If you’re a makeup and skincare addict who’s keen to stop spending and start earning, you could turn your passion into power by training up and taking on a glamorous new side-hustle.
To help you get started, we've explored the cost of training courses and starter kits for 60 popular beauty treatments, along with the average price charged by professionals around the UK.
As a result, we reveal the beauty side-hustles that make the biggest profit, along with the treatments that are the trickiest to train in.
Top of the class
The quickest profitability
Miro ring hair extensions
It takes just two clients to pay off your training costs.
The biggest money maker
Semi-permanent makeup
You could earn up to £207,740 a year, if you had 10 clients a week.
The cheapest to train in
REIKI
It costs just £97.70 to become a qualified Reiki teacher.
A pain to train
The hardest hustle
Dermal fillers
You’d have to carry out 78 treatments to earn your start-up costs back.
The cheapest treatment
Eye-brow threading
You’d only earn £98 a week from 10 treatments.
The slowest to profit from
Spray tanning
You’d have to do 263 spray tans before paying off your start-up costs.
Find your new side hustle
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We scraped a wide range of beauty course providers’ websites including thebeautyacademy.org, britishbeautyacademy.co.uk and cosmeticcourses.co.uk (amongst others) to find the prices and contents of some of the UK’s most popular training courses. Where possible, we grouped larger courses together to arrive at the cheapest rate (i.e. we found a combined lash and brow course, which was cheaper overall than completing separate courses) and costs were calculated accordingly.
We then conducted additional research to find out any other start-up costs including approximate equipment costs and any other training required as a pre-requisitve for the course (i.e. NVQ training, costs for which were sourced from yourbeautytraining.com).
To calculate the average charge per treatment, we took prices from a range of salons and self employed practitioners from five cities around the UK including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Prices from all five cities were then averaged out. Potential earnings were based on ten hours of treatments per week, assuming the user is otherwise in full time employment.
Costs calculated are indicative, and do not include things like insurance and tax.
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