This program is for you if…

You want to build a profitable hairstyling career and aim for more than $500 in revenue per day, renting a chair or working for yourself.

Indicative goal: results depend on your experience, your clientele, your prices and your pace of work, among other factors.

You want to master professional techniques and develop your skills in order to deliver more precise and more consistent results.

You have the basics, but now you want to build confidence and start taking paying clients.

Hairstyling • Intermediate

Cutting Strategy

Build every cut on logic, not on habit.

Understanding the structure of a cut allows you to adapt it to any head, explain your choices to the client, and reliably reproduce a result.

Professional hairstylist executing a structured cut on a model in a workshop

Examples

The variety of cuts taught

From structured cuts to the feminine bob, the program explores techniques adapted to different face shapes and hair textures.

Professional hairstylist executing a structured cut on a model in a workshop
Women's bob haircut — example of a professional result

In practice

The program in action

Techniques demonstrated in real conditions, attentive guidance and a professional result.

Demonstration of a cutting technique on a model.
Final result of a long layered haircut with bangs
Final result — professional cut and styling
Duration
4 months
Next date
To be announced
Group
Minimum of 10 participants
Tuition
CA$3,000 + taxes
Choice of locations
MontrealQatarMoroccoDubai

In-person training

Prerequisites

  • Mastery of the basics of scissors handling
  • Regular practice in a salon or initial training

What you will be able to do

  • Analyze morphology and growth patterns before cutting
  • Choose consistent sections, angles, and elevations
  • Create or remove volume in a controlled manner
  • Adapt a cut to fine, thick, curly, or straight hair
  • Explain the construction of the cut to the client

Curriculum

Detailed content

Each module follows the same logic: diagnostic, commented demonstration, workshop practice, then individual correction.

MODULE 1 — Morphology and Physiognomy

Learning objective: Know how to observe the client's morphology to adapt the shape, volumes, and structure of the cut.

  • Analyze the skull shape
  • Identify different face shapes
  • Study body types and general balance

MODULE 2 — Styling and Movement Creation

Learning objective: Master the placement, direction, and construction of movement to achieve a precise result.

  • Choose and position rollers according to the desired effect
  • Create and control volume
  • Perform waves and curls

MODULE 3 — Cuts, Techniques and Tools

Learning objective: Understand the structure and execution of fundamental cuts to achieve a balanced and professional result.

  • Perform a bob cut
  • Master a layered cut
  • Build a graduated cut
  • Choose and handle tools adapted to each technique

MODULE 4 — Supervised Practice

  • Full execution on a model or study head
  • Individual correction of gesture and posture
  • Finishing and styling for enhancement

Professional technique

Teaching diagram of sections and cutting lines for a graduated haircut
1

Understand the cutting plan

Studying the sections, the cutting lines and the weight distribution before starting.

Professional demonstration of the graduated cutting technique with scissors
2

Master the movement and elevation

Working precisely on tension, elevation angle and guide in order to create an even graduation.

Final result of an asymmetrical graduated haircut on brown hair
3

Achieve a balanced result

Controlling the silhouette, the weight line and the finishing to obtain a clean, harmonious cut.

Objective: be able to reproduce a structured graduated haircut, adapted to the face shape and the desired result.

Materials and supplies

  • Printed and digital pedagogical support
  • Training book provided
  • Professional equipment and products necessary for practice to be brought by the student
  • No professional equipment or practice products are included in the training price

Our work

Haircuts created during the program

Textured bob haircut created during the hairstyling program
Textured bob haircut
Final result of a long layered haircut with smooth styling and movement
Long layered haircut with movement
Structured short blonde haircut created during the hairstyling program
Structured short blonde haircut

Google reviews

Reviews from our students

5.0/5 — 6 Google reviews

Google review excerpts

  • « With Promesse Académie, I found my confidence. »
    Manouchecar Bruno5 stars (Google review excerpt)
  • « I am leaving with new techniques, a new vision and above all renewed confidence. »
    Senora5 stars (Google review excerpt)
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Frequently asked questions

Before you register

Do I need to come with a model?

Modalities regarding models are specified before registration.

Is the training suitable for textured hair?

Yes, material analysis and adaptations for curly and coily hair are part of the program.

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