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Medic-Led Skincare Training · Liverpool City Centre
MSTA’s academies sit in the heart of Liverpool city centre, on Rodney Street and Chapel Street. Around 80% of our students travel in from across the UK to train here, and most make a week of it. If you’re local, it’s all on your doorstep.
Ofqual regulated · VTCT Skills approved centre · 1,000+ students trained · 5.0★ from 100+ Google reviews
Our story
In 2014, our founder Kirsty Stevenson opened the Model Standards Skincare Clinic on Rodney Street, Liverpool’s historic medical street. The clinic earned a reputation for one thing: results-led skin work, done properly.
Clients kept asking the same question: who trains you? So in 2018, the Model Standards Training Academy was born. A medic-led academy where the standards of the clinic became the standards of the classroom.
Since then, more than 1,000 students have trained with us and over 500 careers have been launched, from our two academies in Liverpool city centre. You still train in real clinic conditions, on real clients, because that is where real confidence comes from.
Visit us
Training takes place across our Chapel Street and Rodney Street locations in Liverpool city centre. Drop us a message before visiting so we know to expect you.
Ground Floor, Yorkshire House, 18 Chapel Street, Liverpool, L3 9AG
Our city centre academy in the heart of Liverpool’s business district: bright, modern training rooms five minutes from both Moorfields and Lime Street.
Closest station: Liverpool Moorfields
31 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L1 9EH
Our flagship Grade II listed academy on Liverpool’s most storied medical street, also home to the original Model Standards Skincare Clinic.
Closest station: Liverpool Lime Street
Day to day
Forget lecture theatres. Training happens in small cohorts, inside working clinic spaces, with educators who still treat clients every week.
You start the day with your cohort and your educator. Skin science, anatomy and the protocols behind the treatments you'll deliver that afternoon. Small groups, lots of questions, no lecture-hall energy.
Your educator, a working clinician, demonstrates the full treatment on a real model. You watch the consultation, the technique and the clinical reasoning up close.
Then it's your turn. You treat real clients under close supervision, in real clinic conditions. This is where confidence is actually built, and it's why students travel so far to train here.
You finish with a debrief: what went well, what to refine, what's coming tomorrow. Then the evening is yours, and Liverpool does evenings very well.
Travelling in
If you’ve been searching for skincare courses near you and keep landing on Liverpool, there’s a reason. Students come to us from every corner of the UK, and getting here is easier than you’d think.
Liverpool Lime Street has direct trains from most major UK cities, and Rodney Street is a short walk from the station. Chapel Street sits five minutes from Moorfields, right in the business district.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport serves domestic and European routes, with Manchester Airport also within easy reach. From either, you can be in the city centre without any fuss.
Most travelling students book a few nights nearby and make a week of it. We have accommodation recommendations close to both academies, including partner hotels with discounted rates for MSTA students. Just ask the team.
Training by day, the city by night: the docks, the food, the music. Most students tell us their training week felt like the best kind of getaway. One that changed their career.
Course dates
Every MSTA course runs here in Liverpool. These are the next confirmed intakes; the full calendar always has the latest.
Mon 3 – Fri 7 Aug · 5 days
Liverpool · Rodney Street · Discussed on your discovery call
Mon 3 – Wed 5 Aug · 3 days
Liverpool · Chapel Street · Discussed on your discovery call
Mon 10 – Fri 14 Aug · 5 days
Liverpool · Rodney Street · Discussed on your discovery call
Mon 24 – Fri 28 Aug · 5 days
Liverpool · Chapel Street · Discussed on your discovery call
Trusted partners
MSTA work with Dermaceutic Laboratoire, SkinPen Precision, Mesoestetic, Dermalogica and Cosmacure Biotechnologies, alongside VTCT Skills and the CPD Certification Service.
A deliberate focus
Liverpool has plenty of beauty schools covering nails, lashes and make-up. MSTA is not one of them, on purpose. We do one thing: skin. Advanced facials, chemical peels, microneedling, dermaplaning, and the clinical knowledge to use each one safely and brilliantly.
That focus matters, because skin is where the industry is going. In 2025, skincare sales outsold make-up for the first time ever, and clients everywhere are looking for trained, insured professionals who can deliver real results.
So if you’re weighing up beauty courses, ask yourself which skill you want to be known for. If the answer is skin, you’re in the right place. Start with our complete beginners pathway or explore our Ofqual-regulated VTCT qualifications, all taught here in Liverpool.
Real MSTA graduates who trained at our Liverpool academies, now running skincare businesses across the UK.
Straight from Google
Rated 5.0 from 100+ Google reviews, written by real MSTA graduates.
See all our reviews on Google
Collette Smith · Milele Skin
Felicity Burgin · Penelope Skin Clinic
Danielle Halkyard · Pure Glow Huddersfield
Kirby Timmins
Deb Ho · Skin Essential
Hayley Collins
Amy Fairclough · Studio Glow
Sacha Horseman · Fake It Aesthetics Bristol
Melissa Baiz · Suco Skin
We train across two city-centre academies. Our flagship is a Grade II listed building at 31 Rodney Street (L1 9EH), on Liverpool's historic medical street. Our city centre academy is at Ground Floor, Yorkshire House, 18 Chapel Street (L3 9AG), five minutes from both Moorfields and Lime Street stations.
Yes, constantly. Around 80% of MSTA students travel in from across the UK, from London to Scotland, and many make a week of it: training by day, enjoying the city by night. Liverpool Lime Street has direct trains from most major cities, and Liverpool John Lennon Airport is close by.
We recommend staying in the city centre, within walking distance of both academies. The team keeps a list of recommended places to stay, including partner hotels that offer discounted rates for MSTA students, so ask us before you book.
All of them. Every MSTA course is taught in Liverpool, from our flagship Aesthetic Skincare For Beginners pathway to VTCT qualifications spanning Levels 2 to 6, plus one and two-day executive courses for qualified professionals. Upcoming dates are listed on this page and on our course calendar.
We specialise in skin. If you're searching for beauty courses in Liverpool, MSTA is the specialist option: advanced facials, chemical peels, microneedling, dermaplaning and clinical skin knowledge, rather than nails, lashes or make-up. It's a deliberate focus, and it's why our graduates are known for results-led skin work.
No. Most MSTA students start as complete beginners. Our Aesthetic Skincare For Beginners pathway assumes zero knowledge and covers all the skin theory, anatomy and physiology that underpin safe, confident practice.
Our flagship beginner pathway, Aesthetic Skincare For Beginners, is £6,000 + VAT (£7,200 all-in), with a £500 deposit to secure your place. Shorter executive and CPD courses have their own pricing, listed alongside each date on the course calendar.
Our graduates work in clinics, salons and their own treatment rooms across the UK, delivering results-led skincare treatments. Practitioners typically charge £75 to £130 per treatment depending on where they are. You can meet real graduates and read their reviews further up this page.
No. MSTA trains Skincare Aestheticians, not injectors. We work at the intersection of skincare and aesthetics: advanced, results-led skin treatments that create natural, healthy results without needles or filler.
The brochure covers the full pathway: the qualifications, the treatments, what a training week in Liverpool looks like and how to plan your stay. Get it in your inbox in the next two minutes.
