Salon Success Academy

Recently graduated from this school and sadly I would not recommend this campus to anyone. I can’t speak for the cosmetology program but their esthetician program is currently a joke. I was fortunate enough to start with an amazing teacher who got us super prepared for stateboard. On my last week with salon success my teacher had to leave for personal reasons so we went through a lot of changes. They brought in a cosmetologist to run the esthetician program. This lady doesn’t know a damn thing. I was a student ambassador and trying to work with her on how things were ran and what the other girls are comfortable with, she pretty much pushed me to the side and told the other students not to listen to me. She doesn’t have them watch the stateboard video (which is very helpful) because she finds it boring. She doesn’t practice stateboard with them at all. Why? Cause she’s NOT an esthetician. She doesn’t know whats on an estheticians stateboard. And then you have the head esthetics guy from the upland campus coming in performing demos, and showing the girls bad habits when it comes to stateboard, and he talks badly about the previous teacher. So unprofessional. I usually don’t write reviews but I still have friends in that class. I feel so bad for those girls, and recently found out that some dropped out and took their education else where. I think everyone should cause it’s YOUR money and YOUR future.

Got my hair, makeup, and toes done for prom ! Everyone’ knows what they are doing, made me look like a princess! Everyone’s very friendly. Only 4 stars be cause they did my pedicure in a bucket and that was sort of weird also prices reasonable!

They honestly don’t even deserve the one star, I have been in the saloon to get my hair done it’s very unorganized starting with the woman at the counter all the staff including the teachers walk around like who am I and what am I doing here the students seem very enthusiastic about what they are there for but it seems like the staff and teachers are hindering them to learn and move forward. I don’t think not one of the staff members understands what a saloon should be ran like they have a lot to learn poor students will have to figure things out for themselves .i would not recommend this school for new students.

I am a graduate of the Corona, campus. Sadly a lot of what the other reviews stated is true, but I did learn from my school.
Now there were a lot of changes that happened in the time I attended. We moved to a new location which was tremendously better then the last one. We went through teachers like it was cool. Every time I turned around I felt like I had to learn a new teaching style, which was frustrating but it did teach me more than what just one teacher could provide. As for drama of other students and theft, I was not a victim of it, but it did happen around me. Well that, and some students first reaction was to assume something was stolen not mis placed. Our kits were not as good as the kits they are now offering, which is a god improvement. I am very grateful they put to rest the hideous ill fitting brown and blue shirts and moved forward with the black wella/​vidal sasson/​salon success shirts. The black on black uniform looks better than the sloppy way some students would dress before the change. Although the shirts looked better one uniform change still baffles me, no boots. It really isn’t that big of a deal, but it was strange. Another change that happened was the schedule change. They no longer offered part time, which is good and bad. They fixed the problem that arisen with no off clock breaks and worked it into the new schedule. Now the biggest problem I ran into with salon success was the constant change in leadership. You could never really get close with teachers because they were recycled so often. The owners brought in a new head Charlie which brought some good changes, but made going to school hectic.
Out of everything that is wrong with salon success is that they do have a serious problem learning how to address the students. They ‘attack’ the students when they change things. They treat a lot of the students as children and not as adults. They treat their students as idiots when trying to ‘explain’ things. When more often than not, they do not understand what question/​problem is being brought to their attention. This is not the teachers, this is the staff. This is a small family business, thus these problems are rampet in family owned business.
business, I loved a lot of my teachers, and without them I probably would have transferred to a different school. I do feel confident to pass state board and I did enjoy my time there more than I hated it. Unfortunately the problems that salon success has isn’t going to change, that is just the way they do business As one of the few certified schools in so-​cal, you wont find much better. Just remember, its your education, your responsibility to learn the material and your responsibility to make it the best you can. AND ITS ONLY 1 YEAR, push through it and gain the knowledge to start a wonderful career. Good luck, hope this helps.