Higher education for hairdressers.
Limited seats. Live models. The people who trained your favorite educators.
Not a stage show, not an influencer with a ring light. Two days on a working luxury salon and education floor in Rockridge — four HD cameras, a twenty-four-foot screen, proper lighting. We cap the hands-on tickets anyway, because the point is that an educator is watching your hands.
Education anywhere.
In the room, or from your own couch.
Hands-on, in the room
Two full days at Pony Studios in Oakland — a working luxury salon and education floor, four HD cameras, a twenty-four-foot screen, live models and never mannequins.
Hands-on tickets are deliberately limited: group consultation first, then your own chair with an educator over your shoulder. Nobody cuts unwatched. Look & Learn seats sit behind them for anyone who wants the room without the chair.
Pony Education LIVE
Watch from your own couch. Every studio class is streamed live across four cameras and you can ask questions while it happens — or gather your team and host a viewing party on your own salon floor.
Miss it and it lands in the on-demand library with everything else we have taught since 2019. Twenty-nine ninety-nine a month, seven days free.
A hands-on ticket and an app subscription are separate things and we do not pretend otherwise — but every hands-on attendee gets the replay on the app afterwards.
Take a seat in Oakland
September 27, 2026
SHAGS, BOBS, BOWLS, BANGS & BITS with Mischa G + Nicholas Roach + Corinna Hernandez
Pony Studios · 4834 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
- Day 1 & 2 Hands-on $1,000Limited seats
- Day 1 Look & Learn $150Limited seats
- Day 2 Look & Learn $150Limited seats
The Art of Bleach and Color with Daniel Moon
October 25, 2026
Curly Cutting Essentials: Razor + Scissor Techniques with Anyea Garrido and Corinna Hernandez
December 7, 2026
Availability is live and drops as seats sell. Past classes are filtered out automatically. Cannot get to Oakland? Every one of these streams live to app subscribers.
Your favorite educator's educators
Three years Sassoon-trained and enamoured with precision, then she packed for New York enamoured with wanderlust, and landed at Bumble and bumble. Corinna has spent the twenty-five years since collecting the people who taught her — and the people they taught. That is the whole roster. It runs through one room, and she is standing in it.
Twenty years of NYC, Paris and Milan fashion weeks. Pony Studios opened in Rockridge in 2019 with Bumble and bumble founder Michael Gordon cheering her on. — Forbes, 2019
What hairdressers say about it
Take the best educators who freelance because they truly love to teach, add to an intimate setting where you are free to ask as many questions as you like… and get your hands in the hair that day on carefully curated live models. What more do you need?
Lineage, education, experience, eye.
I walked into the class with a million knots in my tum about not knowing how to use or even hold a straight razor and walked out of there like 'who wants a haircut!!? I'm a straight razor queen!'
They know the rules very well and know how to break them! I'm always left inspired after watching their videos, and their online subscription is a wonderful investment/supplement if you can't make it to a hands on class.
It almost feels like I'm right there in the room, and I may actually have a better view!
Real craft hairdressing and hair cutting. This is not a cookie cutter class, a real game-changer. I've been doing hair for 30+ years and I feel like I haven't reached my potential.
As a Bumble & bumble barber salon, we can't find either the time or the diversity of classes from the Meat Packing district of NYC for our stylists. I look to Corinna's classes for inspiration, close to home, to meet our team needs.
Pony education is by cool stylists, for cool stylists. And by cool, I mean hair stylists that are interested in art and history… have a sense of humor and respect for the craft, and want to always learn and grow.
The content was INSANELY inspiring with non-stop information without any boring product knowledge or corporate influence.
Verbatim from post-class feedback forms and from Apple App Store reviews of Pony Education LIVE, trimmed for length only. The 4.9 is the app's App Store rating. Some respondents left an Instagram handle rather than a name.
What comes out of a Pony class
Every head here was cut on a live model at Pony Studios or on the road, by someone who came to learn. Hover any frame for the class it came out of.
Photographed in the room, 2019 to 2026. No stock, no mannequins.
Your floor, your date, your seats to sell
Twenty salons, twelve cities, since 2021. We bring the educators, the curriculum and the cameras. You bring the floor and the date — and you keep the seats you sell.
Do the math
5 of 6
Break even at five seats. Everything after that is yours.
At six hands-on seats per educator, five sold covers a one-day booking. What you get past that is a marquee class in your shop, your own team in the room, and a reason for every stylist in your city to walk through your door.
CutLoose BK, Brooklyn · Gem House, Brooklyn · Strange Bird, Austin · Lost Hills, Los Angeles · Gem Salon, Minneapolis · AMP Studio, Washington DC · Blackroom, Boston · Sweep Salons, Denver · Number 9, St. Petersburg · Love Salon, Portland · Romeo Salon, Portland · Dreamboat Salon, Portland
Thirty-three educators, ten of them here
Every one of them has taught at Pony Studios on live models. The number on each card is how many of their classes are on the app right now.
Corinna Hernandez
Founder and creative lead, Oakland
via a three-year Sassoon apprenticeship, then Bumble and bumble
Founder of Pony. Twenty-five years behind the chair, twelve seasons backstage, and the reason this roster exists.
Michael Gordon
Founder and author, New York
Founded Bumble and bumble in 1977. The room this whole lineage runs through.
Laurent Philippon
Session stylist and author, Paris
via Alexandre de Paris and Bumble and bumble
Represented by Bryant Artists
Bumble and bumble's first Global Artistic Director. Thames & Hudson author.
James Pecis
Session stylist, New York and Paris
via Bumble and bumble
Represented by Bryant Artists
Chanel, Saint Laurent, Thom Browne. Founder of the plastic-free line Blu & Green.
Mischa G
Founder, Treehouse Social Club, New York
via Bumble and bumble
Bumble and bumble veteran. Founder of the East Village's unapologetically queer salon.
Nicholas Roach
Cutter and educator, San Diego
via Sassoon and Bumble and bumble
One of the original Bumble and bumble University educators. The most-watched razor work on the app.
Daniel Moon
Colorist and salon owner, Los Angeles
Founder of HAIR Los Angeles. Color for Kanye West, Madonna and Zoë Kravitz.
Kate Schlichter
Co-founder, Lost Hills, Los Angeles
via Sassoon and Bumble and bumble
Sassoon-trained, Bumble-trained, co-founder of L.A.'s Lost Hills.
Aura Friedman
Colorist, New York
via Bumble and bumble
The colorist behind Lady Gaga's pink and the splashlights trend.
Anyea Garrido
Curl specialist, Alameda CA
Bay Area curl specialist. Educator for Innersense Organic Beauty.
What a hands-on ticket actually buys you
The two days, and everything the two days leave behind.
A chair of your own
Two full days, hands-on tickets capped on purpose. Group consultation first, then your own live model with an educator over your shoulder. Nobody cuts unwatched.
The right to teach it
Take it back to your own floor and teach your team. That is what the Salon Teaching Toolkit is for.
The replay
Every class you attend lands on the app on demand, yours to rewatch while the muscle memory is still forming.
Your work, shot properly
Pro lighting and our own photographer. You leave with images of what you cut — the kind in the gallery above.
A live model
Never a mannequin. We recruit and brief them, so you cut real hair on a real head that answers back.
The room
4834 Telegraph Ave, Rockridge. Four HD cameras, a twenty-four-foot screen, full pro lighting and live stream. Six times Best of Oakland.
Every class we have ever taught
136 classes, Oakland and on the road, since 2019. Almost all of them are on the app right now — where one is still being cut back in, it says so on its own row.
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