Hello,
I would love to become a beauty therapist, however due to location and personal circumstances I am unable to travel to college to do a course. I have seen some courses online that are equivalent to an NVQ2, would I be employable as a beauty therapist at the end of the course or would it be a waste of time as it is not an NVQ?
I have plenty of people that I can practice on and could put together a “portfolio” of work – would that help? I don’t want to start the course if no-one in the beauty industry takes distance learning qualifications seriously.

Yes,
If the portfolio was good enough and showed a lot of talent.