L'oreal Junior Degree

[JewlZ]

I am totally New to hairdressing and barbering, and have not taken the normal route of studying it at college or working in a salon. Due to work commitments, time and money, I am doing evening or day courses as advertised.

I am interested in doing the L'oreal junior degree as it's for complete beginners and is an established brand. However, the course is run over 5 days only. Is this really enough to learn all the basics, compared to students who learn for a yr or two? Not complaning, but compared to other courses, it seems quite cheap for such a renowned brand. Do you know if this course is supposed to compliment a student working/learning already or can any beginner just attend?

Would appreciate help/ advice and most importantly, any experience. :biggrin:

Many thanks!

 

[persianista]

It qualifies you to work as a junior! We would use a course like that to polish one of our apprentices. You will not be a hairdresser after 5 days.
It teaches junior skills such as gowning/shampooing/conditioning/correct posture/ holding scissors etc etc, not cutting or colouring.

 

[JewlZ]

Thanks Persianista, what would be the next step you would take after completion of this course? And would you recommend this course or the Matrix one. I noticed in other posts, people talking about how L'oreal's colour tubes being small, I know I'm not at this stage yet, but I always like to think ahead...

 

[persianista]

I only really know about the courses we use for the salon. If you want to be a hairdresser you need NVQ2. SAKS do fast track NVQ's but the minimum a salon owner would expect is a six month intensive.

Short courses don't really work for hair in the way they work for beauty. They are more of a polishing thing rather than to teach a hair subject from scratch. There are too many variables in hair to teach the whole of cutting or the whole of colouring, and allow time to practice, in just a week.

 

[JewlZ]

Thanks for this Persianista, didn't think it was at all possible/practical to learn in a week. :suprised: Final question: L'oreal or Matrix training for a beginner and for future long-term, low-cost..