QQI Level 5 Hairdressing case studies
QQI Level 5 Hairdressing · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The QQI Level 5 Certificate in Hairdressing is an Irish further-education award for people who want to work as a junior or graduate stylist in a salon, or to progress to a Level 6 or higher award. It suits school leavers, career changers, and practising assistants who need a recognised qualification to move from shampooing and assisting into cutting, colouring, and styling roles. The QQI Level 5 Hairdressing case studies are 5 cases and about 3,595 words.
1The eight-week henna client who wants blonde
Client, 34, has applied a 'henna-based' box colour every six weeks for two years; her last application was eight weeks ago. Her natural depth is a level 5, but mid-lengths and ends read as a level 3 with a faint greenish cast under the salon's daylight lamp.
753 words, about 4 min2The back room with no extraction
Saturday morning in a six-chair salon. Colour is mixed in a windowless back room with no extraction; the door is propped open with a mop bucket.
707 words, about 4 min3The photo that doesn't match the hair
Client, 22, has fine, limp hair, natural level 7, and a strong cowlick at the crown. She brings a photo of a thick-haired model with a blunt chin-length bob and full curtain fringe.
733 words, about 4 min4Perm on previously coloured hair
Client, 45, is a level 6 with about 30% grey. Her last permanent tint, mixed with 20-volume peroxide, was three weeks ago.
710 words, about 4 min5The Saturday trainee
You are a second-year QQI Level 5 work-experience trainee in a busy Dublin salon. It is Saturday at 10:30, eight clients are booked before 2pm, and the senior stylist asks you to apply a full-head permanent tint to a regular client while she takes a walk-in blow-dry.
692 words, about 3 min