An academy that trains hands, not just hands out certificates
Maison Belle was founded in 2009 by Serene Aw, a senior aesthetician who had spent more than a decade in Singapore spas and an aesthetics clinic and grew frustrated with quick-certificate courses that left graduates unable to do the actual work. She built the academy on a simple rule: you learn a hands-on craft by doing it, supervised, on real models and clients, until you can do it to a standard a paying employer accepts.
Today we teach across two campuses — a City Hall teaching theatre and treatment rooms, and a Novena studio for skincare and aesthetics practicals. Our courses are benchmarked to international and local awarding bodies, our cohorts are kept small, and our educators are people who have worked the trade and still keep a foot in it.
What has not changed is the candour. We will tell a prospective student honestly whether a course suits them, where the paid work really is, and where a therapist’s scope ends and regulated clinical work begins. That honesty is exactly why the salons, spas and clinics we work with keep hiring our graduates.
How we teach
Accredited, recognised courses
Our diplomas and certificates are benchmarked to international and local awarding bodies, so the qualification you earn means something to the salons, spas and clinics that hire.
Certified educators
Every tutor is a working or formerly-working professional who still keeps a foot in the industry, so what you learn reflects how a real treatment room and studio operate today.
Hours on real models
You spend most of your course working on live models and clients under supervision, not watching slides. Skill lives in the repetitions, and we give you plenty of them.
Bilingual teaching support
Where it helps, our tutors switch between English and Mandarin during practicals, so a language gap never slows a student down while picking up a hands-on technique.
Our educators
Serene Aw
Founder & Academy Principal
Serene spent fourteen years as a senior aesthetician and treatment-room trainer across Singapore spas and an aesthetics clinic before founding Maison Belle. She leads the beauty-therapy diploma personally and still consults so her teaching stays current.
Joanne Quek
Head of Education — Makeup & Bridal
Joanne built a busy bridal and editorial makeup career before moving into teaching. She is exacting about long-wear technique and on-set professionalism, and she runs the makeup diploma and bridal certificate.
Priya Menon
Lead Educator — Lashes, Nails & Brows
Priya ran her own lash-and-nail studio for years before joining the academy. She drills the unglamorous habits — isolation, retention, hygiene, soak-off without damage — that separate work that lasts from work that lifts.
Our campuses & accreditation
Maison Belle City Campus
1 Coleman Street, #05-12, The Adelphi, Singapore 179803
3 min walk from City Hall MRT · main teaching theatre, treatment rooms & student lounge
Maison Belle Novena Studio
101 Irrawaddy Road, #07-14, Royal Square Medical Suites, Singapore 329565
5 min from Novena MRT · skincare, facial & aesthetics practical rooms
Come and see a campus
Book a visit, ask about an intake, or just have an honest chat about whether a course is right for you.