Introducing Style It Forward: 100% of Our Student Salon’s Net Proceeds Help Reduce Student Tuition

At Paul Mitchell The School Provo, we say a lot about putting our students first. Starting July 1, 2026, and running through December 31, 2026, we’re doing something that proves it.

It’s called Style It Forward, and the idea is simple: 100% of the net proceeds our student salon earns goes back to our students as institutional grants that lower their cost of attendance. 

This is another initiative to make good on our commitment to put our students first.

Why we’re doing this

Here’s the truth: our students are the salon. Behind every chair, every color, every cut is a Future Professional building real skills on real guests. Without them, there is no student salon.

If our students create the value, shouldn’t they share in it?

Style It Forward is our answer. Instead of the student salon’s net proceeds sitting on the school’s books, 100% of it goes back into grants that help lower our students’ tuition. 

How it works

1. Net proceeds go into a grant fund. Each month, 100% of the student salon’s net proceeds are pooled into an institutional grant fund.
2. Qualifying students share it. The fund is split among the students who qualify for that month.
3. Applied to each eligible student’s tuition. Each eligible student’s grant is prorated based on how many hours they attended school for the month and the grant applied to their tuition by the 21st of the following month.

To qualify in any given month, a student needs to do two things: attend and clock hours that month, and meet attendance and academic requirements (Satisfactory Academic Progress, or SAP; see the catalog for details). A student who withdraws partway through a month isn’t included for that month.

Because the grant comes from the salon’s actual results, the amount will vary month to month. It is not a guaranteed sum, but what is guaranteed is the commitment: whatever net proceeds the student salon generates, all of it goes back to the students.

What “Student Salon Net Proceeds” actually means

Here’s our transparent calculation of “Student Salon Net Proceeds”:

In plain terms: we take what the student salon brings in from services, retail products, and guest memberships, subtract the direct costs of running it (product and refunds, call center and front desk, marketing), and share 100% of what’s left with our qualifying students as credit toward tuition.

A guest’s visit becomes a student’s opportunity

Style It Forward also changes what it means to book a service with us. Every color, cut, facial, or nail set performed in our student salon isn’t only a great service at a student-salon price, it’s a direct contribution to the education of the Future Professional behind the chair.

For our guests, that’s a chance to be part of something bigger than an appointment. The time you spend in our chair helps fund the next generation of artists, right here in Utah County. Book a service and become part of the story.

Three more ways we put our students first

Style It Forward is the newest way we put students first, but it isn’t the only one.

1. We pay you back for your state board exams. State testing is an expense most students don’t see coming. Share your passing score and placement info, and we reimburse the cost of your state board tests.
2. Real support, fully covered. We pay for every student to be enrolled in BPA Health, where you can get mental health, financial, and legal support from certified, qualified providers at no cost to you.
3. You’re never trapped by tuition. Life happens. If you ever need to step away, you only pay for the hours you were scheduled to attend up to that point, not your full tuition. 

Come see it for yourself

If you’re thinking about beauty school, consider a school that puts its students first. We’d love to show you our campus, introduce you to our team, and walk you through what your education could look like here.

• Future students: Request information or book a campus tour, and a Provo admissions advisor will reach out within one business day.
• Guests: Book a service in our student salon and become part of the story.
• Media and partners: We’re glad to talk about how Style It Forward works and why we built it.

Your education story starts here. Let’s style it forward, together.

FOR MEDIA

About Paul Mitchell The School Provo: Serving Utah County since 1982, Paul Mitchell The School Provo offers programs in cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, nail technology, and lash and brow artistry from its campus at The Mix at River’s Edge. The school is accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts & Sciences (NACCAS).

Media contact: Call us at 385-452-7066

Style It Forward is a temporary institutional grant program at Paul Mitchell The School Provo, starting July 1, 2026 and ending December 31, 2026. It is open to all enrolled students who clock hours during the applicable month and who are meeting the school’s satisfactory academic progress requirements at the end of the month. Eligible students include those who graduate in a particular month, and students do not need to be participating in the student clinic instruction to be eligible. Grant credits are institutional financial assistance funded by monthly student salon net proceeds; they are not wages, compensation, or payment for services, and participation does not create an employment relationship. Credits depend on actual student clinic results and student eligibility. Grants are calculated based on the clock hours attended by students each month. Grant amounts vary, are not guaranteed, and may be zero. Credits are non-cash, non-transferable, and applied to eligible charges on the student ledger. Any monthly grant amounts are posted to a student’s ledger no later than the 21st day of the following month. Paul Mitchell The School Provo is accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts & Sciences (NACCAS).