FUTURE STYLIST | PART TIME
Looking to dive into the world of hairstyling/ barbering without committing full-time? Our part-time program offers flexible scheduling designed to fit around your busy life. Whether you're looking to launch a career in beauty or simply expand your skills, you'll learn from experienced instructors in a hands-on environment. Operating 3 days a week is a great fit for career switchers and those currently working in the hair and beauty industry with obligations outside of school.
16.5 Months | 71 Weeks |1500 Hours
Sunday to Tuesday
9:00 – 4:30pm
Enrollment Dates
August 10th - Closing Soon, Contact Today!
$17,000
$2,850 Student Kit
*Financing and Payment Plans Available
What You Will Learn
Throughout your 1500-hour training with Glassbox you'll dive deep into the following:
Hair Design
• Hair styling techniques
• Scalp and hair care
• Hair cutting methods
• Hygiene and grooming practices
• Scalp treatments
• Jerri curls and hair weaving
• Thermal waving and wig procedures
• Hair straightening and permanent waving
• Chemical hair relaxing and color services (tinting and bleaching)
• Anatomy and physiology
• Spiral waving
Science
• Bacteriology and hair disorders
• Chemistry and electricity
• Nails and related disorder
• Sterilization and sanitation
Barbering Skills & Short Hair
• Barbering techniques
• Advanced hair cutting methods
• Hygiene and grooming
Hair Salon Business
• Professional ethics
• Salon management
• Retail sales
Your Future Starts Today - Apply now and take the first step towards your future in the hairstyling and barbering industry.
Don’t wait, apply today and we will follow up with all the details via email to start enrolment.
OUR CURRICLUM
13 WEEKS
Get acquainted with your tools, learn how sculpture theory informs hair design, practice shampooing, learn about the importance of infection control, first aid and microbiology, practice forming and styling hair with the use of thermal tools, brushes, and combs, try your hand at perming and relaxing hair, get introduced to colour services, and start on precision short hair cutting.
This stage will introduce you to the fundamental techniques that underpin all the subsequent stages that follow:
· Glassbox history & philosophy
· Shampooing, blow drying and finishing with products
· Styling and setting techniques
· Head shape and bone structure assessment
· Client consultation technique
· Excellent client care
· Technical theory
· Personal appraisal
Note that after a period of understanding the dynamics of hair, the basic precision cutting skills are quickly introduced.
10 WEEKS
Practice your precision short hair cutting, clipping, trimming, detailing, fading, and texturizing techniques on real clients. Combine the use of rollers, pin curls, braiding, and various techniques to produce a more complex hair service. Learn how to manage professional relationships, goal setting, building a client base, salon operations and ownership, and how to use photo, video, and social media to attract clients.
This stage continues the learning process and introduces new cutting and colouring disciplines:
· Work sessions on all cutting, styling and barbering techniques
· Recap on blow drying and consultation lecture
· Continuation of technical theory
· Color formulas
· Color charts
· Continuation of styling and setting techniques
· Expanding your product knowledge
10 WEEKS
Learn how to perform wig services, various advanced curling techniques, hair extensions, advanced coloring, and freehand fading. Network with some of our 80+ salon and barbershop partners looking to hire new talent across the country and start thinking about your career after graduation.
This stage draws together many of the skills previously learned, using live models, to give you more confidence and a more complete understanding of the total role of a hair professional.
· A recap of all cutting techniques - women and men
· Advanced color and color correction techniques
· Cutting and coloring combination
· Customer care
· Professional salon etiquette
· Coloring and technical exam
· Mock cutting practical exam
10 WEEKS
In the longest phase of the program, gain more client practice, honing your skills and area of focus under the guidance of Glassbox educators with our best in the province 1:12 educator: student ratio.
Possibly the most challenging stage of the Beginners Diploma course which is designed to give you the time to perfect the skills and utilize the knowledge you have gathered to prepare you for working in a salon environment. Working on live models morning and afternoon you will hone in on your craft. ie:
· Working on your own and using your initiative
· Working within a time frame
· Disconnection lecture, an introduction to salon creative work
· Introduction to advanced layering and graduation
· Introduction to advanced finishing techniques
· Employment interview techniques
PREMIUM EDUCATION
IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN TORONTO'S WEST END
