About Me

At 16 I went to beauty school in Seattle At Broadway Beauty College. When I was 18 I was teaching as a "cadet" at the beauty school. I was a student instructor. I decided not to take a job as an instructor because I felt I needed salon experience before I could be an instructor at a beauty school.

It's been over 27 years that I've been in this business now. I worked for a few salons in Washington at first, but I wanted to go to California and do hair because the styles were more impressive.

1989

In order to follow my quest to be a great hairdresser, I moved to Las Vegas for 4 months, and then to California when I was 21 because I wanted to work in Beverly Hills. In 6 months I found an apprentice position with Salon Guiseppe Franco in Beverly Hills. I became an assistant after being a stylist. It was very humbling and a test for my attitude. Giuseppe Franco taught me a million things I didn't even know I didn't know.

When I worked for Giuseppe Franco in 1990, I realized that I really didn't know as much as I thought I did. They put me through the ringer and forced me to be a great hairdresser. I shampooed, applied color, did blow-drys, held the hair in parted sectioned while the stylists cut, sprayed the hair with water for them while they cut even. I held the foils on the head when they did a foil. I wasn't allowed to look away for a second or I'd get yelled out. Its a good experience to be pushed hard in order to realize your potential. Classes every day, extensive hands on every week, color class after color class, different cutting techniques from Vidal Sassoon to Sebastion and everything every other stylist knew too. I met interesting people, had a lot of fun, and never got in trouble.

Next, I could not pass up the opportunity to work at another great salon in Beverly Hills, Salon Cristophe. At that time, Cristophe has the highest price haircut in town, that I knew about. There, I worked for an Israeli hairdresser named Sami. He taught me the smoothest way to blow dry thick, frizzy hair into shiny silk.

1992

This year I went back to college at Santa Monica College part time and was working for Max in Westwood, LA. He was a Persian hairstylist. In Iran, you have to study 6 years before getting your own chair. We were doing a lot of hair shows together. Hair for runway, concerts, exhibitions, beauty shows, model competitions, commercials, and more. Being involved in hair shows is my favorite. Here, I learned how to really whip up some nice hairstyles, updos and really fun things for the shows.

1994

The Northridge Earthquake knocks me out of bed January 17th, at 4:31am. By April I was back in the Seattle area where my family lives. I went through a drove of salons and went to college. I studied business, Multimedia, Fine Arts, Dance, Scriptwriting, Web Design, Animation, Sound Editing, and some other things and so on. I have a 3.8 GPA.

In May, 2003, I joined up with Lanza International as an educator. Lanza is a very nice line of shampoo and products that uses all natural ingredients and do not cook their formula. A bit later, L'Oreal swiped me away.

I was part of the L'Oreal Professionell Artistic Team. With L'Oreal, I was a color educator, teaching color and advanced techniques in salons. Also, I styled hair for the L'Oreal shows, had the opportunity to work with some of the best portfolio artists of all in the country, like Jo Blackwell owner of the Dop Dop salon in SoHo New York, Micheal McCune from Brassfields in Tacoma, Robert Dibartola from BC, and Carlo Novoa of West Hollywood, just to name a few.

Here are the L'Oreal National Sales Conference Pictures from January 2004 in Las Vegas.

2007

Now I own my own salon in the Seattle area, in Federal Way, WAshington. I work one week every month in Beverly Hills, California and doing private clients in Los Angeles area.

2008

My salon is just about finished with a complete makeover. It has 6 roomy private rooms, all new colors, floors, tile, and so on. The salon is private from onlookers or noisy hairdressers while you get your hair extensions done. It is going on it's third year in business. I'm looking forward to that.

2009

It's the start of a new year. I'm designing my own product line to be out when it's good and ready, building a photography studio to be done soon and traveling more for hair. I added New York as a regular stop where I will be returning to do hair extension clients.

March 2009

I've been searching the planet for the very best materials to create my new products with. I've been invited to Italy to work with an Italian hair extension manufacturer. In my research, they have the most impressive hair extensions technology I've seen so far. It's not even available in the USA yet. I hope to tell more if all goes well.

My team at the salon is growing stronger. Stephanie is my new colorist. She is also the most well trained hair extension artist in town. I'm also working in new assistants, so there should be someone in the salon in case I never return from Italy.