If you would like to work as a retail sales assistant selling and demonstrating beauty and cosmetic products in a chemist, salon, or department store, this is the qualification for you!
With the Certificate II in Retail Cosmetics, you'll gain the skills and knowledge required to help customers choose beauty products; apply makeup; and skin care products. You'll also learn how to set up merchandise displays; organise stock; use point of sale technology and equipment; and provide excellent customer service.
This is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in the makeup or beauty industry!
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Get into in a rewarding career making people look and feel their very best.
Gain the necessary experience to become a retail sales staff member who works across a range of tasks to sell and demonstrate beauty or cosmetic products, this can include in workplaces like beauty and hairdressing salons, retail outlets and department stores. This certificate will prepare you for the basics within the beauty industry. Retail staff follow known routines and procedures and work under direct supervision.
You will also gain the skills to work as a freelance make-up artist or at a cosmetic counter, within a salon or a day spa.
Enhance your employment options by doing a dual qualification
At our Geraldton Campus this qualification is offered as a dual qualification with:
This entry level qualification will give you the start you need to work in a hairdressing salon. You will obtain the skills, knowledge and confidence to get your career as a hairdresser underway and improve your opportunities for obtaining a hairdressing apprenticeship.
As a salon assistant you will be the first staff member to greet a client for their appointment. It is your job to provide them with excellent customer service and ensure that the hairdressers have what they need throughout each appointment.
During this course, participants will gain the skills and knowledge required to apply make-up products for day as well as hair styles for evening or special occasions.
Participants will also learn how to consult with clients, analyse face and skin, and demonstrate how to apply make-up products to suit each individual client's needs or make-up brief.
When you complete this course, you will be ready for a career in retail cosmetics. You will have the skills and knowledge for the role of Retail Sales personnel involved in a defined range of tasks to sell and demonstrate beauty or cosmetic products. You will follow known routines and procedures and work under direct supervision.
You'll gain the skills and knowledge required to help customers choose beauty products, apply makeup, and skin care products. You'll also learn how to set up merchandise displays, organise stock, use point of sale technology and equipment, and provide excellent customer service.
While studying this course you'll be working practically with applying and recommending skin, make up and nail products.
Choose a private training provider that delivers this course
This course is available from registered training organisations (accredited private training providers) that are also funded through Jobs and Skills WA. Select from the list below, and follow the link to the provider's website for further information about the course and how to enrol.
Do you have a passion for beauty? Don’t let your skills go to waste! Give your career a make-over! This qualification SHB20121 Certificate II in Retail Cosmetics reflects the role of retail sales personnel to sell and demonstrate cosmetic products. They follow known routines and procedures and work under direct supervision. This course runs over approximately 20 weeks. Open to ages 15 and above.
Delivery location
This qualification provides participants with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to secure entry level employment in a beauty salon or spa working towards becoming a retail sales consultant, makeup artist or beauty salon assistant.
This qualification can be delivered as a School-Based and Aboriginal School-Based Traineeship program delivered with a combination of on-and-off-the-job training in the Perth Metro and Peel Regions.
Delivery locations
SHB20121 Certificate II in Retail Cosmetics is a nationally recognised qualification under the Hairdressing and Beauty Services Training Package (SHB). Certificate II in Retail Cosmetics is the entry level qualification to the make-up industry. The course has been designed for those wanting to develop skills and knowledge to sell, demonstrate and apply cosmetic make-up products to an industry standard. You will learn how to consult with clients, analyse face and skin, and demonstrate how to apply make-up products to suit each individual client’s requirements. You will also develop a range of skills such as how to create the right look for day, evening and special occasions as well as popular make-up techniques. Also learn an introduction to customer service and retail operations, how to promote a range of cosmetic products as well as blow-drying and braiding hair. This course will allow you to develop skills, knowledge & techniques to proceed in this exciting and creative industry. You will attend campus 4 days per week and 1 day home based study. You will be supplied makeup brushes to keep and all other items that are required to undertake the course with support from Trainers, Assessors and LLN support staff.
Delivery location
The information presented on the course lists within this website is provided to the Department of Training and Workforce Development by the WA TAFE colleges and private training providers, and is offered as a guide only. It is updated regularly, however some changes to details may occur in between updates. You should always contact the TAFE or private training provider directly to confirm details and/or ask questions.