Avalon School of Cosmetology: Layton

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Mike Dewey

If you are looking for somewhere to go to get your skin or hair done, go for it! We have really great instructors,students and estheticians and a lot of services for a decent price. We use professional products on you and get a blow dry and style with almost every hair service. PROS going to this school: They will help you prep for state boards, they use professional products,the atmosphere is very like a salon and we have some pretty awesome instructors CONS: .... If you are someone looking to go to school here, I would NOT.Also, if you are planning to work here..DO NOT. A lot of staff are great but the policies change like the weather and it feels like military school . It suppose to be a professional atmosphere but really this was worse than high school, I had more lee way there than here at Avalon. They say its preparing you for a salon but it comes of that were not even adults at all. I dont have kids but life gets in a way, I can only imagine for those who actually have a family trying to finish school and the school gives you ISS for not coming even though you try to explain whats going on. All theyre going to say is..."Sorry, thats the policy.." or you have a lot going on at home and the verge of getting kicked out of school ...but you cant prearrange because it is a privileged and you didnt have enough hours last week. So even though you really try to work out the hours theres still like a sinking feeling.." this damn school is setting me up for failure." The owners (Don and Brandon) does not know anything about hair and they really are just businessmen. Everything they do is NOT for the beneficial of staff and students, its for the money. Ive been here for more than a year and weve had a lot of turn of school directors, education directors,receptionists and instructors since I started. The owners are coming for a week and Ive never the seen the whole staff stress out about everything. Everyone is on the edge, its like that dreaded relative coming to visit and I know this week is just not going to be pleasant. The school sometimes encourages you to join outside competitions, but if you are broke (because you go to school full time, THATS YOUR JOB) and ask for their help sponsoring you, dont bother. If you need somewhere to do your hair for a competition, they still make you pay as if they are a regular customer. Even if you go outside school to take classes or events to help with your portfolio and education, they wont give you any credit for that. Also, if you value your family time, dont go here..because there is no room to take any days off, especially the holidays.

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Faith Pearson

*Edit: Im changing my review from a 1 star to 3 stars because since I posted this review, the office manager was kind and reached out to me in order to make amends, and to let me know she talked to the student and instructor.* I never ever review places, but I feel the need to warn people about going here. I wish I could give this place a zero stars, and here is my rant of why: So I went in just to get a trim (which ended up taking an hour and fifteen minutes), and to begin, the girls supervisor told her "since her hair is long, make sure you keep it organized while you wash it so it doesnt get tangled." So of course she doesnt do that and by the time we get back to the chair my hair is just a nightmare of tangles. Then this is the part that really gets me— instead of combing my hair from the bottom working up (which I feel is common sense) she proceeds to just rip my hair out from the top down. So not only is that horrible for your hair, but all it does is make it even more tangled, and then she proceeds to just rip out the tangles she just created. I mentioned to her she was doing that and she just kind of brushed it off and continued on! (And she isnt even a new girl, she said she was just about to graduate.) So a majority of my time here was just spent getting my hair ripped out. Im one of the most passive people, but I was about ready to get up and walk out. But I bore through it because I hoped shed at least be able to trim my hair. Not surprisingly I was wrong. After she trimmed my hair and went to sign me off with her supervisor, I stand up and my hair is completely uneven! (My husband said he could see how uneven it was from across the room.) So theyre trying to send me on my way, but I point this out to the supervisor. She was able to fix it, but instead of apologizing, she made a comment something along the lines of "girls with long hair just use it as a security blanket". I dont know, it just kind of irked me— did you really have to make that comment? Maybe it was my mistake going to a beauty school in the first place, but I thought they would at least be able to trim my hair. So anyways, maybe if you have short hair you could go here. But if you have long hair DO NOT go here unless you want your hair ripped out and an uneven cut that takes over an hour.

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M Adam

As a student who went here, I would like to say that when I first applied to go to school here I thought this school was amazing and that I would love and enjoy my experience going to school to be a cosmetologist. However, that quickly changed when I learned that they dont respect opinions of students and treat them disrespectfully and are rude to clients on the salon floor. Policies are constantly changing from day to day making it extremely unpredictable as to what you will be in trouble for, each staff member seems to be running off of a different policy and no one here is ever on the same page. Its an extremely unprofessional school, with broken salon chairs, floors, sinks, etc. we were constantly running out of color, shampoo, products etc.. When you are paying almost 20,000 dollars to go to school to be a professional I think its extremely unnecessary to punish a student for not being able to show up in case of emergency etc, by punishing them with an ISS (in school suspension) that would never happen in the real world and taking clients away from a student is not helping give us more experience to use in the real world. The instructors here dont like their jobs and you can clearly see it with they way that they treat students and clients, they dont care if you know what you are doing it not, they are unwilling to help you, or when you need help; ex; formulating color.. They just do it for you and dont explain how or why you would do it that way. They will take over haircuts for you and get frustrated when you get lost in what you are doing.. The owner of the school has no idea how to run a cosmetology school as he and his brother deal in the business aspect of it not the hair side which makes this school run poorly, in 2 years they have gone through countless school directors because they cant handle working for a company in which they are treated so poorly, its extremely sad to see how downhill this school has gone in the last 2 years there are hardly any new students coming to join and the clientele has dropped to an astonishingly low number. Youre better off going somewhere else for you services, and for your education. Save yourself the stress, and money and pick a school who will care about your professional career and you as a person.

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