Go Beyond Beauty School! The Aveda Institute Metairie students make the world more beautiful with classes in hair, skin and nail care, makeup application and more. You’ll gain hands-on experience to prepare you for a salon career. All courses in our cosmetology training are taught using AVEDA Institute’s approach of experiential learning. Learn by seeing and doing. Classroom time is limited. Practice and play time is abundant. Aveda Institute graduates have won countless awards such as North American Hairdresser of the Year, The Edwin Neill Full Potential Award and Student Hairdresser of the Year, just to name a few of the most prestigious. Aveda Institute graduates are also some of the most influential in the industry, working as platform artists, editorial stylists, artistic directors, makeup artists and AVEDA Global Educators. Some of the most successful salons in the country are owned by Aveda Institute graduates. Established in 1978.