A license first, a career after that
Vera Row Academy opened nine years ago in a single rented studio with twelve stations. It has since expanded into a full training salon, but the standard has not changed: no one is signed off on a technique until an instructor has watched them do it correctly more than once.
We are honest about the trade this leads to. It is a service business and it is on your feet most of the day. Building a full clientele after licensure typically takes six months to a year, and a good number of our graduates end up renting a chair or going independent rather than working for someone else.
Every instructor here is licensed in the discipline they teach and still takes clients in the student salon, so the technique being taught is the technique still being practiced.
