Aveda Academy Salon has that professional gloss that most high end salons do. A fancy interior, the robe thing you wear, that certain snooty air that means that you're paying through the nose for an excellent hair cut. It was for this reason that I decided to get my tresses chopped here when I was experiencing student-cashflow-syndrome and decided to cheap out on my hair cut.
The cuts are reasonably priced - they start at $30 and increase from there. Colour is also quite inexpensive. They sell the full line of Aveda products too. I seriously thought I was getting a deal! I was never going to get my hair cut at my old favourite again.
My cut was meh at first. It was not until much later I was made aware of what had been done to me. My hair had been chopped so that one side was much longer than the other. This was not a deliberately fashionable cut, this was a mangling of my hair. And when she styled it I looked like a lollipop.
Save your money and go to someone who's had experience, or go to a 10 dollar place to get a cut of the same value. Seriously.