Barbizon Reviews

My daughter's always talked about how she wants to be an actress. We went with Barbizon and enrolling with them was overwhelming. It was a lot to think about and take in. It is expensive but we were fortunate to have family that was able to help us out a little bit. We were excited for the opportunity and everybody's been very kind. I love the teacher that worked a lot with my daughter. She is a very shy child. But when she gets on stage, it disappears. She's more confident now. She's finished and she's able to continue going, but I wish there were more classes offered.

Barbizon has been very beneficial. You learn so many things and it helps to also meet new people and build that self-confidence in yourself with all the different aspects. Doing it one Saturday a month, you're still able to do what you have going on then go to Barbizon. Sometimes it was hard to get ahold of people over the phone about scheduling if I needed to make up a class. But we were able to figure out the times and everything was handled very professionally. Everyone was very respectful as well.

Call and check into Barbozin if you are interested in modeling. Barbizon lets my son learn how to model and helping him find different people.

When my kids were younger, we heard about one that's called Casablanca. We started the journey with them but we didn't go anywhere. We said, "Okay, let's try Barbizon." The staff of Barbizon is wonderful, very supportive and professional. The kids have learned through the classes that they attended a lot of things that I don't know about fashion. We're hoping to be one of the successful ones.

My daughter's overall experience with Barbizon was good. She liked going to the classes and met friends through them. We got some calls a couple of weeks ago about the Passport to Discovery but I don't see where the advancements are with Barbizon as far as people picking you up to do modeling or acting as a job. It's also hard to get in touch with someone when you have questions. You can leave a message and the recording says they would get back with you within 24 hours, but that's not true. You have to call them back two or three days later and leave another message. I got behind on one payment and some guy started calling me and was real rude. Other than that, the people I dealt with one-on-one were real nice.

My son got into the competition and my daughter got into the school. They both learned a lot and it's been a great experience with Barbizon. My son is signed with someone right now and my daughter had a blast. She's now amazing her makeup skills. She did a couple girls’ makeup that were sophomores and got paid for it. Barbizon taught her so much. She also now walks better. They built her confidence up. They did this little competition at the end. She was a runner-up and ended up going to the competition that happened in Florida. She got a couple of callbacks from it, but the school kick started her situation. She loved Barbizon and was very upset when it ended. You can trust Barbizon with your children. They have your children's best interest. It's not a scam so just trust the process and know that your kids are in good hands.

My son completed the class at Barbizon, but he hasn't had any jobs or anything since he completed. He was shy. So, I just wanted to have him be more outspoken and not being so conservative. I just wanted to bring him out more. He was more of a social bunny afterwards. The staff at Barbizon was good. I never had an issue with anybody. Twice, my son had an event and I needed to change the class, and they were able to accommodate. He did the class somewhere else. I would recommend Barbizon.

Josh has been absolutely A-MAZING! He’s gone above & beyond—both before the interview process AND after! He’s answered all 2,456 of my questions & calmed me down when I needed to be. He deserves all the stars!

I selected one star because it won’t let me submit a review with 0 'cause that’s exactly what I would give them! This company is the worst company I have ever dealt with, please read the reviews before signing or agreeing to do any type of business with them. They truly have no heart and do not care about anyone at all! The sole purpose of this company is to pretend to teach or care about your children and use them as bait to receive compensation and place money in their own pockets!

Please refund my money, I was transparent on my financial situation and made aware I went with another/better agency, staffing was very unprofessional when I opposed them. I would have loved to work with you in the future if you didn’t leave such a sour taste in my mouth, please reach out to me so we can sort this out. Thank you.

My friend had her children sign up for Barbizon and had a great experience. When I looked it up, I saw both negative and positive reviews, but more positive and because I had that word-of-mouth, it gave me that extra trust in going for it. We were in the Barbizon and Competition 2024 in Baltimore. It was a little bit confusing, though. They could have set it up a little bit better as far as where parents should go and where the children should go. It wasn't really laid out as great as it could have been. Other than that, we're 100% satisfied. My daughter's confidence is through the roof compared to what she was a year before Barbizon and it gave her that extra edge she needed to pursue her dreams.

My friend talked about Barbizon and she brought us in. My child attended Passport to Discovery in August. We like the competitions and when she signed up for Barbizon Placement, we get updates on the website. Periodically, I visit it and I haven’t found anything that will work for her in our location yet but I just keep hoping. She has had a good time. Because it just happens once a month, it’s stretched out so much. I wish it would be more intense, in a shorter period of time, and just going through the classes would be preferable.

Barbizon has been great. The staff has been super nice. Both of the girls were good, but we can only afford one at the time and the staff were super nice in turning the other one down so I didn’t have to be the bad guy and didn't crush her spirits. Sometimes my kids felt there were older kids in there and them being young, they were only 10, so the range on some of the understandings was a bit different. But all in all, they liked it. It helped with their confidence and speaking.

I did some research on Barbizon and it's been around for over 80 years and they've had a lot of good reviews. They have their bad reviews, but the good outweighs the bad. I know a couple of people personally that went there and it was a great experience. My daughter said she would wanna learn how to be a model and learn into acting. So, we decided to go with Barbizon.

I came across Barbizon many years ago and I had a couple of girlfriends that went to Barbizon. When I read into it a little more, I felt that some of the things that they were teaching would be good for my grandson. So we went ahead and signed him up since he's so handsome. Everything was good. The staff were there, friendly, smiling, and ready to take the kids in as well as to get rid of them when they're done. My grandson was a newbie, and everything was a learning experience. Most of the time, he was excited and glad getting to do things, fixing his hair and putting fingernail polish on. A couple of times it was, "It was really boring."

It's been great with Barbizon. They are always willing to help and their responses are timely. My daughter always came back excited about what she had learned and was always excited to show us.

My daughter would like to be more active in the journey towards becoming a model or an actress. When she went through the classes at Barbizon, they were doing one Saturday a month. But eight hours is not enough to learn what she needs. They can't do it once a month and expect her to hold on and retain that. Workshop needs to be more intense and longer so that she can repeat what she's learned and gain confidence. With practice comes perfection. Her having a little bit more confidence in what she's doing and becoming well versed in what's expected in the walking, the language, the body language, the monologue, it would become second nature the more she does it. I wish our daughter would receive a little bit more support. Because Barbizon is reaching out to such a large number of young ladies, they can't put in that one-on-one. We have to do that through drama classes or modeling support on our own, locally.

My daughter loves Barbizon, and we're looking forward to keep going. My husband and I tried to reach out to Barbizon because our daughter was supposed to have a competition in December. Then we can finish with the program. But there are four video classes that she has to take. They sent us a link. But every time we put the link, we cannot go through for her to finish everything. We tried to get to them to see how they could resend it because they said to put the password. We put whatever they asked, but we still cannot go through for her to take her full video class and to make sure she completes everything. So there's a little confusion right now. Right now, we haven't done anything, and time is passing by because we cannot get to anybody yet.

My daughter is into modeling and acting, so we tried Barbizon to get her a little training and help her maturing down the line. She was dealing with the classrooms for modeling and the Barbizon staff were helpful and kind. They talked to us and they were convenient. They waited there until we were picking the kids up and kept them comfortable, especially my daughter. She's young, so it was awkward for her to have to stay on her own. But she managed to get to it. She's only eight and at that age, she can only take in so much information. So, if there was more information that would have been passed on to me as a parent, then that would have helped. But overall, Barbizon was great. They were able to reach out to me on time and respond to any inquiry I had. They're pricey, but it would go towards a decent cost. They do help with trying to get you in the industry and showing my daughter how to prepare for interviews.

The experience has not been good since my daughter graduated from Barbizon. They offer you this whole big thing, and you pay money. She is supposed to be going to Atlanta and I have called them so many times to find out information. I've left 10 messages. Finally, somebody called me back and said someone would call me back. But it's been over a month and I still haven't heard from her. My daughter loved the classes and came home feeling very positive about herself every time she went. But communication has not been the best even while she was attending the classes. Before they opened the facility, they were using hotels. But to find out what hotels they were in, we weren't getting anything. They left us off a lot of emails and every month when we would go, I would ask them to check it. But she still didn't get the emails. She would miss a lot of Zoom calls and it was an endless battle.

I love Barbizon. It was a great start for me to learn more about modeling and do classes. I participated in the six-month class in Greenville, learning different things, every class we had, and graduated with more knowledge. The staff was very helpful. They were always there when I needed them to teach me anything. They were very uplifting. It wasn't like a mandatory something I had to go to. It didn't feel like it was boring and I was, “I gotta go to this.”

My kid wanted to do Barbizon so we did it. Dealing with the staff was good. But I don’t like that they just let anybody get in the competition at the end without even going through any of it. The one who won a lot of stuff didn’t even go through the class with them so that was a little discouraging.

When I signed in, Barbizon called me and we set up everything. The staff was very good and my daughter got a lot of experience. I love that. She took a course for six months, and they told me when she finished the class, they would find a job for her. But I haven't received anything until now. Her last day was on April 16th. I don't know who to call. When I text them, they tell me it's not the right number. But they called me about a competition in Atlanta for December 15th and I would have to pay $1,100.

My daughter had just decided she wanted to pursue acting and modeling, and I happened to be up in the middle of the night and saw Barbizon's ad on Facebook. I said, "Okay. Let's see what they're talking about." We live in Virginia in the Hampton Roads area, and the young ladies on staff that were working with the people in this region were phenomenal. They really sold it for me. If I had to rate it 1 to 10, I would definitely give it a 10. Everybody was extremely professional, yet personable. They made the experience very enjoyable for my daughter and myself.

I got the six-month classes, and I'm also in Passport to Discovery. I loved all of the staff at Barbizon. When I first got accepted for Passport to Discovery, one of my first phone calls was to Ms. Stephanie to ask her all these questions and she was so helpful. And for the first four classes, we had Ms. Jessica. Love her too. And the guy was funny. I talk a lot more to people that I don't know. It's a good opportunity and fun. I would do it again. I recommended a couple of my friends to see if they could find an Indianapolis one coming up.

At Barbizon, they have amazing customer service. It's such a warm place. They always look out for us and answer all my questions. I already finished the classes and I've been reading the book they gave me.

Barbizon is a good experience for my daughter. We're traveling at the end of the year for a Barbizon competition. I'm looking forward to that. That'll be the first competition that we ever did physically. We had auditions and they've been good. She's been enjoying herself. However, it's expensive. She got the opportunity for the competition at Disney which was too expensive for us to go at that moment. So we had to send that one out. With Atlanta, it's not as expensive but it's still expensive as far as the fees and the traveling.

When my granddaughter was six, she took a modeling course with Barbizon and had a great time doing it. Now, she was drifting into too much of a tomboy attitude. So, I thought we would enroll her so that she could learn about make-up and how to walk and social graces. She did a course where she learned how to do runway walk, how to do makeup, how to do hair and it did positive things about her body. She is in fact going to participate in a competition in June. As far as the staff at Barbizon, they're very pleasant and very responsive if I had any questions. I was particularly impressed with their video interviews.

I was a little bit nervous at first, but walking into the room, everybody was so uplifting and really welcoming. We all kind of worked together and it was a really good environment to be in. My favorite thing that I participated in would have to be the music video that we did. I was put in the dance group portion of that and me and my group were able to come up with super cool outfits and do a little bit of modeling with that as well. It was really fun. The graduation runway show was also really fun. I had a partner with that that I've never really spoken to before, but we really clicked whenever it came to that portion and we were beside each other.

My experience with Barbizon has been one of the best, so far. The help that Barbizon has given me is insurmountable. I wouldn't be able to come as far as I have and would do in the future without them. I'm very grateful for them. My confidence level has been boosted far beyond what it used to be after Barbizon. And I'm smiling more. I have more confidence in myself, too.

Layla participated in all of the classes. She did everything and graduated. She liked it a whole lot. Barbizon had always been pretty helpful and reached out to us by email or by text and helped us with any questions. I haven't had trouble getting ahold of anybody when I've tried to contact them in the past. So it's been good.

My six-month experience at Barbizon was a lot of fun. It was a bumpy start and there was a little more of the bookwork. But when we did activities, I and a lot of other students had the opportunity to open up and really show the growth along the journey, which was amazing. I really liked that the management shifted along the journey as need be and that helped the class big time. Interacting with the class was challenging at first but it was rewarding when you got to know people who wanted to be there. Some of the people didn't per se seem like they wanted to be there. But for the people who were passionate about what they were doing, it was a pleasure interacting with everybody at every class. I took a public speaking class and it helped tremendously as regards Barbizon. I was so ready for the challenge and I might have been nervous at some point, but I knew that I could do it because I had taken this class. And I'm so grateful for it.

The experience I have with Barbizon is great because they taught her a lot. Now, she knows a lot of things she didn't know. Before she started, she wasn't this confident. But now she has gained a lot of confidence. She said it's a great experience for her that's why she keeps pushing forward. She talked about how they taught her a lot even how to take care of her skin, not just acting and the modeling.

The staff at Barbizon is great. All of our interactions have been very pleasant and informative. They're available any time I have any questions. My daughter's confidence has broadened a lot at Barbizon. They made her come out of her shell. At a point of time, I had to withdraw her from her classes. They were very understanding and helped me transition through that.

My son had a wonderful experience with Barbizon. It was fast and it was intense. But it was very informative and purposeful for Jalan. He really enjoyed his journey with Barbizon. They were awesome from start to finish. My son was a part of the Barbizon competition. Every Saturday, once a month, when he would go to those classes, he was treated like royalty. They were always enthused. It was at the hotel.

Everybody has been very nice and courteous. They're very good at answering questions. My daughter enjoyed the classes. But she felt the classes were a little bit too advanced for her. She couldn't always understand everything that was going on. But she's only eight years old. So it's probably has absolutely nothing to do with Barbizon. But she got a lot out of it. Sometimes it's hard for her to stay on task and pay attention. But everybody seems to work with her and get her to do what she was supposed to.

My son liked Barbizon a great deal. They went over etiquette and there was a bunch of different things that he gained from. Because of them having multiple locations, it made it user-friendly. There was one time where we were running late, but they were really good on giving the information and sharing the stuff that they were gonna be going over. Also, it was really easy to reschedule classes, which resulted in us graduating a little bit early. But we were told we would get the placement card and the completion certificate and we wound up not getting it until just recently. That was kind of a surprise, but I know a lot of things have been prolonged with COVID and everything else.

My daughter and I were talking about modeling. She was interested in it a long time ago and I was doing some Google searching on modeling agencies. The one that gave me the most interest was Barbizon because it has so many years, they've had so many clients, and people that have been successful. I wanted to give them a try. The process was really rough going through, but the end result was pretty nice.

My daughter learned a lot from Barbizon. It just seems to get more expensive the longer you stay in it. But initially, we went with them because they were a lot cheaper than the modeling agency that we have in our area, and we liked that it was a lifelong membership. So, she could always go back and redo classes if the industry changes or she forgets things because she's still a little girl now.

My daughter finished the classes. She liked it. I'm just waiting for agencies to call her. Barbizon emailed me agencies and I was supposed to send pictures, which I did. But I haven't heard anything back. Other than that, their staff answered questions.