Marinello Schools of Beauty

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I went here for esti school after switching for Newberry in Granada hills. I will say the staff here are very caring and want to see you further your beauty career. I loved my teacher and because of her I’m licensed and doing what I love today thanks so much for accepting me at 500 hours !!!

As a former student, looking back makes me cringe. Generally speaking, the teachers were great (all but one). Most clients were nice, but some were mean and/​or crazy (and we all got a few of those). In one instance, the director sided with the crazy client, even though the students are providing the director’s paycheck. I’ve always believed your loyalties belong to the person signing your paycheck. I guess the director doesnt see it that way. I felt a sense of betrayl and was disappointed in her behavior. Providing a supportive atmosphere would have been a positive move. Instead, I couldn’t wait to get out of there in one piece. My personal experience with this school was not good, and my experience with most clients was great.

Students, Instructors, and Customers: Beware
Every person walking through the doors of an institution that promises an education, expects an education — #DemandYourEducation. Instructors and resources are needed to succeed. Unfortunately, Marinello Schools, like many other Beauty Colleges’ Business «plan» is a plan to starve Students and Instructors alike from getting and giving education.
When students are strategically denied instructors, they are left to compete for attention. While Instructors are deliberately «undertrained, overworked, and overwhelmed» they do their best to make their own life and workload easier by giving the attention to those students that they most EASILY relate too, leaving students divided, disenfranchised, and resenting each other. And, the strategical division systematically takes place.
Chaos is part of the «Corportate» Business Plan to Profit from students’ Financial Aid. In general #4Profit Beauty Colleges starve students from the education we pay for. #Corporate4Profit Beauty Colleges, strategically do not «EVER» provide, NOR will they EVER provide enough instructors, support, resources, or products. They open their schools with a deficit and continue. The deficit is the «gold mined» to maximize profits.
When it comes to #Corporate4Profit schools, there does not seem to be laws or regulations against the deprivation of education. #4Profit Students appear to have NO RIGHTS and Family Medical Leave does not apply to Students .
Students, lets come together with Teachers and Customers for Better Education, Better Pay and One strong #StudentUnion for #BeautyColleges everywhere.
Lets #StrikeDebt together.

Contacted the school to get information on a manicuring class. Recieved an email from Andrea telling me shes confirming my appointment for 1:00 without actually talking to me. I let her know i work during the day and just wanted some information about the class i was asking for. Never head back from her. I then called the school and was told they dont offer this type of class right now but would take my name and number and call me if they get enough people to sign up they would bring it back. The lady then proceeded to rush me off the phone and not even take my info. I wont be signing up any time soon

Evening freshman instructor

Marinello it such a perfect beauty college, every one all of the teachers are Perfect especially Mis Verjik, they teach us really good and they fallow us to fined the job, I want to say big thank you. Ellin Kivakyoud

I want to start by saying that this school doesn’t deserve even one. yesterday, I dropped out of school a month later, the nightmare!!!
the Director of this school number one skilled cheat one day I caught her in a lie three times!!!
in this school there are people have served time in prison and there the gangster disassemblies insulting others in that the Director of this school is absolutely blind eye!!!
number one rule in cosmetology is sterility. What happened in my situation on my workplace put dirty broom that abused me when I went once again to the Director of it was not in the workplace.
It all lasted every day throughout the month I would come home and my hands were shaking from the stress in the place of that spending time with my seven month old son I cried!!! AfterI dropped this school i got bill for $ 4500 for one month when I came to school they didn’t allow me to come inside and check what’s going on… So before you’ll go to this school THINK TWISE. They’re carrying ONLY ABOUT THE MONEY!!! They’re see only dollars in your eyes!!! I have never seen such an disorganized and without responsible as Director of this school!

I’m leaving this review in the middle for a reason; one I’m reviewing the services and two I’m a former student reviewing the school as well. As for the services here love them! To the general public keep in mind that these are people in the middle of their training so it’s important to make sure that whatever you’re looking out for specifically you talk to the receptionist and make sure you get a student has strengths in those areas. I get my hair cut colored here and have no problems. I have also gotten facials from my peers, make up done, and waxing services. I highly recommend the facials! Excellent product and protocol at a highly discounted rate. So truly for the services I give it ⁴⁄₅.
Now for the school part… I will say that the instructor that I had was what made the experience was excellent as it was. My teacher for the esthetic program is incredibly knowledgeable in her field and truly cares about preparing each student to have success not only with the state board exam but with whatever their endeavors are after they graduate.
The honest ugly truth about the school, while I was there (keep in mind it’s a 7 month period) the financial aid rep changed at least once maybe twice and the registrar changed three times. The lack of professionalism and organization in the school is highly disturbing to me. I had problems with financial aid who said that I owed the more money than I really did because they were supposed to give me a refund check and I never received it. When I explain that to them they accused me of having gone and cashed it at the bank and said that they were going to call and verify with the bank as if I were trying to commit fraud. In reality the check had been sitting in a drawer in the financial aid office for three months. I understand that mistakes are made and that papers don’t always get to the people that they’re supposed to but what bothered me was their attitude toward me as if I were lying about receiving the check when I’ve never heard about it in the first place. And then the fact that I got a check in the first place team incorrect to me because when I initially signed up for financial aid I was told that you could get a refund check and I personally signed documents opting to have whatever leftover money there was put towards my tuition. My other issue with them and this one is perhaps greater than the financial aid one because that was very simply worked out is that due to the constant changing registrar (which the first one left because she was on maternity leave so to me the school had plenty of time to know and find an adequate replacement for her it’s not like it was some big surprise that she left). To make a long very annoying story short I was not applied for my state board on time. You’re supposed to be applied for my program between 450 and 460 hours and nobody came to fill out the paperwork with me… I actually went to them when I realized on my attendance sheet that my hours were over that point at which point they told me that they couldn’t do anything except apply me post graduation. This put out my test date much further than the other girls that graduate around the same time as me and it’s very frustrating to me because I cannot legally work until I am licensed so now I have to wait longer to be able to work and support my family because of the schools error. they tried to smooth it over and they say oh yes there were errors but we fix them. In my opinion it’s things that shouldn’t of happened in the first place and I don’t really feel like I had a resolution that made the situation satisfactory to me. Because the fact is I have to wait much longer to take my exams so I’m not going to be happy with the school just because they finally applied me when they did it 150 hours later than they should have.
Paperwork errors aside I would recommend the school to other students looking to be in the beauty industry simply because of the wonderful instructors there. My advice just stay on top of your hours, your attendance and stay very aware because sometimes you have to remind the staff there to do their own jobs!

This is review is in regards to the school and enrollment: Cosmo students think again before coming here
They are highly unorganized! went through three financial aid reps! (should tell you something right there).
Admissions is not truthful, be very careful here they are a for profit school so as you can imagine their practices are not on the up and up. when brought to there attention swept under the rug.
If you are looking for roaches you found them!
if you are looking for a school that has little to no supplies you found it.
If you are looking for a school who does not care to see you actually succeed you found it.
now on the other hand if you enjoy being lied to on several occasions then you have found the right place!
Be warned they are very shady, the director has no clue on what any of her employees are doing and there attitude is even worse then there lack professionalism.

Been in the program for two weeks. So far I love it. The teachers are great and and so is the office staff. Loreta helped me out when enrolling into the school and she was really nice and helpful. So was financial aid office.

I am a new student at Marinello. I love it here. I came in to enroll and i met Loretta. She was just Amazing. Loretta walked me through the entire enrollment process. She was very thoural. Now i am already in my 2^nd week here and it gets better every day. Loretta truly cares about the students and she wants you to be successful. I recommend everyone who has the passion for cosmetology to come to Marinello in Burbank.

Im currently a student at Marinello in Burbank and i have to say that Miss. Ashley in the day time and Miss. Bridget in the evening. They are the best teacher’s in the entire school. They know what there doing. They know how to teach while helping us students at the same time. They both speak perfect English, friendly, always lets the clients know whats going on or if us students need help, they always come to the rescue. I urge anyone and everyone who reads this. If you have any problems or questions talk to these two beautiful intelligent ladies. I know they have you going home happy.

I attended Marinello and my first couple of months was honestly the best months because I was in Mrs. Castillos class and she honestly taught me everything I know to this day … She’s really patient and if you don’t understand something she’ll explain it for you until you get it … She makes it fun but at the same time gets the job done and is very serious when she’s doing her demos in class she makes sure she goes over everything and she’s super clean… She was honestly the best teacher I’ve had n

I am a student here and I absolutely love it. The energy at the school is great. We are taught by the best! From the admissions to the director to the teachers there is outstanding professionalism. Our teacher is great! I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else!

This has to be the worst beauty school on the planet earth.
I would urg you not to waste your time or money to attend this school and not get the education you need to pass state board.
My friends graduated from their schools and are some much more knowledgeable that I am from attending marinello.
I wish I would have read all of these bad reviews before attending. Unfortunately, I did not.

please do not attend marinello schools of beauty in burbank ca, the stuff are rude to students, treat students like slaves! it all about money to them, students have no value what so ever! do not attend there and never look back to marinello schools of beauty please, there is so much fight going on and stuff don’t do anything about it !!! worst school ever!!!

Unfortunately I was one of the many who fell for their scam and attended this school. I didn’t learn a thing in the 15 months I was here. I was one of the few hispanics in this school. All the teachers are racist, ignorants, rude and full of it! A year later Now I’m stuck with a $ 30,000 loan and no license! I wasted my time and money here. I had many bad experiences in this school and fell in deep depression while I was attending so i would miss alot so now im stuck paying on top of my tuition $ 10,000 more just on absences. Every time I asked for help I was ignored and no attention was given. They are money hungry and don’t give squash about teaching, the students, or the clients! I made a huge mistake making the decision of choosing this school if I could go back in time I would of attended Paul Mitchell instead which is more professional and cheaper too. This changed my life completely in a bad way I thought I would end up with a good paying job and knowledge instead now I’m just living and working to pay for this big mistake, I’m in tears of sadness and anger as I’m writing this but that was my mistake I just hope my review helps out the many girls in the future who are planning to attend this school! I hope they read this and do research before they join! Simply ask any student around the school and trust me they will be surprised to see how many girls regret attending this money hungry careless school but of course I’m ONLY speaking for the Burbank campus in which I attended a whole tormenting year and a half! So please girls ask around and do your research before you decide this is the best choice for you!

Absolutely THE worst. I looked to this Marinello campus for help with a special case with my Esthetician license. My first, only, and last experience with this school was with Loretta S. in Admissions. She was unapologetically rude towards me, uncompassionate and seemingly annoyed with my needs, and even at one point, accused me of asking her to lie on my application. What?! In fact, at one moment during our meeting, I point blanked asked her, seeing as how it looked like I wasn’t going to get any help from her, «What do you say to potential students who come to you with my kind of situation?». To which she so eloquently retorted, «We just tell them ‘Bye!’ and they find somewhere else to go.» Absolutely unacceptable. As someone who has extensive experience in customer service, everyone knows that every business has what they call «gate keepers»; employees who are the first impressions of any establishment. They can either wow you or leave a bad taste in your mouth. As far as the school is concerned, Admissions is one of your first stops. It’s a shame that something so unnecessary and avoidable has forced me to take my time and hard earned money to another school with a better reputation and more respect for their potential students.

I’m a current student in the Esthetician program and I have had a terrible experience here. I’m only still here because it’s the only night class in the area. They charge you an arm and a leg for you to teach yourself. The facility is «okay» but very unclean. The management is unorganized and clueless. It’s been a very disappointing experience. I would not recommend anyone to attend school here. There are plenty of better schools for a much lower price and you’ll actually leave with an education. From what comes out of my pocket and what I’ve been given here, I’m really not sure where our money goes or why it’s so expensive. They don’t even give you a graduation ceremony either. Basically, don’t go there for education bc you won’t learn anything.