GLAMOUR TECHNICIAN REVISION NOTES 0

Beauty therapy students start the course keen to carry out treatments only to discover that there are other unit/subjects that are needed to complete the qualification.  For instance Health and Safety and Client Care which when we think about it we might agree that for the profession this under pinning knowledge is necessary.

Then the other units/subjects are introduced and that is when the students start to ask why? One particular unit that often catches them off guard is the anatomy and physiology. Some feel empowered and learn way above what the criteria requires whilst others bow out of the course hastily. Saying if they wanted to be a Doctor they would have gone to medical school.

As a beauty therapy lecturer I try to create a balance. On one side I have a student that knows every chamber of the heart and the names of arteries and veins in minute detail while another student struggles to identify the difference between a vein and an artery.

I have written a book to engage learners that are studying for their beauty exam and to lead these students through the criteria without going off track. An example of going off track is that although it is necessary to identify the circulatory system of the body we do not need medical student details that will not be asked in a beauty exam. This book is with the publishers, so until publication I will post examples of these exams questions for you to see and hopefully answer.