About & Description

Welcome to Cut Above, New Zealand’s top training provider in hair and makeup. For over forty years now, we’ve been giving students their edge.

We’re providing future professionals with the tools of the trade. The Cut Above Academy has been an integral part of New Zealand’s fashion history for over thirty years and it continues to play an important role in producing future hairdressers and make-up artists. The qualifications offered by the Cut Above Academy are first-class credentials in contemporary image making. We offer a unique range of fulltime courses in hairdressing, beauty therapy, nail art and make-up artistry for fashion, film, and FX production. Each course is designed to exacting industry standards and approved by the NZQA as a quality assured qualification.In today’s beauty and creative workforces you need to be multi-skilled. Salon and beauty clinic owners want operators with extra skills in make-up or nail artistry. Production companies want make-up and FX artists who can style hair, create prosthetics and assist in wardrobe, props and fashion styling. Our wide-ranging syllabus allows you to add these skills to your CV – or progress to training in another field at the end of your chosen course. As the driving force in image-making training we produce more skilled graduates for these workforces than any other school. Cut Above is the only NZ academy where you can gain an equivalent range of nationally recognised credits in all of these fields.