Vidal Sassoon Training School

I’ve been going here for the past 5 years and it has never failed to disappoint me. You just have to be ready to be sat in a chair for up to 4 hours and be open to the fact that you may not get a conventional haircut.
Everytime I have been, I have had full confidence in the students and the tutors. The tutors in particular are extremely knowledgeable which I have never experienced before. Especially since I have very thick asian hair.
So if you’re looking for a cheap and professional haircut, give it a go!

Recently, I paid regular price for a cut/​color at HOB salon in Camden (£120+) and it was totally meh. Never again. I’ve gone to training schools for mostly the last 7 years with great results.
I had long, virgin hair with pink ombré that I was totally bored of. The student was fantastic for my color consultation, as I just wanted to go dark all over, and she suggested a warm chesnut/​chocolate with warm red tones underneath. Guided by her instructor Amber, I have some pretty fucking fabulous hair! I was even surprised at how there is not even a trace of the bleached/​pink ends!
Cons — Omg, the phone line. It’s such a bitch to get through. When they do answer, they are curt but they do seem impossibly busy. You must get a skin test before getting color, a pain for the first visit. My color took 4 hours, and I was very hungry by the end of it. And the sinks in the color room are uncomfortable, and the water temperature seems to waver.
But for £19, I look HAWT. And that is really priceless!
(I went to the 48 Brook St location but not seeing it on Unilocal

I have been here for a haircut and I wasn’t disappointed. cheap and good! What else do you need?:)
The only downside is the fact that the teachers keep disturbing.

I have to make a special trip to this salon as the director certainly knows what i like!

I have used the Staff Training facility for 25 years and until recently was always pleased with the cuts. However I noticed that they are no longer supervising their students closely this year, and my last cut on 6^th May 2010 is disastrous. The young man who cut my hair was pleasant, when I remarked that no one had ever cut my hair like that before he assured me that there were different ways of doing it. Had he sought help from his teache, r or had she been supervising him closely, I would not have ended up with a disastrous haircut. I wanted to believe it was not so bad and managed to convince myself it was not that bad and paid for it before I left. When I got home I was less than happy and when I washed my hair and could not make it look at all reasonable I had no doubt that I’d had a bad cut. In addition it is very short, much shorter than I have ever had my hair and therefore I have months and months to wait for this awful cut to grow out

if you can afford to get your hair cut at a proper salon for say pounds 20, why come out with a sore bum after sitting there and a novice experimenting with your hair for 3 hours, in addition to that, you have to put up with their snotty instructors who will say VERY GOOD to all students, and make you feel like the student is really doing a good job when, at the end of the cut, you just realise, you might have to go spend 28 quid again at a salon and have it done how you really wanted., so i guess that makes a waste of 4 hours altogether and paying at two separate locations, not to mention the tube and wait times involved.
horrible experience!

I have been to each of the Vidal Sassoon schools around Bond Street over the years and as a result know too much for a hairdresser customer. I remember I once went into a high street haridressers and asked them to cut a bob. All they did was brush my hair straight and cut a line round. Now after being in the school and hearing the technical details about how it should be done I knew this person didn’t really know how to cut hair.
I have never dared go back to a normal high street hairdresser again. So my only options now are to take an annual leave day and go to the Vidal Sassoon school or pay an exorbitant rate at a fancy hairdresser. I know which I prefer.
It does take a long time, but having once sat in a ‘normal’ (by fancy) hairdressers who took at least 2 and half hours to cut the same style it does not actually seem that much longer to go to the school.
Since most of the students are from abroad and rarely speak much English there is never much of the normal hairdresser banter which is okay by me as I can quietly read a book and just relax for a while.

I will have to give this place 5 stars because the both time i have been there, not only was my haircut fab but the way i was treated was fab and professional. Both times I’ve had a chinese girl cut my hair and they are so good at it. I like the fact that they take their time when cutting to make it look perfect and just how you want it. Oh and when they wash your hair they give you like a nice massage in the head of course.
It does take about 3 hours but i think its worth it for a hair cut you’ll be happy with. At the end they usually take a pic of the final cut.

The only reason I’m giving this two stars is becuase the highlights were pretty fantastic and the girl who did these was very lovely.
The rest of my time here was a disaster. They hacked all my hair off! I told them I wanted Cameron Diaz. I came out crying. The guy dind’t speak any English which didn’t help and I should have run screaming then. Not being able to communicate with a guy hacking at your hair is not fun. The instructor was rude and just said ‘that’s what you asked for’ and that was that.
I cried. A lot. But my friend convinced me that it would look better with some colour so I went back in. They were much nicer on that side and they looked after me. They even gave me a glass of water!
And yes. My hair did look better. The colour was great. But I won’t go back. Worse than that, I’ll never set foot in a Vidal Sassoon hair salon. If they’re happy to let people leave when they’re crying, they really don’t care enough about their customers.
The whole thing took 4 ½ hours. Never again. It’s places like this that remind me why I pay a lot of money to get my hair done.

The Vidal Sassoon training school for hairdressers is tucked away behind Bond Street station. This is a brilliant place to go if you want an inexpensive (or even free) hair cut and you’re quite prepared to allow the (trainee) hairdresser to experiment. If you’re the kind of person that has definate ideas about what you want and don’t want anything too out there (if you know what I mean…), then perhaps the Vidal Sassoon training school might not suit you. The good thing about hair is that it can always grow back. Expect to pay inbetween 4 and 11 pounds for a hair cut or trim. Perms and various other hair services are available.