Training salon provides beauty at an affordable price for locals

Waiariki Hair Beauty Body and Spa

Prices for hairdressing:

Cuts $10

Blow waves $5

Shampoo and set $5

Fashion colours from $20

Retouch colour from $20

Permanent straightening from $80

Hair ups $10

Full head foils from $45

Toners from $20

Prices for beauty are yet to be drafted.

 

Waiariki Institute of Technology's building, trades, hairdressing and beauty students are getting hands-on experience with the opening of its new hairdressing and beauty facility - but it also means cheap deals for locals too.

The institute's new hairdressing and beauty training facility lets Rotorua students get on-the-job training and their building and trades students have also carried out the building and electrical work of the Eruera St site.

Waiariki Hair Beauty Body and Spa opened last week and it's promising cheaper rates for locals.

The facility will train 62 students. The salon is open to the public at a discounted rate, with students supervised by professionals while working with clients.

Section manager Kymberley Paige said they started moving in last week and the salon was ready to go.

"We started looking at doing this at the beginning of the year.

"Another beauty facility called Images, who trained their own students, closed down in town and we wanted to provide something for those students."

Mrs Paige said they moved a few doors up from their old hairdressing facility, Hairspray, to the new and improved building which included extra space for body and spa facilities.

"So this is the first year we have been able to offer a beauty diploma."

She said the salon offered massages, facials, waxing, manicures, pedicures, spray tanning, eye lash extensions and perming, makeup and of course hairdressing.

The facility includes three separate rooms, one for hairdressing and makeup and two for massage and body.

Mrs Paige said the beauty and hairdressing courses ranged from one to two years and were endorsed by the United Kingdom's well-known vocational education organisation City and Guilds.

"The courses are delivered under City and Guilds which means they will be recognised in 100 countries worldwide."

She said it was quite common for students with the beauty qualification to gain jobs on big cruises, with some students being looked at for that pathway in November.

Waiariki School of Trade Training director Kevin Uncles said there was enough room at the facility for 40 students to be working at once.

"What we're trying to do is create a realistic working environment for these students."

The beauty salon is open from 9am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday with a late night on Thursdays to 7pm. Bookings are by appointment only, please visit the shop or call (07) 347 6376.

An official grand opening is expected to be held by the end of the month.