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    Avalon Institute

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    your student station will be filthy

    AVOID THIS SCHOOL AT ANY COST for ESTHETICIAN! This school is a scam. Here is why: They will sell you $2000 nonrefundable toolkit that you can literally buy it on your own half the price. They gave me a laptop that takes 100 minute to load a screen and charged me over 300$, YOU DO NOT NEED IT!!! JUST BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP. All other tools are almost half the price on Amazon and other websites. ALSO, THEY WILL MAKE YOU DO A JANITORIAL CLEANING DUTIES! in the name of esthetician required cleaning hours. Technically you are paying this school to learn how to wash microwave and clean men's restroom floor and trash. Absolutely gross!!!! if you refuse they will retaliate!!!!! ONLINE COURSE IS A MESS! You will be in class in hair students on some days, very unorganized and all over the place. IF YOU WANT TO WASTE YOUR MONEY GO AHEAD AND ENROLL!!! THERE ARE BETTER SCHOOLS WHO TREAT THEIR STUDENTS WITH RESPECT AND CARE.

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    Timi did an amazing job on my hair! It was long, frizzy, and I needed a change. She gave me a gloss treatment and a beautiful hair cut. She was attentive, and very considerate through the whole process. Everywhere I go friends and relatives compliment my hair. I look forward to seeing her professional development in this field.

    Guadalupe took my hair from faded to vibrant again!

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    Second visit with April and beyond happy with her work! Super talented. She's detail oriented and very talented!

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    Don't come here. They miss up on student hours. They miss up on you grades. And they take forever to do anything about it.

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    Brianna jo dis amazing on my red hair she was very pleasant to work with and I could not recommend a better stylist

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    I have been going to Avalon back when it was Xenon and 15 years before that for color and I have NEVER been disappointed.

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    Xenon International School of Hair Design

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    I was scheduled for a facial with extractions and a sugar body today 28 September 2017 at 5:30PM…read more I was there at 5:30PM and the student I was assigned to (Nanette) finally came to get me at about 5:43PM. I walked to a room with her and when I realized that it was not the correct room with the shower to rinse of the sugar scrub, I mentioned it to her. Nanette told me to go back out to the waiting area so she could prepare the other room for the sugar body scrub treatment. So about 6pm, she gets me and tells me that she is going to use the same room for the facial first. I informed her that the priority for me is the extraction, to get the pores cleaned out. Nanette starts telling me that she does not want to do "extractions" - she wants to do "eye lash extensions" and she tells me she is going to get another student who likes to do extractions.... about 8 minutes later (there is a clock right next to the door in the treatment room) she comes back and says the other student is busy with another client. I asked her if she is going to use the steamer to open the pores - Nanette says something like "steamers are outdated" and puts a small towel over my face.... she asked me if I used the "pore strips" before and I told her that the pores are not going to automatically become clean by placing pore strips on the nose/face. So after about two minutes she removes the towel and again leaves the room for about five minutes - after she returned, for about two minutes she does extractions on my nose. I told her that I normally go to Pickens Technical College, but the new students are not on the floor yet so I came to Xenon for the extraction facial. After a few minutes of her doing the extractions, she leaves and comes back with her instructor, "Nicole" By that time, I had been at Xenon for about 50 minutes and had about five minutes of "facial/extraction" - a towel on my face for about two minutes and about two or three minutes extractions. I was pretty obvious, as Nanette already told me before, she does not like to do facials or extractions, she likes to do "eye lash extensions" - it was clear to me that she did not want to do the facial and extractions. I told the instructor, "Nicole" that this was the most disorganized and ridicules experience I ever had - I told her that I had been at Xenon's before many times, but I never experience any treatment like this before. The instructor, Nicole, said we don't want to break your capillaries - I never heard anything like that before when I had asked for a facial with extractions! Clearly, the student, Nanette, did not feel like doing extractions and got her teacher to get her out of doing the facial with extractions! The instructor, Nicole, said "extractions are about 10 minutes and the facials is about one hour" - I told her that of the 45 minutes while I was there, I did not get to the room until about 6pm and during the time I was laying on the table, the student, Nanette, had already left the room three times, each time for about 5-8 minutes! The extraction time I had received by the student was about two to three minutes, plus about two minutes with a towel over my face! The teacher said "I think you are disrespectful to the student" - and I asked her if it is "not disrespectful for the student to leave the room three times and keeps telling me that she does not want to do facials and extractions, that she wants to do eye lash extensions" - and keeps leaving the room and trying to get another student to come and do the extractions. I told the instructor, Nicole, that I would like the name and contact information for the manager and that I would also contact corporate office about this kind of treatment. Clearly, by the other ONE STAR Yelp review left by another client, one can see that this place is going down the toilet. It seems, students only have to do treatments they like to do and when a client wants something different, the Esthetician just gets a teacher to bail the student out of doing what the client asked and is paying for! I have no idea how this place is staying in business! I NEVER experienced anything like this! STAY AWAY IF YOU WANT A FACIAL WITH EXTRACTIONS because the student esthetician "does not like to perform extraction facials!

    The school is so unprofessional at best! The staff is rude and the director is just as bad. I have…read morenever seen such disrespect and to think they are teaching these students to behave in a unprofessional setting is exactly why there's no more customer service. I would NEVER recommend the school to anyone! There's a reason they have so many bad reviews and no stars for all their years in the business!!!

    Avalon Institute - hair - Updated May 2026

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