Hairstyling (Accelerated)

St. Lawrence College’s Hairstyling diploma program offers practical, theoretical, and experiential learning opportunities to prepare students for an exciting career in the Hairstyling industry. Students gain knowledge and skills in all areas of hairstyling, including haircutting, styling, chemical services, hair additions as well as career preparation and business operations.

This diploma program is fast-tracked and students complete a two-year diploma and are ready to begin their careers in just 47 weeks. The faculty and staff at St. Lawrence College are a group of highly trained, skilled professionals with years of experience in both the Hairstyling and educational fields, and many of the faculty are graduates of their program. The faculty team is continually updating their skills to offer students the most current hairstyling techniques and trends to prepare them for this ever-changing industry.

The Hairstyling (Accelerated) diploma program meets the 1,500 vocational training hours required by the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development. Graduates are then eligible to complete an Apprenticeship (without completing any exemption testing), after which time graduates are eligible to write the Certificate of Qualification (C of Q) exam to become a licensed Hairstylist in Ontario.

What You’ll Learn

• Entrepreneurial skills: communications and ethics, career planning and marketing, and business operations.
• Applied salon services.
• Haircutting: the fundamentals, barbering fundamentals, and advanced haircutting techniques.
• Salon safety standards.
• Hairstyling: preparatory procedures, formal styling, and advanced hair design.
• Chemical services: introduction to hair colouring techniques, intermediate hair colouring and chemical techniques, and advanced hair colouring.
• Textured hair techniques and hair additions.
• Licensing exam preparation.