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All my experiences have been fantastic.. the students have recently learned how to use these techniques and are usually focused on getting it right or at least trying not to **** off the instructor. After three years of spending a fortune on my hair and salons.. which was a waste since I never liked the styles. I decided to give a tech school a shot and have never looked back.
People who have been cutting for years tend to get bored, and are more focused on getting the job done so they can gossip or just go home. I've had such bad expierences in high priced salons though that if there wasnt a local school I would just have a friend do my hair. Like when I saved and saved to get my hair done for prom, told the woman that I wanted a relaxed style since I'd be dancing all night and was going to downtown Orlando after to see a metal show and would prefer to have a nice hairdo but nothing promy.. yep I ended up with a curled updo that looked like it came straight out of Toddlers and Tiaras.. it took six hours, have a bottle of conditioner and some coconut oil to get that mess untangled. And the last time I had a costly cut, it ended up crooked and my "short layers" looked like bangs going all the way around my head , like a bowl cut on top of my hair.. Im not one to complain but really! And the manager just looked at me like I was crazy for the complaint. It was so obvious to everyone else though, work was a living nightmare until I had it corrected.. but Im a bartender and customers remember these things... forever!
You may be taking a slight risk, but if the student you get seems incapable of completing a thought just let the instructor know you arent comfortable with that student because they look like a stoner or you think they are the relative of a really bitter ex.
I've had my hair done at beauty schools a handful of times. When I was in my early teens, my mom took my sister and I to one regularly, but I had terribly difficult hair and it was completely out of sync with the fashion at the time, so getting a bad haircut wouldn't have been noticeable to me since I felt my hair looked crap 24/7 anyway.
Since becoming an adult, I've gone to a school a handful of times with mixed results. I had the phone number for the Vidal Sassoon Salon trainees for awhile, but they were limited to certain cuts that they had to pass and if my hairstyle wasn't the cut they needed to do, I couldn't get an appointment. Then I went to a Graham Webb school and got a cut that was technically good but wasn't what I wanted at all, and the stylist scared me by constantly swinging her scissors around on her pinky up into her hand right beside my face. I was flinch city for an hour.
I've had great cuts and I've had bad cuts. Usually the bad cuts are performed by the most inexperienced students who are scared and afraid of making mistakes, so they take forever (the last one took 2 hours +) and still have to be corrected by the instructor. If I were to go back, I'd ask specifically for an experienced student.
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