Boca Beauty Academy

Overall I had a good experience at Boca Beauty Academy. My instructor, Ms. Syms was excellent. She was extremely knowledgable and helpful in preparing me for my state boards in the paramedical esthetics program. I enjoyed doing hands clinicals in my electrology class. I also received a lot of help from the registrar, Ms. Paula. I would recommend this school to anyone seeking a career in the beauty industry.

I recently started taking The paramedical Esthetician classes at BBA. So far, I absolutely love it! Ms. Beth Is an amazing teacher. She has so much experience in the field so not only can she teach me but can tell us about personal experiences so we know what to expect once we start. I would definitely recommend this class! 5 stars

I went in last night for a haircut and gloss. This was my first time here. The receptionist was rude and asked me to pay up front for my services. I have never been asked to pay first at any other salon. But I did as I was asked to do. The receptionist said, it is a first come first serve situation. I signed in as client number two. At the time, there were four women waiting together. The woman who signed in first and the other two women who signed in third and fourth, were taken back. I was left waiting for thirty minutes and no service. I asked the manager on duty, what’s going on? She said, someone would be with me. Never happened. I asked for my money back and was never seen. My advice to this place is to treat all clients with respect and good customer service. Yesterday, you failed miserably.

I took the Permanent Makeup course in October 2015 and I must say I was highly disappointed. The course is promoted as a 50 hour course however you barely scratch 35 hours total. This includes practice and technique. They do not train the students in the latest technique which is micro blading. After completion of the course I expected to get my «diploma» rather quickly but have yet to even hear back from the school with regards to this and it has been three months. Their excuse is that my high school diploma was not received. So why did I sign a release to have Boca Beauty request this on my behalf? Management is poorly structured as the ball is passed from one desk to the next with no response.
I regret spending the $ 3600. The «kit» that is given to the student is by far the most inept thing of the course. For the price of tuition they could have spent a few extra $$ and supplied us with good pigments and tools. I purchased my own micro blading tools and quality pigments.
Given that in Florida you are only required to take the 3 hour blood borne pathogen course online to get your tattoo license I highly recommend teaching yourself on YouTube. The BBP course is about $ 50 and supplies and tools will cost you about $ 400-​$ 500. I wish I had known better before since didn’t even take out a loan and used my own money for the course. Lesson learned.

My wife enrolled to Boca Beauty earlier this year. Due to unforeseen circumstances she had to leave the school before completing the program. Although Boca Beauty had a very strict cancellation policy they were very understanding and removed the fees due to my wife’s circumstances.
It’s not every day you come across a company willing to do this. The management at Boca Beauty are class acts and I would not hesitate to recommend anyone to this school. They get a A++ in my book.

I just graduated from Boca Beauty Academy in October. My first walk through with admissions — I will name him «D» was so nice! The staff seemed great and excited to teach! The school was updated and clean. They sold me! I signed my contract and began the esthetic program 3 weeks later.
My first month there went well. I was learning the fundamentals of skin care and felt confident in my teacher Miss Laurel. That was just the first month. We often never had the supplies we needed to work on the outside clients that came into BBA. Whether it was facial products, wax, waxing sticks, waxing strips… We were always out of something. How did they expect us to learn without the correct tools? My teacher Miss Laurel would often have to go out and buy the supplies needed for the class but she made it work with the very little communication and support from the rest of the staff. Paying $ 5,500 I shouldn’t be worried that my school doesn’t have materials needed. I didn’t feel comfortable doing my work! We often had to improvise and that is NOT what you do in a school or professional setting — especially when working on a paying customer. We had facial steamers that were broken, facial beds that were broken etc. Unfortunately the 3 months that I was there they were never fixed.
After my first month my instructor was fired. The only confidence I had in BBA was just completely shot. My class and I came into a new instructor that was ecstatic to teach us Chinese medicine and massage techniques. Wait what? I was no longer learning from the book provided by BBA. The new teacher wanted to teach us all of the tricks she knew. This course was the fundamentals of my career and now I felt shorted. When we asked the VP she said it was better for BBA. Of course it was better for BBA but not there students. Halfway through my course I had a new teacher teaching Chinese medicine… Chinese medicine has nothing to do with esthetics. The massage techniques are useless because I am not a massage therapist. This teacher was just all over the place. There was no order after my formal teacher left. And on top of that we ran out of supplies EVERY DAY because no one was running to Cosmoprof to get our desperately needed materials.
The class sized promised was 8 – 12 students. That quickly changed from 8 to 25. Now the classroom was over crowded. Seriously, what is next! I truly felt that they exaggerated there program just to get me in the door. The admissions people are sales people… They are not educated in the Beauty field. Again. Sales. People. Miss Lettie is a nice woman and I would always stress my concerns to her. Her response was they they were working on it, or she would reassure me that our supplies were on the way. As a school you would think they would have an endless supply of materials to learn the curriculum. Wrong. (The only way you learn is by DOING)
Last but not least my last two weeks there I was just dying to put in my hours and get out of this awful school!!! I often came in on Saturdays just to expedite the graduation process. I came in on a Saturday and the sink in our treatment room was not working. So no running water. It was the weekend and they were aware of the problem. I come back Monday — still no water, Tuesday– still no water. Wait? Seriously. This is a running school with a classroom overfilled with students and there is no water. But yet, the front desk was still calling us to work on clients and to do services. How am I going to do a facial with no water??? This was the LAST straw. I was so angry. I went into the office of Miss Lettie and VP (Miss Roxanne) and told them we cannot take clients with no running water. I asked them WHY it was taking 4+ days for running water!!! There is no excuse for this. This is my education. They said they were trying to find someone to fix it. We all no that is a bunch of BS. There are ²⁴⁄₇ plumbers everywhere! Excuse after excuse. Miss Roxanne thought I was disrespectful because I was constantly unhappy with the program. We had a discussion in her office and she literally told me that I was «expecting so much.» That was laughable!
FINALLY!!! The day had come where I could finally leave BOCA BEAUTY ACADEMY for good! I was really interested in electrolysis but so, so, grateful I didn’t put all my eggs into one basket and waited. Thank god! I finished my exit interview which was just Nicole handing me my diploma and a survey to fill out about my experience — in front of her. I felt uncomfortable being honest on the survey because she was staring at my paper. It was almost intimidating. Plus at this point I’m pretty sure they knew how I felt about my education at BBA. I knew that survey would not get out to the public. Unilocal can be a wonderful tool.
That was my honest experience there. I would not recommend this school to my worst enemy. I am only writing this now bec. I have my FL esthetic license and have ZERO affiliation to BBA any longer. I hope this helps!

Save your money and time and don’t bother going here. They’ll lie to you and steal your money with promises of refunds which you’ll never see again. STAY AWAY FROM THESE CON ARTISTS!

I paid 10,000 for my daughter to go t to this school worse decision ever!!! The school is horrendous they over charged my GI bill then also charged my credit card. They were rude and non helpful to my daughter. No job placement as promised. My daughter is still waiting on her certificates. They r suppose to supply the students with all the supplies from mac wich you pay for as a student she received the bare necessities not $ 350 worth. They do but give these students the necessary supplies to work on the customers. They are also suppose promise in the contract resume writing for the graduates, they don’t. This was a horrible experience all the way around. My daughter actually came home crying one day as she was trying to deal with the representatives of the school. And FYI they never return phone calls. DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL FOR ANYTHING EDUCATION SERVICES NOTHING

Did you see the episode of «Friends» when Monica gave Phoebe the massage: Phoebe: «Oh! Get off! Ow! Oh, stop it! Why? Why are you doing that to me?» That’s how my massage went.
Knowing this is a beauty school… Didn’t expect much out of my student massage– and am glad for it! I went there looking forward to a relaxing massage and left wishing I’d never stepped in the door. The massage was so bad that I pointed out to the gal that time was up.
The teacher kept coming over and showing the gal better ways to massage, but didn’t correct the student when she continued with her terrible, painful method.
In all– I’ve learned that if you NEED a massage, go to a licensed masseuse; if you want a cheap massage, consider a school.

I wish I could give this place ZERO Stars! It was HORRIBLE! I have been to several Palm Beach County beauty schools for salon services and never in my life have I had such a negative experience. For starters, the place was unorganized. We waited at the front desk for 10 minutes before the receptionist even said a word to us. I asked for a simple single process color and cut. My hair is shoulder length. It took over 3 hours and would have taken longer if the teacher didn’t step in and finish my hair. My student stylist’s hands were shaking while she was trying to cut my hair. I’m sorry but this doesn’t put your client at ease! She even said she was sorry and I told her it was ok and was polite. But after 3 hrs I was loosing patience. I asked how long it would take because I had somewhere to be. So I finally finished and needed a refund for my brows because I just didn’t have time. I noticed the student got hair dye on my shirt. The rude receptionist told me «Well that’s why you don’t wear nice clothes to a beauty school… it is a school.» So unbelievably uncalled for! A simple sorry would have made me feel better. Then she proceeds to yell at me and tell me she should have kicked me out for being rude to the student. I was never rude. This place is so unprofessional. Also, this place is dirty… they sure don’t clean much. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER go here unless you want your hair to be cut uneven, get yelled at by the pregnant hormonal receptionist, and spend your day sitting uncomfortably in a chair for hours! I am in shock at how bad this place was…

I headed to Boca Beauty Academy for a deep tissue massage, mini-​facial, manicure and pedicure. All in all, it was ok service for a super cheap price. I’ll break it down:
Massage– My masseuse was quiet, calming and professional; everything I’m looking for when I want to relax. She made sure to ask how the pressure was and if I preferred oil or lotion. Soft music was playing in the background and I completely forgot I was at a training academy! So A+ for getting a spa quality massage. *You must bring your own sheets (2) and a pillowcase for the massage, or it’s an extra $ 5*
Mini Facial– Again, the woman who did my facial was very friendly and professional. I have only had a handful of facials before so this didn’t seem fabulous to me (kind of just put cold cream on, wipe it off, put more cream on, wipe it off, etc.) but she did put cooling pads on my eyes which was nice and a hot towel to open up my pores. Everyone was right next to each other so it was a bit comical to see everyone laying there but the table was comfortable and my skin felt nice when it was finished.
Manicure/​Pedicure– This was by far the worst part of my experience. I had high hopes when I went in since the massage and facial had been great. The girl doing my mani/​pedi literally grumbled at me the entire time and yelled «gimme the other foot!» each time she wanted me to switch. You soak your feet in a bucket lined with a garbage bag so compared to the other services, this felt a little strange to me. Environment and attitude aside, my nails turned out horrendous. Uneven shaping, jagged pieces and worst of all, super sloppy polish application! She didn’t even wipe off the brush each time she did a nail so huge globs of polish spread all over my nail and finger. She attempted to use polish remover afterwards to clean it up but since it was a dark red I walked out looking like a 4 year old who got into their Mom’s polish collection. I can do a better job myself.
The end result is that I will definitely be back for another massage and might even consider their hair styling. I would never recommend anyone to get their nails done there, as the other women I saw also walked out with very messy looking nails.