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Karrie Fonte
Matrix Ambassador
Matrix
First job in beauty: Allen Edwards Salon, Woodland Hills, CA, 1992
Licensed: West Valley Occupational Center, 1992
Three highlights of your career:
My current position would be one of my highlights. It is a role that was created just for me to allow me. I am the first ever Ambassador. I spend my “work” time face to face with fellow stylists and future stylists sharing my passion, love and experiences either at shows or at intimate events. I bring them into our family and I thank and spread the love to existing family members.
Prior to my current role I was the AVP US Education with Matrix. I was responsible for our 500 Artistic Educators and all education in the US. I attainted this high profile role with one of the largest manufactures in the industry through my dedication, life experience and beliefs of supporting fellow stylists. I accomplished this with a cosmetology license and a high school diploma in my hand.
The moment I realized I loved educating. I was a successful stylist behind the chair, working 4 days a week and training an assistant. The salon I worked in had a rule that if you had an assistant you needed to teach the class at least once. I taught foiling and loved it. My joy at educating must have shone through and I was asked to continue teaching the assistants. I then pursued a formal way of educating and become a Clairol Partner in Color and a LOGICS Guild Educator and untimely joined Matrix full time 18 years ago.
Beauty legend you admire: Ann Mincey. When I was a brand new stylist, I had my license for maybe 3 years I met Ann at an event. She had the most beautiful red hair I had ever seen My current position would be one of my highlights. It is a role that was created just for me to allow me. I am the first ever Ambassador. I spend my “work” time face to face with fellow stylists and future stylists sharing my passion, love and experiences either at shows or at intimate events. I bring them into our family and I thank and spread the love to existing family members.
Choose beauty because: I don’t know any other industry where women are so prevalent in powerful positions while still touching the members of it with their human side, nurturing their creative souls and helping them to imagine all they can be.
Quote or mantra: I believe you have to give it away to keep it.
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The Professional Beauty Association and Pivot Point team up to develop an ongoing study that measures the confidence of salon owners, stylists, school owners, and students.
This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
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Sponsored by BeautyWorld Dubai
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Mireya Villarreal, founder of From Chair to Boss™, is bringing together beauty industry leaders for a new one-day educational event designed to help salon professionals strengthen the business side of their careers. From Chair to Boss Live! will take place September 28 at the Hilton Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Salon owner, tech founder, and educator Universe Walker will bring her signature workshop, The Art of Dry Cutting, to Brooklyn on July 20, offering stylists a chance to deepen their understanding of shape, movement, texture, and dry cutting.
As part of our ongoing commitment to sharing resources that help beauty professionals stay informed, we thought it was worth introducing our audience to The Chatter and the unique perspective it brings to industry conversations.
Celebrating 60 years in haircare, Dippity-Do is honoring its styling heritage with its Girls with Curls collection, a reimagined Light Hold Gelée inspired by the brand's original 1965 styling gel.
Covet & Mane has expanded its Pro Color System with the launch of Color Boost Drops, completing what the company says is the first professional color system engineered specifically for hair extensions.
