ACADEMY
Inexpensive and still really really great.
**NB bring cash**
Yes it took a little longer to get through the full service, but it wasn't like I didn't expect that. My colour + toner/treatment and blow dry came to $60. So good for this city, especially as the state of my hair was so bad when i walked in that some would have called it a colour correction.
So essentially you sit down with your student, they ask you plenty of questions (as they really do not want to do the wrong thing, probably more so than regular hairdressers which I am stoked about as I am a total fusspot) and then they write a few things down and report to their supervisor. They tell you exactly what they are doing so you get no surprises and then go about their business. I would say the application was similar in time to most other salons.
The woman doing my hair was a gem and I found the other students working around her to be an absolute riot.
The only reason this didn't get a 5 (being that I am super happy with the result!) was that there was a lesson booked an hour into my consult so my student stopped doing my hair for a while and the supervisor washed it and put the toner in. It wasn't explained to me that the two were combined so I thought I had lost the treatment which was essential given the quality of my straw hair. Anyway, it all came good and the colour has settled really nicely after a few washes and hasn't all run out (this has happened to me before at a different salon).
Big thumbs up!
Probs would go up to 4.5 actually :D but it's not available on yelp read more