Project Description

Become a Licensed Hairstylist.

1500 hour full time diploma hair program

Elevate your creativity and passion in our hairstyling program. This hairstyling program will open doors to allow you a range of career choices transferable to anywhere in the world. In less than a year you can become a hair stylist, colourist, salon owner, beauty sales rep or runway artist. Learn the art of colour, style and hair design at a leading hairstyling program in Nova Scotia.

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You will flourish in our hairstyling program as a result of our out of the box learning environment of using a mix of techniques to ensure you learn the material that you need to succeed. We offer an innovative online learning platform designed specifically for the beauty industry and abundant hands on practice. In addition, we’ve added social and fun back into school to help you stay connected and engaged.

Completely dedicated to helping you succeed by providing an unmatched school experience.

  • Best in class educational content
  • Small class sizes providing leading instructor to student ratios
  • Innovative delivery methods
  • More than just a classroom

Topics You Will Learn Include

  • Design Elements from the natural environment that influence art, fashion and hair trends. This is done with theory and amazing nature hikes to local walking trails here in the beautiful Annapolis Valley within 5 minutes of Elevate Beauty!

  • How to deal with “compassion fatigue”, a common yet rarely addressed risk factor of being a person with the license to touch.

  • Field trips to local beauty distributors to learn how to be a smart and savvy shopper for your beauty business needs!

  • Theory classes that are fun, exciting & engaging. We believe humour, “out of the box” delivery, and many hot tips you won’t find in the textbook are the best recipe for retention and understanding. Our small class sizes allow for great one on one attention and time for discussion.

  • All hair textures are studied and how to transform hair from curly to straight or straight to curly and anything in between. Curls are coming back and you will be ready for it!

  • Ergonomic, wellness and nutrition tips for salon professionals who need to protect and nourish their most important tool, their body!

  • Business building strategies that are time tested to work to super charge your appointment bookings to build a large and lucrative clientele as quickly as possible. You will also learn the critical steps to owning your own salon if this is your dream! We teach about SMART goal setting and how to use intention + action to make it happen!

  • How to deal with the personal obstacles that can arise as we transform through education. We find that addressing the many manifestations of fear with compassion and openness makes the journey less difficult. We create a supportive and caring culture as you journey toward your goals.

  • We learn advanced colour change techniques and current colour trends like balayage, colour melting and how to achieve those professional results from the natural to the wild and crazy colours our clients love!

Intake Dates

  • Sept 2026
  • March 2027

Hairstyling Program Outline

  • Orientation and Career Planning
  • General Sciences
  • Hair Theory, Scalp Care and Design
  • Cutting
  • Styling Design & Additions
  • Colour & Chemical Services

Costs

Total Pricing: $17,293

Includes:

  • Tuition
  • Professional kit
  • Books
  • CANS admin and licensing fee

Grants and funding available, contact us for more details.

Program costs are subject to change without notice.

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Entrance Requirements

  • Completed application form accompanied by $100 non-refundable application fee
  • Successful interview
  • High school diploma, successful completion of an approved post secondary program, GED, or successful completion of approved test (contact us for details)
  • Copy of transcript for last grade achieved
  • Resume

Housing

  • Elevate Beauty offers student housing. Spaces limited, contact us to find out more.
Ready to Start a New Career? Apply Now

Join the Elevate Beauty family.

Contact us for a tour of Elevate, learn about the hairstyling program and to meet our staff and students. Find out why we feel we are your education’s best choice.

This program is approved and regulated by the Department of Labour and Advanced Education and the Cosmetology Association of Nova Scotia.

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Looking for a hairstyling program in Nova Scotia?

Elevate Beauty has a leading hairstyling program in New Minas, an hour outside of Halifax, offering a 1500 hour full time diploma hair program designed to provide students with all the skills and experience necessary to become professional hairstylist.

Ready to Start a New Career? Apply Now

Frequently Asked Questions

Below you will find answers to the most common questions asked regarding our Hairstylist Diploma program.

Our 1500 hour full time diploma hairstylist program cost as seen above. This fee covers your tuition, professional kits, academic resources such as books as well as your CANS admins and licensing fee.

Requirements for admission to our hairstylist program include: a high school diploma, successful completion of a post-secondary program, GED, or successful completion of an approved test.

We offer the best-in-class education with our hair program. We aim to ensure that each student gets maximum attention and equal exposure to all learning processes hence the reduced number. We pride our self on the high demand for our students which has earned our graduates exceptionally high employment rates upon graduation.

For our hairstyling program, we run 2 intakes per year in the Fall and Spring of each year.

We have a reduced number of intakes for our hairstyling program to improve focus and increase productivity. We also limit the number of students in our classes to maximize our instructor to student ratio.

At Elevate Beauty, we believe that a smaller number of students help improve student engagement and also help to monitor students better.  Our hairstyling program has a maximum number of 12 students.

There’s a myriad of options to explore as a hairstylist. From being a top sought-after hairstylist to a prestigious salon, cruise ship spa/salon, business entrepreneur, educator, distributor, fashion shows, and more.

Our hairstyling program will help you get licensed which would enable you to make a worthy living and a fulfilled life either as a full-time career or as a substantial career while fueling your passion.

Please note that the licensing fee is covered by your tuition.

a) Any application or registration fees are non-refundable

b) Supply and Student Kits are non-refundable except where items are returned unopened or as issued no later than 5 business days after the end of student enrollment.

c) 100% of tuition will be refunded in the event enrollment ends before the program start date.

d) Except as otherwise noted in the Private Career Colleges Act or these regulations, a student whose end of enrollment occurs after the program start date and before the program end date, the following table outlines the refund applicable:

Percentage of Hours of Program delivered to End of Enrollment Refund (Minus any registration fee credited to tuition under subsection 51(2)) Program 12 weeks or longer

0-25%

Any tuition paid for the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th quarters of the program

>25%-50%

Any tuition paid for the 3rd or 4th quarters of the program

>50%-75%

Any tuition paid for the 4th quarter of the program

>75%

None

e) All refunds applicable will be paid within 30 days from the end of enrolment.

There’s never a time too late to fuel your passion or pursue your dream.  Your experience and perspective which comes with age will be a great asset to you either as a hairstylist.

Maturity and life experience will make you an even better salon or spa professional since it takes many life skills on top of job skills to be successful. After all, things like dependability, work ethic, and flexibility seem to come more naturally as we age.

First and foremost you need people skills. The desire to help people feel great. In addition, patience, time management, and reliability are also key aspects of success. Talent can certainly help but we’re here to teach you the skills.

Yes, you will get a diploma upon graduating from our Hairstylist program.

Yes, all of our programs have final exams at the end of your program to help prepare you for your provincial licensing exam.

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