Design 8000 Hair Styling School

Its a mental disease hospital, not a hairstyle school:(A warning to ppl who are gonna buy deals on Groupon: STAY AWAY from this SHITTY place! I was super lucky because I called them before purchase. I actually just wanted to buy a haircut and style package but only did a blow dry since I didn’t trust them base on the price.
I called them to make an appointment. The lady on phone asked me to pay them in store instead of buying from groupon. She asked me to give her $ 17. That’s so ridiculous! The price online is $ 14 and today I can get an extra 20% off, so it’s 11 something in total. So I refused her and said I prefer to buy this online. And then I can’t believe she started to yell at me!!! Super rude and crazy, reminded me of Haward’s mom in BBT. It’s my first review on Unilocal coz she scared me:((

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You get what you pay for. Having said that, I’ve had better experiences at Hair Styling Schools, and worse. Like the other reviewers, I bought a Teambuy group deal for this. Ended up paying about $ 25 extra (which is okay because it was mentioned on the voucher). Note the following:
Owner: Micky, I believe, is an unsmiling woman.
Teacher/​Supervisor: I had a plump Caucasian lady, and she was nice.
Student: She was great, followed instructions, did what she could. She was a better haircutter than a colorist. Actually, she was a really good snipper.
Haircut: Too short for my liking but I guess the splitends had to go. Overall, the hairdresser did an amazing job with my layers and bangs.
Color: Disappointed. I was hoping for chunkier peekaboos and I had a picture pulled up and everything. I got a series of stringy highlights. Here’s the thing, I don’t hate it… it’s not a flaming red top that I can’t go anywhere with… It’s nice, subtle, just not exactly the look I was going for.
Verdict: my experience wasn’t as horrifying as some of the others have stated. And yes, there’s a wait time and that’s probably the most disappointing part. If you’re going to go here, it’s a risk… but hey, it is a lot cheaper.

I wish there was an option for 0 star as that’s what this place really deserves. DO NOT go to this place even if you are offered a free service. I made the mistake of giving this place a chance and highly suggest YOU DO NOT try this out; unless you are willing to take big risks with your skin and hair. Like many others here, I purchased a Groupon for $ 35 that was to include either a full colour /​highlights, haircut, intensive conditioning and style.
Flag # 1 — Owner picks up phone and sounds very rude and condescending. I ignore it and was asked to come in for an appointment at 11:30 am yesterday and I showed up at 11:15 am. Instructor # 1 (African American lady) immediately tells me no students has shown up today and doesn’t care if I have a 11:30 am appointment. Flag # 2 — She tells me very nonchalantly I have to wait until someone comes in and she doesn’t know when. I ask her to call the owner — she raises her voice and refuses to contact her or anyone else — ‘as it’s not her business’. I wait around since I took the day off, a student happens to turn up at 12:30 pm. Flag # 3 — After waiting foro over an hour now (no apology yet), I then was informed they don’t have the hair colour I want. They tell me their ‘color man’ is not too far and will bring it by — he turns up close to 1:00 pm. I am then seated with what seemed to be a relatively new student who started to work on my hair. Flag # 4 — my scalp starts itching like no other product I have ever used in my life, including box color. I am surprised because you see Igora ads everywhere but they use a line by — Sabrina hair colors. By the time she finished coloring my hair, it is now 3:00 pm — this resulted in a horrendous (I am not exaggerating) result where the bottom of my hair is now black and the top of my head is red (life the colour of Unilocal logo red). I was devastated but tried to keep my cool, until of course the student blames my hair for the uneven tone, and then starts mentioning because I’ve used box colour, keratin treatment more than 2 plus years ago etc. Her excuses if what eventually led me to blow up right there. If they’ve made a mistake and that does happen — take accountability and correct it. Don’t blame the customer for their stupidity. Meanwhile, instructor # 1 has left for the day and instructor # 2 (Caucasian) steps in to give her opinion on what should have been done instead. Explaining this to all her 6 or 7 students. Some of them are trying to convince me that it looks really good. Instructor # 2 refuses to fix or correct the situation and informs me either the owner or Instructor #1 is to correct this as she will not touch it.
Both had already left for the day. It is now 4:30 pm. She calls the owner who says that I should go in today to fix it. Owner refuses to talk directly with me and communicates with Instructor # 2 and says I should come in at 11:00 am. I tell her I am not going to wait 2 hours again, so will come in at 1:00 pm. She asks me to call the owner. I call more than 20 times — she does not answer the phone and her voicemail is full. I advise Instructor# 2 that I will see them at 1:00 pm. At least Instructor # 2 is apologetic and feels terribly for the mess on my head which is a humiliation. I go home to people asking me if the person that did my hair had severe visual impairment? I have seriously never had such a bad outcome of color on my hair and I have gone to various salons over the last 20 years.
Today, Day 2 — I arrive at 12:45 pm for the appointment, instructor # 1 seems surprised I’m there and apparently was not told anything and REFUSES to do my hair to correct it, even though both the owner and Instructor # 2 strictly confirmed she was to correct the mess since the colours were mixed incorrectly. By now, I am livid and outdid her arrogance. Again, the owner is not answering my calls. I leave her a voice mail. After a lot of finger pointing (this seems to be very common there) eventually the owner shows up at 2:00 pm. Their suggestion is I go back to my original hair color. I try to reason with them as to it is now 7 hours of wasted time and I am pretty much walking out of there exactly with the colour I walked in yesterday SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS ENTIRE thing?
The owner tells me to decide 1) I get a refund or 2) I go back to original color. You would think out of basic courtesy they would do both because a) you’ve screwed my hair and scalp, insisting I go back to my original color and so I don’t have any color change on m y hair and b) I HAVE SPENT 7 hours of my life in your salon.
I agree to go back to original because I can’t stand going around looking like a flaming bird in the sun. However, after spending 4 more hours today — the top of my head is still red and the bottom is a dark brown. Again I was told, they can’t understand what’s wrong with my hair. I had enough and stormed out of there.
The owner has NOT ONCE apologized.

My brother bought me a groupon (yay birthdays!) for a deep conditioning treatment, cut and style. I’ve read other reviews of this place before scheduling my appointment and every single one of them has been negative feedback! So I tested my luck and decided to book an appointment in the morning in hopes of avoiding disappointment.
Overall it was an average experience. I asked if it was possible to skip the cut (because I don’t trust just anyone cutting my hair!) and they offered to straighten my thick curly hair for me instead. The lady who did my hair was nice and careful. I could tell that the students there didn’t like their instructor. The deep conditioning treatment was just average and the result at the end wasn’t anything super spectacular or anything I can’t do at home. I wouldn’t waste money to come here again. If you want your hair to look like you came out of a salon, don’t cheap out at places like this and pay for quality salon services!

I purchased a package off DealTicker: $ 24 for a haircut, wash, blow dry, style, deep conditioning treatment and full colour or highlights.
I frequent hair schools because I’ve had great experiences in the past, but my entire experience at Design 8000 was disappointing to say the least. Upon entering, I spent a good fifteen minutes trying to explain to the receptionist/​instructor (who seemed to barely understand English) and a stylist what I was there for and what I wanted. At the time, my hair was dyed blonde with my dark roots peeking out. I didn’t ask for much — just that it be coloured to match my roots as best as possible. Both of them consulted ME on which colour it should be. Hello, are you a hairdresser? Do you have eyes? This is your supposed field of expertise, not mine.
The whole time I was there, the stylists (who also barely understood English) were making rude gestures and seemingly shit-​talking the instructor, and the instructor expected them to know all these things without ever teaching them. Disgustingly unprofessional. It was as if the girl doing my hair had never done anyone’s hair before. It took her a good 20 minutes to figure out how to mix the colour and then she didn’t know how to apply it (I could’ve done it myself at home for $ 10). I asked for my split ends to be cut (again, basic hair school knowledge) and neither the instructor nor the stylist knew how much should come off. So I left without my haircut at all. *sigh*
The shampoo and conditioner used on my hair was terrible, and there was no deep conditioning treatment. Much lower than «salon» quality. They destroyed my hair and made it impossible to get a brush through my long wavy locks. The best part was being recommended to purchase a good conditioner and use it at home regularly. HA! I use Aveda products that retail for $ 30 per bottle and NEVER have issues brushing my hair.
The colour turned out pretty badly. The shade was lighter than what I wanted, and I could still see blonde in some parts. I purchased multiple vouchers, thinking I could save big on my hair for a year, but you couldn’t pay me to go back. Worst experience at a salon ever!