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SEARCHThis busy stylist at B2V Salon in West Hollywood, California, is best known for her extension work. As a member of Great Length’s education team, she travels the country teaching the latest in application and trends.
Nanci Lee
This busy stylist at B2V Salon in West Hollywood, California, is best known for her extension work. As a member of Great Length's education team, she travels the country teaching the latest in application and trends.
MY PERSONAL STYLE: Funky casual
MY HAIR RIGHT NOW: Has multidimensional layers of color in golds and deep oranges with accents of yellow blonde. I also have extensions with those shades and shades of deep wine red and cadmium red light.
WHAT I WEAR TO WORK: B2V Salon is in a historic bungalow, so our dress code is casual. I usually wear either denim, slacks or skirts with boots.
WHAT I WEAR ONSTAGE: I try to keep my own style and just kick it up a notch. I especially love mixing masculine and feminine pieces-a camisole with a masculine jacket or a men's tie with a girly blouse, etc.
MY FAVORITE ACCESSORIES: I love jewelry-especially necklaces and earrings. I often create my outfit around one of my favorite pieces. This season, I am crazy about fingerless gloves and gauntlets.
WHY I LOVE EXTENSIONS: When I first started doing extensions, I felt like a miracle worker. The options are endless: lengthening, volumizing, altering or enhancing a haircut-the artistry is up to you.
MY FIRST EXTENSION EXPERIENCE: I was lucky enough to have a client who was a very willing volunteer. Her hair turned out great; I take it for granted now but being able to transform someone with extensions is an exhilarating experience.
MY BEST EXTENSION STORY: My work on Extreme Makeover has to be my best extension experience. Every participant's story was so moving. It was deeply rewarding to be part of a team that transformed people inside and out.
I AM INSPIRED BY: Everything from great artwork to movies and great food. By getting out into the world and exploring new things, I bring back my research to the salon so my clients can have one big sensory experience.
MY MENTOR: Frida Kahlo and Louise Nevelson for their strength and creativity, John Lennon for speaking his truth and Pema Chodron for her inspirational words. As far as hairdressers, I have always held Yosh as someone I aspire to be like. He developed a simple and brilliant system for treating hair as sculpture and I appreciate the way he treats others with love and respect.
I BECAME A HAIRDRESSER BECAUSE: I was working in an office part time when one of my coworkers who had grown up in a salon environment, suggested I become a hairdresser. I chatted with my own hair stylist and the father of a high school friend who owned a chain of salons. They all encouraged me and shared with me the many advantages of working in the beauty industry. So I quit college and enrolled in beauty school, eventually finishing my degree years later. I am so grateful I had enough sense to listen to my friend-I love this fun and crazy ride called hairdressing!
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