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| - This was my first time at the beauty academy and overall had a good experience and also found the staff to be very nice and friendly (they even greet you with a cup of coffee or tea!). I got a colour, partial baylage highlights and cuts.
For the colour and highlights ($80), I was very happy with the results given then price and the instructor did a very good job checking the work and it was done in reasonable time (~ 2.5 hours). I ended up with dark brown chocolate colour with caramel highlights and the instructor did a great job of coaching the student on picking the right colour, pulling all the colour through the ends and doing a last check on the colour.
For the hair cut, this was so so ($27). The student seemed very new and did very little cutting - they seemed actually a bit stuck in terms of how to cut hair and spent most of the time brushing and combing through my hair and just looking a bit stuck. The instructor did come over when called, and stepped in to do some additional layering (I asked for a simple shoulder length layered cut). However, the student didn't appear to know how to do a blow out at all (it was quite obvious that the hair was not blown out properly) and didn't do any more cutting after that including checking the cut. The instructor didn't check the cut but by that time I had been at the salon for about 3 hours and was ready to head home! I'm sure if I had pushed the issue, the instructor would have come over to fix the cut.
Overall, I would definitely recommend for colour and I think depending on the student and the level you get, the cut could also be quite good (and the instructors, when called, are very open to stepping in and fixing things up!)
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