Academy DiCapelli - East Hartford, Connecticut

Paul G.

this school would rather protect its own image than protect its students. very unprofessional. Many staff members (front desk, office staff) will take out their own personal problems on students. Students will be laughed at and made to feel lesser than. My biggest regret was ever coming here.

Tom L.

Awesome deal on haircuts only $5. Professional students and knowledgeable instructors. The school is very clean and modern. Be patient when you come as a client, sometimes you have to wait a bit.

Whitney J.

I recently completed my esthetics program, and I am incredibly grateful for my experience at this school. Anita, the Director of Esthetics and my main instructor, truly puts her heart into teaching. She brings years of expertise and is deeply dedicated to helping us succeed. While she can be tough at times, it’s all to push us to be our best, and she treats each student like family. I have a strong background in beauty, with family members in the industry for decades, and I can confidently say Anita provides top-notch education, teaching you not only the basics but also how to make your services stand out.

Dolly, my other instructor, is also wonderful. She has an incredible depth of knowledge in clinical treatments and waxing, and her kindness and patience make learning from her a great experience. Justine is another joy to be around. Her classes are fun and interactive, and she’s the waxing queen! Each instructor has their own strengths, and no matter who you learn from, you’ll walk away with valuable skills.

The administrative team—Maria, Sarah, and Deb—were also nothing but helpful and incredibly welcoming! They made navigating the program and any questions or concerns so easy, and they genuinely care about the students.

Balancing life, work, and school as an adult wasn’t easy, but it was so worth it. Completing this program feels like such an accomplishment, and I’m excited to carry forward everything I learned. Thank you to everyone at the school for this fantastic experience!

Lindsey

This school is trash save your time and money. Cosmetology and barber have been without a teacher for months because they keep quitting the administration and owner don’t care about you only your money and you litteraly have to do rude & sometimes aggressive clients hair for free. This school is disorganized and disgusting to the staffs attitude and the school bathrooms having pubic hair on the toilets and poop on the wall. Your basically just funding there lifestyles going here please run as far as possible and go somewhere else it’s sad .

yvonne ?. Y. L.

If you value your Time, Energy, and most importantly your education drive pass this school like a nascar driver I mean speed pass this “Establishment”. The school is disorganized majority of the instructors can care less about their job there were only 2 instructors who truly cared about us and our education, the lunch room had a foul smell the refrigerator was never cleaned my freshman faze instructor was bombarded with work that didn’t obtain to her due to the head senior instructor constantly disappearing on the senior students they always bum rushed our class for help which wasn’t their fault due to the unapproachable head instructor who walked around totting an outlandish malicious attitude to the point her students would purposely avoid her, due to the fact of not knowing if she was gonna be polite or down right nasty (per usual) and was very unwelcoming since my first day attending the school. I started school there in November and by December I felt like it was a total waste of Money, effort and most importantly my Time.
My education wasn’t taken one bit of serious I was over crowded in a class with 19 people at once ( mind you this school only has one freshman classroom) it was so bad we had to move our mannequin stands to our theory class. My freshman instructor was often taking 1 hour lunches and 40 minute breaks (when breaks were only 15-20 minutes) and also doing her hair in class or sitting in the theory room on her phone (especially when the class was over crowded) so for a whole 5 weeks I quarterly learned every practical beside rollers and perm rod sets because that was common knowledge for a lot of us, it was so bad I would be on YouTube searching up a practical when I had 2 “instructors” in my class who should be hands on with me.

Me and my classmates often leaned on each other and confided in one another during this time I felt like I was paying the school money for things my classmates and I were teaching myself, One of the 2 owners made it no better she made and excuses for every thing I brought to her attention she also accused me of having and attitude when she tried to cut me off mid answer for her questions she was honestly so narcissistic in that situation I was appalled I knew at that very moment I was done with this school there was nothing they can do for me or anyone else, they’re so money hungry it’s sad.
There is so much talent in this school that isn’t being nourished, so many wonderful student and 2 amazing instructors who deserve more than a raise they were amazing and due to one of them they made me love shears even more and May God bless the rest of the students who is scared of change or may be truly stuck with this school being their only option.
Moral to the story go where your dreams will be nurtured I cannot speak for the esthetics side or barber side but if you want to be a cosmetologist run from this school you will be met with excuses for their excuses. 😂

Yamileth S.

Came here several time since I discovered this place.
First of all I like Ms. Mari, her kindness, the way she does blow dry, she empathize with the students and takes her time to stop by and starts a conversation with me. She loves teaching, that's for sure!! Always demonstrating to students how she does it.

I also want to thank Ms. Shawn (I hope spelling it right), she also knows what to do and I like when she smiles. She helps students in the process, and she comes to stations regularly to check if everything is going well.

Finally, I want to say something about the lady at front desk. Has been 3 times saying: "it's full", "there are no students", "they don't take clients today"...plus how she says it.
When she's not there, they allowed me to get my service done.
The last time she saw me at the entrance walking to the front desk, she didn't say anything. After 5mins of waiting (I was the only one over there) she came. She asked nothing like how may help you? so I come and asked to color my hair...Finally she said it !
I mean. Why she didn't say it when she saw me walking to the front desk?

Hopefully the academy hire another lady.!
Sometimes there is a long blonde hair girl. I guess she's a teacher. She is polite. Don't know her name but she's always there.

Please change that!! I still wanna come. Thank you!

J G.

Went with my daughter to an initial briefing and let us waiting for more than 40 mins. No one asked anything about why we were there. Finally someone came to ask if we need anything and that's when we finally let her know we had an appointment for a registration. At first the lady that attended us was kind of rude letting us know that it was "fully English"🤭😂 and that there was no exceptions in explaining anything other than English... Yes, well... We never asked for a translator or anything but... at the end she just started showing us a basic biology book that it was supposed to be the "spine" of the course and it "represented" the most important class to graduate from the academy. 😒 Well it felt kind of intimidating but doesn't have the expected result, so she just stayed there looking at us in silence and I just told her that I wasn't impressed by that , what I needed was the price for the course which she took too long in giving it to us. At the end I realized this environment was superficial and no cares for teaching just to be paid and that's it. After a long time she gave us a folder with prices and was a joke seeing the fakeness in the other workers and staff. For me it was way too expensive for what you really going to get from that kind of environment and reading some comments here, I'm not nor wasn't wrong at all. When I mentioned veterans student aid, her face expression tranformed and she became the nicest and polite person in that place🥴. Sorry but quantity not always means quality and if it was given to me a different impression, possibly my daughter would've join. But No, thanks.

Bernice J.

Went to have a full color done. My hairstylist was a young lady name “Shay”. I was kind of edgy because she seemed so young (19 I believe she said). I did pick out a color which after finished I felt was a little too light for my complexion. However, “Shay” made my disappointment of the color so much better. She took her time to make me feel at ease. She explained how to take care of my color, I felt she was comforting and understanding. I left with confidence because of her patience and knowledge of how to care for my hair. I was very pleased after talking to her. This was my first time but I will be back - requesting “Shay!”