Canadian Beauty College

If I could have given this school a negative rating, I would have. The school is horrible and all the things they tell you when you come in for information about the school are lies. They pressure you into paying a deposit to hold your spot, make you buy a kit telling you its not optional when it is — found out after I had already started at the school and was talking to some students.
They over enroll the class just to make more money without caring that they are overcapacity and they promise things and never deliver. I took the part time makeup diploma course and withdrew 4 months after starting. We were supposed to receive student cards the second week of class starting and up until Jan 80% of the class didn’t receive them. When you ask, they always have an excuse. There was lighting on only one half of the room (and about 30% of the lights were always out) — which made sense when I enrolled they told me the class would be no larger than 10, when there are 16 people in the class this left almost half the class to work without any lighting. The teacher was unqualified to teach the class and was fired after three months with no replacement so they cancelled classes until they could find someone. The class made multiple complaints to «the Dean» which in all reality did nothing for the students.
Up until the new teacher started, the class did not know how to properly conceal and foundation a face — 3 months in to the course and the basics were not even taught. Certain things that would be required in the makeup industry such as face charts or applying false eyelashes (which apparently is not even in the curriculum) were not even taught under the old instructor and when the new teacher came along she was horrified to learn that a class of students that had been with the school for 3 months — 12 hours a week — did not know what face charts were and how to complete them. How embarrassing would it be to go into a makeup industry job and not know how to do face charts, something that is supposed to be a basic necessity for that line of work.
The instructor would often leave the class for long periods of time and was rude and overall aggressive. She would lecture the class on professionalism and would stand in front of the class with no shoes on and a see through shirt with no bra. She also had no problem ridiculing students and coworkers work and would often yell at students in front of the whole class. Management finally stepped in and fired her, but not without wasting 3 months of students time. The new instructor tried to make up for lost time by rushing through the basics again but at that point most people are fed up and management refuses to refund money so they are sticking with the program so they can graduate with the diploma and atleast take advantage of the discount that comes along with it.
Up until the point I left there was no progress report and only a few marks given back. The program has no structure and often you are left wondering how well you are actually doing since the school offers no progress report. But don’t worry, their accounting department is super reliable when it comes to taking your payment out of your account every month, they never miss one of those!
When I approached the school about withdrawing and refunding my money I was told that I would not be receiving the full amount back. I have been met with resistance and they realized they made a mistake and offer no solution to the problems of their school. If I was Canadian Beauty College Head Office I would take a look into how this school is being represented by management and teachers alike, its embarrassing that the school claims to offer a comprehensive Makeup Diploma that is supposed to produce work ready, confident and skilled graduates, yet they cant even employ proper instructors to train students. Also the school is endorsed my Makeup Forever which I understood as a professional brand, I wonder if they knew what was going on in their Eglinton Campus they would still want their products represented in that school.

I purchased a Groupon voucher for their beauty workshop which was very simple and it didn’t worth the money I spent. However, I use Make Up Forever products and decided to place order for couple items and take advantage of 20% off promo. The promise was that they would place the order for me and have the products shipped to me within a week. 10 days later and no news… So I called to follow up with my order. They hadn’t placed the order and told me to expect 2 weeks for delivery!
I no longer need the products and in the battle to get my money back!
Do NOT go to this place. What a scam and awful customer service!

I took the makeup certificate course at the Eglington location with classes every Saturday from 10PM to 2PM. Honestly, apart from the friends I made at the class (I think we were about 12 people in the class) and our makeup instructor, Melissa,
nothing is good about this school.
The classes literally had no makeup supplies. Either everything was almost finished or we had to bring our own makeup for practice.
Our final exam we didn’t even have makeup brushes (Kudos).
I had to get my certificate early because I was flying back home, no one at the reception replied back to me, no one replied back to the emails. It’s like treating you in the best possible way the first time they give you a school tour and once you enrol and pay, it’s like «we don’t know you anymore». Really really poor customer helpdesk service.
Honestly, YouTube stuff you’ll learn better and save money.

There is nothing I love more than being pampered. Unfortunately I’m a student and worse than that FINE ARTS student. I will never have any money but that doesn’t mean I can’t live luxuriously and experience a lavish lifestyle. I got my mother her first mani pedi in her life so at least now she has a standard to judge the rest by. I got shellac mani and pedicure. First time I’ve ever been told you can’t do spa mani and shellac together… Apparently it has to be dry. The pedicure was horrible. My toes are still sore from her cutting my cuticles way too close. I have dark skin and technicians can’t see my cuticles but instead of leaving well enough alone keep trying after I tell them it’s ok just leave it. Anyway she was super nice and pleasant so I still tipped. I was encouraged to buy a 3 facial or peels or microdermabrasion package for 55 cuz it expired that day. I went in for my first ever microdermabrasion which I liked but the package is still available. I will return they gave me a complimentary microdermabrasion as well. It wasn’t clear that it was a mini but still good for me.

I had a really good experience at this college, I took the makeup diploma course which I completed in 3 months.
My instructor was fantastic extremely knowledgeable and spent so much time helping us individually. We had a small class of 11 and it was so nice and intimate. I have since been working freelance and also I have worked at makeup counters.
I would highly recommend Canadian Beauty College.

I went here and took the full time make up course, which is every day, Monday to Friday for three months. On the first day of there was 5 people in the class, who all dropped out within the first week. I was just so excited to be going to school for makeup I looked past how sketchy it was and stayed. They are way more interested in selling you products than teaching anything useful. Even the staff there are not happy and see how big of a scam it is. It was a massive waste of time and I left after a month and a half, and I have no clue why I even stayed that long. And they still wanted me to pay for the full class. There are so many real makeup schools in Toronto who actually teach make up and aren’t sales based. Soma is a really go example. I wish I had done my research and had not fallen into the trap of a sales person. Stay away.

I went using a group on offer. A choice of 3 hours of Make-​up course. It was supposed to be from 6 – 9. It started at 6:15 and ended at 8:30.
They also try to promote their products and encourage you to buy them.
The trainer felt not very talented, just showed the basic things. The brushes were not hygienic, we have to clean some else used brushes yourself. There were so less shades, that none of the shades matched my skin color. so I ended up looking horrible. Even the existing products are really old and residual quantity. One of eye liner bottle was dry and empty. There is absolutely no preparation for teaching this class. You can watch you tube and learn much better way.

Took a 3-​hour makeup class here a while ago and really could have learned more by watching one YouTube tutorial and standing in Sephora for 3 hours. I’m quite familiar with makeup and taught myself a lot a few years ago, but I went with a friend who wasn’t and wanted to learn how to really do it right.
The first 40 minutes or so was talking about what products were in vague terms (Ex. said these were countouring creams but never really explained the benefit of countouring for a newbie) and explaining how you have to wash your face before applying makeup. However, we were only offered a ‘pre-​cleanse’ (makeup remover) and then I was only only person who said I wanted to wash my face after (since makeup remover is oil-​based). Apparently I was to go to the bathroom which wasn’t even if the office and splash water on my face.
Then we were told to start applying. That was pretty much it. No step-​by-​steps to walk you through it (one or two people there had no experience with makeup). If you asked a question it was answered, but frequently not in a helpful way. When asking about eyeliner (which the instructor didn’t even acknowledge), and how to apply it, answers ranged from «Just apply it» to «There are no rules». I feel like a diagram would have been helpful when discussing the application of certain products. They didn’t even have eyeliner readily available and what they did have was all black; they also had no eyeliner brushes.
Another note: though she had discussed mascara, when I asked for some (this seems basic to me), I was told they didn’t have any to use but if I wanted, I could buy some from them to use. Again, I could have just gone to Sephora with better success.
We were told by no means to apply foundation with our hands so when I couldn’t find a brush, I asked and was told they were all being used. Overall I think this class would have been helped with each person having a little set of basic brushes provided. Considering all their brushes were in a bin and cleaned, this could easily be possible and would cut down on confusion and people running out or not having options.
They should also have more than one of each item. While they had a dozen foundations, they only had one of each shade. So with there being 5 pale people in the class, we likely didn’t get to use the best shade for our skin. This was more like a makeup studio setting and less like a class, in terms of supplies.
The class ended after 2 hours (after an hour and a half some people came in and dropped two large boxes of more supplies we needed — like the powder blushes that were nowhere to be found earlier). Most people had a Groupon but I felt bad for the anyone who paid full price. If you had zero knowledge of makeup, it might be a beneficial course to just see the options and play around, so for that I recommend it. But if you’re going to learn how to apply certain things, I can’t say it’s better than learning online.