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There’s nothing like the feeling of getting your hair freshly highlighted, cut, and blow-dried to smooth, silky perfection. It’s a major confidence booster and makes me feel on top of the world. After my most recent appointment at Rita Hazan’s Upper East Side salon, I strutted out onto the street truly feeling like a supermodel. I mean, it’s kind of hard not to feel this way when my hair had just been done by the same woman who does Beyoncé’s hair.
Rita Hazan discovered her passion for hair at a young age and decided to make a career out of it. At 17, she enrolled in beauty school, and after mastering styling, she realized she was most passionate about color. Her goal was to work for Oribe after graduating, and to no one’s surprise, she landed the gig and worked under the brand’s master colorist for more than five years. This is where she learned to color natural and textured hair types. “No one could get these hair types light without it turning brassy. That became my specialty,” she says. This helped Hazan build her celeb clientele early on. Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez were a couple of the first, and now, she has added Beyoncé, Sydney Sweeney, and Jessica Simpson, among others, to her roster.