Externally awarded vocational qualification · Upskilling for practitioners
Advanced Beauty Therapies
Dublin College Blackrock · Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
- Award
- CIDESCO Diploma in Beauty Therapy
- Audience & level
- AdultsAdvanced
- Format
- In person
- Price
- Not published
Regulated or invasive training
About this program
Second-year style advanced course towards the CIDESCO Diploma in Beauty Therapy and ITEC qualifications including IPL/laser and microdermabrasion, open to those with prior facial, electrical and body qualifications.
- Offering
- Vocational career program
- Fields
- Beauty therapy, Advanced skincare, Esthetician, Eyebrow technician, Lash extensions, Brow lamination
- Advertised approaches
- IPL/laser, microdermabrasion, microneedling, chemical peels, eyebrow and eyelash treatmentsAs advertised by the provider; this does not imply affiliation with any practitioner’s organisation.
- Purpose
- Upskilling for practitioners
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Externally awarded vocational qualification
- Exact award
- CIDESCO Diploma in Beauty Therapy
- Award status
- Vocational qualificationAwarded by a national or external awarding body, named on the listing. It is not by itself a licence to practise.
- Awarding body
- CIDESCO
Stated by the schoolCIDESCOAwarding-body approval
Scope: CIDESCO Diploma in Beauty Therapy (Advanced Beauty Therapies course)
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Not published
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- Dublin College BlackrockMain Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Who it is for and entry requirements
Prior qualification required
- Existing licence or registration
- Not required (as published)
- Prior education
- Dublin College Blackrock Beauty and Body Therapy Course or Facial, Electrical and Body qualifications from CIBTAC, ITEC or equivalent
- Official enrollment
- Enrollment instructions
Current enrollment availability is not confirmed here; check dates and places with the provider.
Practice, assessment and kit
As published by the provider. Mannequins, simulation, live models and workplace experience are different things and are named separately.
- Assessment
- Practical assessment, Written assessment, External exam, PortfolioEvidence of Treatments (case studies) and exams mainly in April and May; a project on advanced therapies for CIDESCO certification.
- Kit
- Kit inclusion not published
Scope, audience and prerequisites
This training involves regulated or invasive activity. The details below are as published by the provider; rules differ by jurisdiction.
- Intended audience
- Therapists already holding facial, electrical and body qualifications
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the college Beauty and Body Therapy course or CIBTAC/ITEC facial, electrical and body qualifications
- Jurisdiction
- Ireland
- Techniques covered
- IPL/laser, microdermabrasion, microneedling, chemical peels
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Tuition, registration, kit, consumables, uniform and assessment charges are listed separately. Each price keeps its basis and is never converted, and an instalment is never the total.
The provider does not publish a price for this offering on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and any deposit or refund terms.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, kit inclusion, duration.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 23 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 23 October 2026)