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Weekend Esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) Program Near Chantilly, VA — Get Licensed in 600 Hours
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Your Passion for Skin Care Deserves a Real Career. Start This Weekend.
AVI Career Training’s 600-hour Esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) program is designed for exactly who you are: someone with a full life Monday through Friday who is ready to build something bigger on the weekends. Located in Vienna, VA — roughly 15 minutes from Chantilly — AVI gives you the hands-on training, state-recognized credential, and career-ready skills to step into Virginia’s growing skincare industry without pausing your current life to do it.
This isn’t a side hustle path. It’s a licensed profession. And we’ll get you there.
APPLY NOW — IT’S FREE TO START
📞 Questions first? Call us: (703) 943-9841
Three reasons students choose AVI:
| ✅ COE Accredited + SCHEV Certified | ✅ Weekend Schedule — Built for Working Adults | ✅ Flexible Payment Plans · GI Bill® Accepted |
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Why Choose AVI Career Training for Esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM)?
There are other esthetics schools in Northern Virginia. Here is why the students who actually research their options choose AVI.
1. Weekend Scheduling — Because Monday Through Friday Is Already Spoken For
Most esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) programs expect you to rearrange your entire life around a weekday schedule. AVI’s program does not. Our weekend format is built specifically for adults who are working, parenting, caregiving, or otherwise committed during the week. You show up on weekends. You build your skills. You graduate. You get licensed. Your current responsibilities stay intact while your future grows alongside them.
We know the question you are already asking: Which days? What are the hours? Contact our admissions team and we will walk you through the exact schedule so you can see precisely how it fits your life before you commit to anything.
2. COE Accredited and SCHEV Certified — Two Authorities, One School
Accreditation is not a technicality. It is proof that an independent body has evaluated a school’s curriculum, instructors, student outcomes, and institutional practices — and found them to meet national standards.
AVI Career Training holds dual recognition:
- COE (Council on Occupational Education) accreditation, the same national standard recognized by employers nationwide
- SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia) certification, confirming we meet Virginia’s specific requirements for operating a postsecondary institution
What this means for you: your education is credible, your hours count toward Virginia licensure, and your credential travels. When you walk into a salon, spa, medical practice, or licensing exam, you walk in with proof behind you.
Competitors may hold one. AVI holds both.
3. Hands-On Training from Day One — Not Theory in a Classroom
Reading about a chemical peel is not the same as performing one. At AVI, you learn by doing. Our esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) students work in a real training environment, practicing on live models and building the muscle memory and client-communication skills that employers actually hire for.
Small class sizes mean your instructor knows your name, watches your technique, and corrects your form before bad habits set in. This is not a lecture hall. This is a working skin care floor where you are the practitioner.
By the time you sit for your Virginia Board of Barbering and Cosmetology licensing exam, you will have performed the services — not just studied them.
4. Inclusive Training for Every Skin Tone — A Real Differentiator
Esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) education that only teaches you to work on one narrow range of skin tones is incomplete education. Period.
At AVI, inclusive skin care is not a marketing line — it is woven into how we teach. You will learn to analyze, treat, and recommend for melanin-rich skin, sensitive skin, mature skin, and everything in between. Fitzpatrick scale literacy. Hyperpigmentation. Post-inflammatory concerns. The nuanced differences that matter when you are working on a real client who trusts you with their skin.
In a region as beautifully diverse as the Chantilly–Reston–Herndon corridor, this is not optional. It is what makes you hireable — and it is what makes you excellent.
5. Located Minutes from Chantilly — No DC Commute Required
AVI Career Training is located at 1595 Spring Hill Rd #720, Vienna, VA 22182 — a quick drive from Chantilly, Centreville, Herndon, Reston, and Sterling. You are not commuting into the District. You are not circling for parking. You are driving 10 to 20 minutes, walking into a professional training environment, and building your career.
If you have been putting off esthetics school because everything felt too far or too inconvenient — this removes that barrier entirely.
Esthetics (NO FINANCIAL AID FOR THIS PROGRAM) Program Curriculum — What You Will Learn in 600 Hours
Virginia requires 600 hours of esthetics education to sit for the state licensing exam. At AVI, those 600 hours are structured to give you both the theoretical foundation and the hands-on competency that turn a certificate into a career.
Core Skills You Will Master
Skin Science & Analysis
Understanding skin is everything in esthetics. You will learn skin anatomy and physiology, how to assess skin types and conditions, the Fitzpatrick scale, and how to build treatment plans for individual clients — not one-size-fits-all protocols.
Facials & Facial Treatments
From basic cleansing and extractions to advanced treatment facials, you will learn the full spectrum of facial services
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