The National Beauty Academy
Jam-Packed January 2024
BY OLIVIA WILSON
Welcome to The National Beauty Academy’s January Newsletter. We would like to begin by wishing all of our learners, employees and supporters a Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2024 with a January update that is packed full of motivation, inspiration and positive change. We have a total of thirteen new subjects starting these include advanced skincare, massage and nail courses. We have two new additions to our team and a student whose brilliance has not gone unnoticed at NBA! Keep reading for more January updates from us.
Cheryl Havelaar – Chapman Centre Manager
Help us welcome the new NBA Centre Manager Cheryl Havelaar-Chapman. You may know Cheryl as our existing Make-Up and Massage Assessor, due to her hard work and determination she has been given promotional opportunity within the company and has progressed onto the Centre Manager role with effect from 1st of January 2024. In short, Cheryl has overall responsibility for the centre, the staff and the students. Her responsibilities are to oversee the smooth running of courses and manage all aspects of the centre. Cheryl has some fresh new ideas for the academy which have been implemented as soon as this month with the help of her team! Cheryl has her own business CHC Beauty & Wellness and home-schools both of her children in her spare time.
Alicia Carrillo – Assessor
Help us welcome the new Assessor Alicia. She will be teaching commercial courses including reflexology, massage, lashes and hopi ear candling. She will also be taking on a Level 3 Nail Technology classes. She has over sixteen years in the beauty sector and runs her own business alongside her teaching career. We have been very excited for Alicia to be join us, she has already had a positive impact on learners and the team at NBA. We have no doubt that she will play a major role in the success of her learners and you will see her unboxing some of our brand new Nail Technology kits next month!
Upcoming Course Schedule
- Courses
- Pregnancy and Remedial Massage Package
- Russian Lashes
- Express Nails
- Brow Lamination and Lash Lift Package
- Dermaplaning and Microneedle Package
- Luxury Facials and Scalp Massage Package
- Chemical Peel Course
- Date
- 05/02/2024
- 07/02/2024
- 08/02/2024
- 12/02/2024
- 14/02/2024
- 19/02/2024
- 27/02/2024
Student Spotlight
Hi! I’m Adele and this is my student spotlight, so here goes…
I have always had an interest in beauty, at first it was more for myself that as a career choice. I had been watching nail and makeup tutorials and having a go at home for quite a while, and more so after I gave up my Social Work career through stress. My friend and I bumped into one another, and she told me she was enrolling on a nail course. She asked me if I wanted to do it with her and I said yes.
I love to learn, I enjoy assignments, research, even the exams so it was great to challenge myself as it had been a while since I’d been in any sort of learning. I just loved all of the artistry. I was appalling at even painting nails when I started, and yet by the end I had been taught, and further developed a real love for finer art, and quirky techniques. Honesty, whilst the learning was fun, my favourite part, and the reason I’ve gone onto the combined beauty course after was meeting the people at NBA, being part of something again. I haven’t worked for eight years and whilst I have lots of great friends meeting new people is my passion. I love helping people and being a supportive part of the team, and I feel that the students and tutors at the NBA are really good at that too. I have made more great friends through the NBA!
It was a very different type of course from what I’ve done before as my background was as a Nursery Nurse and Social Worker. However, it has been exactly as it should be for a vocational course, the background learning, alongside the practical, and lots and lots of practice and student lead learning, Google, YouTube and Pinterest are definitely your friends when doing a course like this!
Kaye is a fantastic tutor, encouraging and supportive. She never made us feel like we weren’t good enough, just always giving us the tools we needed to get better.
As for the students, as I said above, I’ve made great friends, at the academy, people come from all different backgrounds, and with different experiences and we all bring our skills together and share, so we all improve. I couldn’t have got through and learned the skills I have, without the camaraderie of my fellow students.
I feel that the practical skills have been what I’ve gained most during my time at NBA, and ignited a love of MUA that before was just an interest. However, what the course has allowed me to do is use my people skills, help my fellow students, lend a hand, and remind me how much I love being part of something.
My plan is to go into making and selling my bespoke artificial press-on nails, I have begun looking at how to go about all of this and feel this is where my future will take me as I can work around my own lifestyle and commitments.
I am really overwhelmed that I have been nominated for the VTCT Excellence Awards, it’s a special thing to be thought of as good enough for an accolade like this and it means a great deal to me. I know the college have some fantastic talent so to be nominated by Kaye is incredible.
I’d like to say a huge thank you to Kaye, Vanessa and Georgia who have all been immensely supportive during my journey, and certainly without Kaye’s encouragement I wouldn’t have even passed my nail course, let alone come back for more. Most of all I’d like to say thank you to both cohorts of students who have accompanied me on my journey, as well as those on other courses who keep me going. As a final and huge thank you, without Helen Jobling I wouldn’t have even known about the course!
