Providing a professional caliber tool kit to our students is just one of the many advantages that gives our Barbering and Hair Design students an advantage. When you enroll at Johnny Matthew’s you’ll get to experience cutting with Hattori Hanzo Shears; in our opinion they’re unmatched in their beauty and ability to keep an edge.
By enrolling in a barber and beauty school that’s partnering with Hattori Hanzo Shears, you’ll gain access to the company’s educational offerings, its live demos, including shear maintenance and sharpening, and monthly visits from Hattori Hanzo educators and staff!
Enroll now! Hair Design and Barbering students experience the best of the best in tools and equipment and Johnny Matthew’s School’s outstanding salon culture!
Innovative, hip and urban is how we view our school and our commitment to excellence shows.
We run the top of the line Ferrari dryers and matching red barber and hair design chairs for a racy experience all round on our school salon floor! Stop by and find out more today or take a tour and talk about our enrollment options now!
At Johnny Matthew’s, we offer a modern, fully integrated curriculum using our JM Drive and Milady’s Cengage Course book. You never knew becoming a barber could be so easy! Gone are the heavy text books and in comes your free iPad upon enrollment complete with a digital download and instant access to our Milady Cengage Brain and JM Drive.
Pacino the Barber at your fingertips! State exam prep at your fingertips – from home, in the classroom or just on the go!
We’ve taken barber education and rocketed it forward into the 21st Century!
Want to Work on A Cruise Ship and Travel the World?
Ever been interested in working overseas or on a cruise ship? If so, then Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School is the place for you! Johnny Matthew’s hairdressing school is fully accredited with ITEC (International Therapy Examination Council), which is the exclusive council that will allow you to work on cruise ships around the world.
Beginning in July 2016, all incoming students will have the opportunity to obtain their International License at the same time as they are working towards their Oregon State license. Even if you don’t desire to work outside of the U.S., having an ITEC license will be greatly beneficial to you when applying for stylist/barber positions outside of Oregon. Along with learning the Oregon standards and meeting the U.S. requirements to become a hair designer or barber, you also meet the international requirements and standards. Showing that you have put in the time and effort to get the global certification will put you above and beyond other candidates for the job you are wanting to obtain.
Transfer your state license with ease
Along with being able to work outside of the United States, an ITEC license makes it much easier to move from Oregon to other states, and to be able to easily transfer your state certification.
If a career in cosmetology has been your dream, give us a call at (503)902-5288!
Miss Briauna Rohde will be graduating from Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School within the next month! We would like to extend our congratulations and excitement to her as she progresses to the next chapter in her life. Briauna will be entering the June class for Esthetics at the Tangled Ends Hair Academy in Keizer, Oregon.
Tangled Ends Hair Academy offers Esthetics here in the Willamette Valley, and we couldn’t be happier to send one of our top students over to pursue the program in Esthetics. Whilst Briauna chose to enroll in the Johnny Matthew’s Hair Design program instead of the Tangled Ends Hair Design program we are happy that she’ll receive a 250 hour credit because of the classes she has taken with Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School. We look forward to seeing what paths she will carve in the beauty industry, being able to do both hair and make-up for Salem. Briauna has an impeccable eye for styling and coloring hair, and with her training in esthetics she will surely be an unstoppable force.
If you are looking for an exciting new career that fits your life and schedule, hair design is the path for you! In the hairdressing industry, you can set your own schedule, your own prices, and your own terms. Hair design is always changing and evolving. Trends are constantly morphing. Hair design of yesteryear is behind us, and a new, exciting road awaits you!
Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School has made downtown Salem home for the past two and a half years. We are the newest school in town, delivering our innovative and modern training system to the new generation of hairdressers and tomorrow’s leaders in this amazing industry.
Hair Design Training for Your Career Success
Once you enroll at Johnny Matthew’s, you begin two weeks of intensive training to prepare you for the basics of cutting and coloring. After two weeks, you integrate with other students on the salon floor, and begin taking your first clients. We believe the first two weeks are the most important – that’s when you develop the habits that you will take with you for the rest of your journey. We also believe that getting you out and comfortable on the floor quickly is important; we want you to gain the greatest amount of supervised time on the floor so you feel fully competent when you graduate and secure a position in a salon. You can learn and grow at your own pace, while we provide structure and guidance through our textbook and weekly classes that foster discussion and breakdown the material for greater understanding.
We provide junior and senior sessions in both our hairdressing and barbering classes at specific intervals in order to further your education. You will learn advanced personalization techniques, more complex haircuts and layering patterns, along with hair color placement options. Once you’ve completed your training, you will be ready to go out into the workplace and provide quality hair services that can rival the ‘best hairdresser in town’.
The hairdressing program at Johnny Matthew’s comprises 1,700 hours training, which can be completed in 10-12 months. We encourage students to be here at the school as often as possible to ensure that they receive the most education, and gain the highest level of confidence by the time graduation arrives. We offer low monthly payments, and work with all types of schedules and lifestyles.
Call us today for more information, schedule a tour, or even apply for admission!
We have opened up our innovative barber program in Salem, Oregon for new enrollments!
Salem Barber By Day, Musician by Night
The barbering industry standard has been raised with big names like Johnny Matthew’s, Pacino the Barber and now Salem, Oregon’s very own Leek Da Barber. Leek Da Barber lives the ‘New Millennium Barber Lifestyle.’ Its urban, fresh and ‘gelled’ with his fine music rhymes!
Leek is a graduate of the Johnny Matthew’s barber program here in Salem and he now works in one of Salem’s finer barber shops during the day while he writes music and raps at night.
We’re proud to offer a fully-integrated, modern barber curriculum to our student body. It caters to the whole man or woman, setting them up for career success from the very first day!
If you want to begin a barbering career and experience the Johnny Matthew’s urban barber culture, then fill out an application (https://www.johnnymatthews.com/apply-now/) and join our team NOW!
Join our new barbering program this Spring and jump start your career. We offer a fast-paced, action-packed program that gets you out on the barber shop floor fast. You’ll learn everything from 0 fades to straight edge shaves. Learn more about our Johnny Matthew’s barbering program and enroll today!
No matter what age you begin your career as a hairdresser, there is always room to grow and expand your path. You can always go higher than your current position, and you can always inspire people around you to do their best and find what their calling is.
You, of course, begin at a cosmetology school to train to get your state license to practice. In the Willamette Valley, there are many to choose from, but why not choose Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School, where we give you exceptional tools and exceptional training you won’t find just everywhere on the West Coast? We train you to cut hair geometrically, so you can create any haircut by combining angles and elevations for success, and give you the know-how to color any head of hair that sits in your chair. Once you have put in your hours and graduated, you are on to the next great thing of life- your own station.
There are a couple of different ways you can rent a station when you are first out in the hairdressing world. You can either lease a station, which is a general rent, or you can have a commission station, which is a little more complicated. Both have pros and cons, but it is up to you to decide which one is better for you while you are at your station in life. You can work behind the chair for years, building up a clientele and beginning to know yourself as a stylist. However, at some point, you may realize you want to be in charge yourself, and you can open a salon of your own.
When opening a hairdressing or barber salon, there are many different choices to think about- whether you want to be on your own or have other hairdressers and barbers work with you, where you want to be located, and what you should offer. Here at Johnny Matthew’s School, we teach you how to successfully run a salon or barber shop from cutting hair, product lines, booking appointments, and furthering your cosmetology education.
You can make this a very lucrative career, so why not call Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School and start the beauty career journey of a lifetime.
With the world constantly changing and evolving, it is hard to say what a person might want to do with the rest of their lives. Most don’t want to be stuck in a cubicle, always in a meeting, or constantly feeling like they have to put their job before their family. People want to be able to enjoy their weekends, be with their family, and work in an open, welcoming environment. Excitingly, a hairdresser or barber can enjoy all of the freedoms above, and then some.
In order to become a licensed professional cosmetologist in the state of Oregon, you have to attend a cosmetology school. At Johnny Matthew’s Hairdressing Training School in Salem, Oregon we teach you how to cut hair geometrically, so you can create any haircut a client could desire. In order to keep your life they way you want it, we offer a 3, 4, or 5 day a week program, so you can keep a job or be with your children if your life has given you the opportunity. We give you the best tools on the market, Babyliss and Ferrari blowdryer, Ferrari clippers, and Hattori Hanzo shears are all included with your introductory kit, along with other tools for you to learn with. We have barbering classes to teach you line-ups, fades, tapers, and any modern twists on old classics to keep you up to date with what is happening in the world around you. We provide hairdressing classes to instruct you on the latest cuts and colors that are taking the world over to ensure you can keep your clients happy.
When you are nearing the end of your career at Johnny Matthew’s, we show you how to build a strong resume and cover letter that will entice potential employers to hire you, highlighting your strengths and providing statistics for you to give. Our graduate placement rate is high, so we know our methods work.
Call Johnny Matthew’s today, and start your fulfilling lifelong career!
