after completion and many choose to set up thier own small business.  The academy is now enrolling students for the July intakes.