#OntheFloor

What You’ll Learn

Teaching Approach

You’re already qualified, so we don’t start from scratch. Your trainer works with what you already know and concentrates on the areas you’ve asked to cover. Training is hands-on from the first hour, with theory kept to what’s essential for the skills in front of you.

There’s no fixed syllabus to sit through, and no repeating things you mastered years ago. The time goes where the gaps are.

Mandatory Units

Your training concentrates on one or more of four areas, agreed with you before you start:

• Cutting – building accuracy, speed and confidence with the shapes and techniques you want to improve
• Colouring – practical colour work using salon-professional products
• Styling – finishing and styling skills for the salon floor
• Barbering – adding or strengthening barbering techniques alongside your hairdressing

One day suits someone who wants to focus on one single skill. Ten days give you room to rebuild confidence across several areas. Three and five-day options sit in between.

Course Structure

We agree on your focus and course length before you start, and the rest is straightforward. Training days run Monday to Friday, 10 am to 3:30 pm, at the academy, where you’ll work in a working salon environment alongside students on our other programmes. There are no fixed monthly intakes for this one. You tell us when you want to train and we arrange the dates by request.

Hands-On Experience

Training will be on both mannequin heads and live models. The mannequins are for repetition and drilling into a technique.
Live models are booked through our model bank, and that’s where most people find their confidence. Working on real hair that behaves differently head to head, with someone in the chair who cares how it turns out is where the confidence gets built.

Assessment

This course isn’t assessed and there are no exams and no sign-off. Your trainer stays with you while you work and puts you right in the moment, so a bad habit gets caught before it sets in. You won’t come away with a certificate. You’ll come away quicker and steadier on the floor, which is usually what was missing after the first qualification.

Is This Course Right for You?

Entry Requirements

This Course is Ideal For

• College leavers who hold a hairdressing qualification but don’t yet feel confident on the salon floor
• Working hairdressers who want to brush up on one specific skill
• Hairdressers who want to add barbering to their skill set
• Anyone who learns best through short, intensive, practical training built around their own gaps

What You’ll Achieve

Your Qualification

Our #OntheFloor bootcamp is practical skills training for people who are already qualified. What you gain is measured on the salon floor with improved skill like cleaner cutting, more confident colour work, quicker styling, and the composure that comes from doing it repeatedly under an experienced eye. If you are looking for a regulated qualification the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing is the course to look at.

Skills You’ll Develop

That depends on the focus you choose, which is rather the point. Across all versions of the course you can expect sharper technique in your chosen areas, better speed, and the confidence to take on clients you’d previously have passed to a colleague. The real measure is how you feel walking onto the salon floor the following Monday.

Where to Go Next

For many students this course is the bridge between qualifying and working with real confidence, and nothing further is needed. If you want to keep going, the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hairdressing takes experienced stylists into advanced techniques with a nationally recognised, Ofqual-regulated qualification at the end. And if the barbering side of your training has caught your interest, there’s a barbering version of #OntheFloor, built on the same bespoke basis.

Our Hairdressing Academy

Located in Hayne St, EC1, Barbican, adjacent to Farringdon Elizabeth Line, Barbican exit, our London Hairdressing School is in the heart of the City of London making it easily accessible by public transport. You will learn in a realistic working environment using salon-professional only products.

Course Investment

Tuition Fee

• 1 day: £355 inc. VAT
• 3 days: £660 inc. VAT
• 5 days: £990 inc. VAT
• 10 days: £1,620 inc. VAT

The day rate falls the longer you book. A single day is £355, three days work out at £220 per day, five days at £198, and a full 10-day booking at £162 per day.

What’s Included

Your course fee covers all tuition and ongoing support throughout your training. You’ll work on a mixture of mannequin heads and live models and use salon-only professional products, giving you hands-on experience with the brands and tools you’ll encounter in professional environments.

Additional Costs

Professional equipment kits are available to purchase (you keep these permanently), though if you have your own kit in good condition you’re welcome to bring it. Dress code is smart casual.

Learn from Industry Professionals

Academy Expertise

We have over 60 years of combined industry experience, training hairdressers and barbers. The academy is a VTCT-approved centre, which means training and assessment meet nationally recognised vocational standards. Class sizes are kept small, typically between 1 and 8 students per instructor, so you’ll get individual attention and personalised feedback throughout your course.

A maximum of 10 new learners start with us each month, and you’ll train alongside students on our various programmes in a working salon environment. Your training is delivered by experienced stylists and barbers, matched to the skills you’ve chosen to cover.

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