Pengenalan Kursus

The beauty industry refers to trades providing services and treatments intending to
maintain, enhance a person’s external physical appearance and to produce a greater
feeling of wellbeing. Beauty therapy offers a wide variety of skin/body improvement
and enhancement services performed manually or with the use of equipment/
electrical machines. The services include manual facials, face and body
electrotherapies, superfluous hair depilation and lightening, manicure and pedicure,
eyelash/eyebrow enhancement, day / evening make-up and nail artistry. All the
services are handled professionally in a safe, hygienic, well maintained salon
environment and complying with requirements of regulatory/statutory bodies. Body
and face skin consultations will be carried out first to ascertain client’s skin type and
condition before suitable services and products are recommended to clients. The
services’ procedures will follow beauty industry guidelines and other
regulatory/statutory standards/requirements to ensure the safety, health and welfare
of people engaging in services or providing employment.

Beauty skills information and knowledge will guide beauty practitioners to help
clients maintain radiant skin, healthy body and general wellbeing. The job functions
of a beauty practitioner include helping to enhance client’s face and body skin
appearance, temporarily removing and/or lightening unwanted superfluous hair,
grooming toes and finger nails, tinting eyelash and eyebrow, perming and extending
individual eyelashes and using makeup products and colours to transform client to
the desired looks for occasions. The beauty practitioners may carry out their duties
and task manually or with the aid of electrical machines and tools.

The Beauty Services Level 1 personnel is competent in performing the following core
competencies:
a) Professional Ethics, Salon Safety and Hygiene Practices;
b) Salon Reception Duties;
c) Manual Facial Services;
d) Day and Night Makeup Services;
e) Manicure Services; and
f) Pedicure Services.