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Level 3 Beauty Therapy
Getting ready for assessment
All the practical assessments for this unit must be carried out with clients in the salon, in a realistic working
environment setting, including the client paying for the treatment and it being carried out in a commercial time.
Your assessor will observe your performance on at least four separate occasions, each time on different clients. This should
include two full body stone therapy treatments. Within the practical element of this unit you must also show that you
have met the ranges expected for the types of stones in your assessment book and the use of three out of the four types.
Tip – when choosing your ranges think carefully about the types of stone you wish to use. Crystal therapy is regarded as
a specialised in-depth subject in its own right, and you may feel you want to be a more experienced therapist before using
crystals in your stone treatments.
You should be able to use all the equipment and adapt your treatment to suit the client’s physical characteristics and
meet all the treatment objectives listed in your ranges. However, the actual massage movements for the stones are
not assessable and you can adapt your massage to suit the client and how comfortable you feel with both hot and cold
stones. As with Swedish body massage, as long as the movements are recognisable and the assessors can see you have
adapted the movements to suit the client, you will be considered competent. It would be good practice for you to have at
least one male client and you could try to incorporate stones into treatments such as manicures and pedicures, or facials.
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Never feel that if the assessor asks you a question it is a criticism or that you are doing something wrong – it is for
clarification and they may not have been watching a particular movement or procedure.
The more you use the stones the more confident you will become under assessment conditions.
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