Oliver Finley Academy of Cosmetology

Poor first impression if you want people to spend money at your school maybe think about training enrollment staff in manners and phone skills. .Alaina was rude and snotty by her representation of your college I see why this school is so poorly rated.

I get it, they’re students, they’re not perfect, but there’s a difference between an apprentice and someone who has never touched hair before, and my fiancée got the latter when she went.
It seems like a simple request: bleach out some black hair and add in green. It’s done every day in salons across the country. But it was not so easy.
Her stylist, Sky, was not at all confident in the procedure at all, and I started to question if she’d ever done any kind of hair at all before, much less doing color. She had no idea how to start, or how to even run the sinks to rinse her hair. She paused frequently on the bleaching, didn’t do a proper concentrate of bleach, had to re-​do it multiple times, and didn’t apply it evenly, resulting in a very blotchy, uneven, washed-​out hodge podge of color.
To make matters worse, the stylist also applied the black color at the same time as the bleaching, resulting in black-​on-​bleach, making for more blotches of dark brown. The stylist then left us there for an hour while she wandered around, talking to the other students and hanging around the instructor’s desk. Seeing that the bleach and color sets within 20 minutes, I found this unusual. She brought a second student to help her rinse, got my fiancée’s dress soaked in the process, missed a good portion of color in the hair, requiring a second rinse, and left bleach on my fiancée’s ear and still in the hair.
So I’m looking at this monstrosity that can only be created by one of two things, either a complete and utter disregard for any attempt at even trying to do a good job, or a complete and utter lack of knowledge of anything related to hair. I call over an instructor to see if her more experienced hands can salvage this astoundingly terrible job, and the instructor tries to tell us that adding the color will «fix it». No, you can’t «fix» blotchy brown and yellow with varying degrees of green, especially when that was never what was asked for in the first place.
Attempting to be tactful, we cut our losses and leave, paying $ 28 for what we should have been paid for, and go to the parking lot to see if a good salon can possibly fix this. In the process, we find that the student has completely disregarded my fiancée’s hair part and missed the roots of her hair in every section, in some areas up to two inches! of fresh growth hair are showing. The student even smeared some color into my fiancée’s cheek.
What a disaster. If this were an MMO, the student would have earned the title «the Mutilator», and that’s putting what she did to my fiancée’s hair lightly. We have wasted an entire Saturday afternoon and will have to spend more time going to a real salon and getting this fixed, if it even can be.
Holy shit.

My review is for the pedicure services given by supervised students. (I haven’t been a cosmetology student, so I am not qualified to review the school itself.)
I have been coming to OFAC for several years, even back when they were located elsewhere. The pricing for the services is out of this world! For example, a pedicure here costs only $ 18. Leg massage, soak, scrub, lotion, polish, trim, cuticles… the whole 9 yards. At the salon I used to go to, it costs $ 60. I would rather have three of these any day! (I haven’t been back to my former salon since I heard about OFAC.)
The students do a VERY good job. After each service, they have to show their work to an instructor and then the instructor asks how you like the result. If anything’s not 100% right, it gets fixed for you immediately. They have all kinds of services… waxes, facials, hair, color, etc. They also sell product.
If you’re going for any of the nail services, I would highly recommend that you bring a polish that you like because they don’t always have tons of choices. I also bring my own flip-​flops for after the pedicures because their temporary ones don’t fit my large feet.
I know things are already a ridiculous bargain here, but you’ll want to be on their Facebook page and their e-​mail list. Trust me. They have even more savings on those.