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Yulia
Years as a stylist: 17 years, 9 years Ouidad stylist
Years at Las Olas Beauty: 9
Three words that best describe your cutting style: Precise, creative, individualistic
When my clients leave, I want them to feel: Sexy, beautiful, happy
My biggest inspiration is: The smile on my clients' faces when they leave my chair.
My favorite thing about curls: There is nothing boring about curls. They are never the same, so every client is a new and exciting experience.
My favorite thing about hair: How it can change someone ordinary into someone extraordinary!
The words I live by: Treat others as you would like to be treated.
What inspired you to be a stylist: It's a perfect combination of beauty and art.
My greatest professional accolades or accomplishments: Three TV appearances, doing hair for fashion week in Moscow.
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Chadwick
Years as a stylist: 21
Years at Las Olas Beauty: 5
Three words that best describe your cutting style: Creative, Detailed, Progressive
When my clients leave, I want them to feel: That their hair looks its best and they have the confidence to take on the world.
My biggest inspiration is: A happy and satifsifed client who leaves my presence confident.
My favorite thing about curls: That they possess the ability to be playful, sexy, full or texture, deconstructed and feminine.
My favorite thing about hair: Its ability to transform one's image.
The words I live by: I'm only as good as my last haircut. I approach each haircut like it is my last and ask myself if I am satisfied with the results.
What inspired you to be a stylist: As a young boy I understood how styling hair would nurture my creative nature.
My greatest professional accolades or accomplishments: Working as a senior designer for and with Rusk. Also, having the experience of working on and with artist in the country music and Christian music industry. |
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Robert
Years as a stylist: 31 years as a colorist and stylist
Years at Las Olas Beauty: 5
Three words that best describe your cutting style: Feminine, polished, precise
When my clients leave, I want them to feel: Like they are on top of the world.
My biggest inspiration is: I draw inspiration from everything around me: people, nature, etc.
My favorite thing about hair color: How it can bring out a person's true personality or create a new image.
My favorite thing about hair: How it can help a person reflect the different facets of their personality.
The words I live by: Treat others as you would like to be treated.
What inspired you to be a stylist: I grew up in a family of hair stylists.
My greatest professional accolades or accomplishments: Owning my own business for seven years and building a tremendous reputation from my color work. |
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Donald
Years as a stylist: Two inspiring years which includes a six-month apprenticeship with TIGI Ambassador Cecilia Geraci and three months with Sean Donaldson of Sean Donaldson Hair in Miami Beach.
Three words that best describe your cutting style: Manageable, fun, detailed
When my clients leave, I want them to feel: I want my clients to feel that they can do their hair at home without any problem and confident to come back again and again.
My biggest inspiration is: I’m not one to follow the celebrities, so my inspiration comes from my clients. They know their hair and what works. I will give my professional opinion, but in the end, they inspire me to give them what they want.
My favorite thing about hair: My favorite thing about hair is my clients entrusting me when they sit in my chair. I realize, just as much as they do, that it takes trust to work with a new stylist. It takes a team, and a team is built on trust.
The words I live by:
There are two quotes that I live by…"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
-George Bernard Shaw and
"Everything I understand, I understand because I love."
-Leo Tolstoy
What inspired you to be a stylist: I don’t limit myself and want to learn as much as I can. No matter what I do, I give my all and right now, that is hair.
My greatest professional accolades or accomplishments:
I’ve only scratched the surface and will never know this until I can tell my grandkids where I have gone and what I have done.
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This page is dedicated to my good friend and employee, Ash Cardone, whose quirky sense of humor, creative flair and genuine kindness helped me through many salon situations. His spirit will always resonate at Las Olas Beauty.
-Elaine Ochtera, Owner
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