Choosing the right beauty school is a very personal choice. We all have different ways in which we absorb knowledge and grow. I can tell you one thing that everyone must do though, and that is shop for your school. Even if you are sold on your first visit, why not solidify that choice and know without a shadow of a doubt that you made the best choice.
This is my beauty school “shopping” experience…
Reno, NV “the biggest little city” was the largest metropolitan city to me during my years living in South Lake Tahoe, CA. After 7 years for snowboarding and, let’s face it “living the dream,” I was finally ready to take charge of my professional life and start cosmetology school. So Reno seemed like the best place to start looking. Although they required 200 more hours in Nevada than California did for a cosmetology license, I was still toying with the idea of staying in Tahoe. That Idea vanished very quickly, the schools I visited were, let’s just say their standards of cleanliness and sanitation where not up to a 5 year olds standards…
This led me on a wonderful weekend trip to San Francisco, CA. Now I grew up just south of San Francisco in a small town Called Half Moon Bay and my family still resided all throughout the area. But I wasn’t going to decide what school I attended because of that (If they didn’t meet my standards I was off to New York City) I started at a very well know school that raised the bar just a hair, not enough to keep me there though. It was my Visit to The Cinta Aveda Institute that really blew my mind.
It may have been the exposed brick walls, or that oh so pleasant signature scent that is Aveda, even their course curriculum blew me away. Everything I heard and experienced raised the bar for me, but even with all of that it was the people that made me decide right then and there that I didn’t need to look any further. I must say that looking back even now, with my dream job starting in just a few weeks, I owe this amazing life and start of my career to the most important choice I’ve ever made, and to my educators and The Cinta Aveda Institute.
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