The beauty industry has never felt a shortage of female disruptors. While this industry has grown dramatically in all these years, people behind the chair have practically made it all possible. Amidst this, women innovators have played a major role in adding bells and whistles to this booming industry. From their dynamic presence to their personalised approach, and from their knowledge to leveraging experience for the best, their contribution to the beauty industry has made everything effortless and efficient. We have listed down such top women of the beauty industry who keeps adding a fresh wave of innovation to it!
Diana Ku RN
Diana Ku RN is making waves as founder and owner of MedbeautyRN, a skin treatment clinic in Ann Arbor, MI. She specializes in neurotoxin and dermal filler. She started her journey at 18, working as an aesthetician and fulfilled her goal of becoming a licensed RN to start her own business. She has an extensive background in dermatology, anatomy and physiology of the face, trichology, and reconstruction of the face. Diana has trained and worked alongside some of the industries leading injectors as well as companies. She started her educational aesthetics company Aesthetics Midwest Training in 2018 and has been helping pave the way for other healthcare professionals into Aesthetics.
“Being in the industry for over 15 years has given me a better understanding of not only people but for this artistry and how to achieve the best aesthetic outcomes for patients. I fall in love with my job again almost daily and can’t believe that this is the life I get to lead.” – Nurse Dee
Camille Karalekas
Camille Karalekas, the fearless founder and creator of Blush Med Spa has so much gratitude for the empowering community she has created around her Spa. Camille has dedicated over 19 years to non-invasive cosmetic aesthetics. As this is a newer, growing industry, her vision is to bridge the gap between generations. Camille prides herself in understanding the difference between volume replenishment and aesthetic facial balancing versus enhancing. We do not try to change the face, but restore youthfulness and enhance your beauty. Camille remains active in furthering her education by partaking in advanced training courses for her and the team to ensure our clients receive the best care in the industry. We currently have two locations in Connecticut, and also established the Blush Institute of Aesthetics to create a platform to teach other clinical providers safe techniques. The goal of Blush Med Spa is to give confidence to all of our clients to match their internal beauty.
Harmeet Lota
Harmeet, founder of Beauty by Meet, with the inspiration to create a spa and salon where guests could come in and unwind themselves from their daily hustled life while getting their services done in a calm and relaxing ambience.
Beauty by Meet is more than just another beauty service provider – it’s about listening to the guest’s needs and customizing individual treatments while recommending the best possible solution to achieve their beauty goals. Harmeet emphasizes on beauty being a journey towards self-improvement and not an end goal.
During the pandemic, Harmeet saw that beauty was a tool women could use to empower themselves and feel confident in their own skin. Through Beauty by Meet, she has been working tirelessly to offer education on how guests can maintain healthy skin at home through virtual consultations as well as online courses-helping people find empowerment from within no matter what life throws at them.
Stacey Smoker
Stacey Smoker spends every day challenging the “norms” of the beauty industry, as a Salon Owner, an Educator, and a National & International competitor.
Her brand, Stacey Smoker Hair & Co. is just one example of how she is challenging and disrupting the “beauty status quo”. Her salon concept is a bridge between “traditional salon” and salon suites that aims at enhancing the entire lifestyle of ALL its patrons, guest, and stylist alike. Her approach to her salon culture and team development is making waves. In each challenge she sees an opportunity to ask, “how can we do this better?” Stacey has sought inspiration from other industries and business models outside of beauty to create a fresh approach to beauty industry leadership.
Stacey’s “Covid Pivot” was extreme, 2019 ended in a 100 sq ft suite, alone. By Oct. 2020 she had fearlessly quadrupled her salon space and began providing a safe luxurious environment for independent stylists, staff, and guests. The next phase is launching in September 2021!
Andrea Orsi
Andrea Orsi inherited her passion for hair from her family. From this passion has grown a unique salon offering the very best in style, service and product.
The outstanding work from Andrea and her team comes from a focus on constant education, enabling them to offer fashion-forward looks gained by learning from world-class stylists and educators.
Andrea Orsi Beauty Lounge started strong and grew quickly due to superior attention to their clients’ needs. New clients constantly seek out the salon, some through recommendations and some through social marketing and online presence, but they return because of the delivery of total beauty, amazing service and luxurious surroundings.
Believing that clients should look and feel beautiful every day, Andrea and her team have developed a line of high-quality products, used on all clients in the salon and available for use at home. Andrea says: “If we need it then our clients need it to create that salon look every day.”
This incredible journey of hard work and success is not over. With a second location in the works, people are watching. Check in to Andrea Orsi Beauty Lounge to see where you can experience more of this amazing degree of excellence.
Pam Chaney
Pam Chaney is the founder, owner and director of Pam Chaney Aesthetics located in Elkhart Indiana. Pam is a Registered Nurse, BSN, MSN, Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist, and Medical Esthetic Practitioner Certified. She is a National Trainer and faculty member for Galderma as well as a PDO thread trainer. Pam takes pride in educating others on the safety and efficacy of her procedures. Pam’s passion for aesthetics first started when working alongside plastic surgeons in the OR. Her social platforms have grown exponentially and has awarded her with the 100 Best Aesthetic Injectors in America for three years in a row. She was featured in USA Today in 2016 and continues staying abreast of cutting edge technology. She is well known for strategically placing fillers in combination with lasers and microneedling to turn back the ageing clock.
Megan Ward
Megan Ward is the Owner of Luxe Salon & Luxe Medi Spa. At Luxe Salon and Spa, they are confident you will have a luxurious experience in the most complete Hair and Beauty Salon and Medical Spa in Spokane. Their education-focused hair artists provide superior service with attention to the needs and goals of all of their clients while their growing Medical Spa services add to the convenience of achieving desired beauty and health goals. Luxe. Salon & Spa offers a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere and high-end feel with reasonable prices for our clients to walk away with their dream beauty styles. They love seeing all of the transformations that start with their client’s visions!
Isabel Santos
Isabel Santos, a young entrepreneur from Toronto, is disrupting the aesthetics industry as the Founder of Crane Aesthetics. Her agency partners with Medical Spa and Aesthetic Clinic owners across all of North America to support them with new client opportunities and all things sales/growth. Isabel has an incredible drive and passion for client success. After consulting with dozens of Aesthetic Practice Owners, she recognized the need for a robust growth system that could not only be comprehensive enough but one that could also guarantee their results. This is what led her to develop the G.L.O.W Program: her done-for-you, ROI-driven way of growing practices which is giving Crane Aesthetics an edge that other agencies may find difficult to compete with in the future. Known for her creativity and results-driven approach, her goal is to create an impact in the lives of aesthetic business owners and the industry as a whole.
Lisa Marie Blair
Lisa Marie is a certified medical aesthetician with over 15 years of experience who focuses on a result-oriented approach.
The secret behind Hollywood North’s most flawless faces, Lisa Marie has worked with the cast of productions such as The Good Doctor, Superman & Lois, Riverdale, and Nancy Drew to name a few.
Her philosophy? -Everyone can have great skin. For her, boosting a client’s self-esteem by clearing up their complexion is extremely gratifying. Regardless of the skin concerns of the patient; Lisa Marie is able to transform their troubled skin into healthy, glowing skin.
In the summer of 2013, Lisa Marie fulfilled her entrepreneurial dream and opened The SkinGirls Medical Spa in Vancouver Canada where a marriage between effective ingredients and technologies brings noticeable results. The SkinGirls offer treatments such as customized facials, LED light therapy, laser treatments as well as a retail space consisting of her favorite products including her own SG SkinEdition products, which have appeared in Us Weekly.
Lorry Green
It started with a dream than an idea. After five years behind the chair, Lorry needed something more. She needed direction and knew others did too. She desired a clear, guided, lucrative career path for herself and other eager, willing, and passionate hairdressers. After looking into options, Lorry decided she could create a family-like salon culture with limitless boundaries. A salon home where like-minded hairstylists, new and seasoned, can make and conquer career and life goals while finding the balance they all desired.
Lorry’s vision paired with a solid plan led to her dream becoming a reality. She took a risk and opened her first salon in 2006. Creatives on her team make a lucrative living doing what they love – connecting with others and creating beautiful hair! Lorry has provided a career trajectory for 150+ cosmetologists in her now 4 Washington State salon locations. Stay tuned! There’s no stopping now!
Chantel Thyfault
Chantel Thyfault hit the ground running from day one in her esthetics career, creating her brand 5280 Lashes located in Littleton, CO. Her beauty journey began in September 2018, where she worked endlessly to master her craft while in school for her state license. Within this short time, she has managed to form a flourishing business with a solid audience and a respectable reputation, giving thanks to her unique style and stand-out work. She is 100% self-taught, which helps her to experiment with different styles and sets, allowing her to provide a customized experience for each client that she has. Through dedication, grit and an eagerness to master her craft, she has managed to be featured in two magazines, forms a lash supply line and mentor aspiring artists and entrepreneurs alike in her field. She believes that gaining the trust of an audience is the key to successful business ownership.
Laara Raynier
Laara Raynier is ranked #1 worldwide for haircutting education because she is one of a kind! Her dynamic positive energy, coupled with her “incredible eye” and unique expertise, makes her THE authority on precision haircutting. Her pedigree comes from being the protege of the legendary Roger Thompson, whom she worked with as a top stylist and educator at Barneys NYC.
She is a trendsetter and artist, obsessed with building higher standards in hair education. Raynier is the ultimate teacher, she cares. Her goal and gift is to teach infallible skills. To motivate and empower stylists to “speak up and make suggestions” to tell their clients what will suit them and then using her techniques, create a fabulous tailor-made precision haircut, which makes their clients look amazing. She brings her 30-year career to Mastercutter Academy. Stylists from all over the world come to NYC to train with her. She has been featured in Vogue, Allure and Marie Claire.
Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith the Australian owner and founder of Cosmetic Skin Co is an up-and-coming entrepreneur creating flawless skin, proving she is one to look out for in the Beauty Industry 2021.
Cosmetic Skin Co, one of Australia’s newest Boutique Skin Clinics located in Bulleen Melbourne will shortly, if not already be the name on everyone’s lips.
Lisa Smith, a Dermal Therapist having studied skin science, is driven and has a strong vision with the aim to ensure clients feel more confident with their skin. Accomplishing and demonstrating just that!
Cosmetic Skin Co offers quality skin treatments using State-Of-The-Art Laser Technology, Skin Tightening, LED Phototherapy, IPL, and Skin Peels while stocking a selection of results-driven cosmeceutical skincare, beauty, and hair care products also available to purchase on the website shop with the option of afterpay and shipping Australia wide.
Cosmetic Skin Co, Melbournes boutique skin clinic creates an impeccable impression of elegance, professionalism and on entry, you’ll be engulfed by a relaxing harmonious ambience.
Angel Turlington
Angel Turlington (WHNP) is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging as well as the International Association of providers in Aesthetic Medicine. As the owner of Southeast Medspa, Angel’s main interest is to assist men and women in maintaining a youthful appearance without looking as if they have undergone any cosmetic enhancement. Angel promotes health, nutrition, and wellness to her clients with a focus on preventative and corrective treatments.
Angel has trained with The Injectability Institute in LA and holds national accreditation as a Master Injector, Aesthetic Laser Operator, and Aesthetic Nurse. Angel is one of an elite few that specializes in multiple non-surgical aesthetic services such as the PDO Thread Face Lift, Sculptra Butt Lift, and QWO Cellulite Treatments. Angel understands the art of aesthetics and constantly continues to grow her portfolio with innovative products and services at Southeast Medspa and Wellness Center located in Clayton, North Carolina!
Shonda Sharee
Shonda Sharee is the creator and head beauty in charge of Boujee Hair Salon in Wilmington, DE. She has been a hard-working and skilful hairstylist for over 15 years but has dedicated the last 5 years to solely focusing on hair extensions. Her love of hair and for her clientele inspired her goal to help women with hair loss through a safe and subtle manner that allowed them to feel confident and fabulous. This motivated her specialization in the microbead braid less method of installing hair extensions. She also aspires to help fellow hairstylists who love extensions become more confident and successful in their business working with their dream clients. Currently, she is working and expanding the Boujee Hair brand on multiple fronts, including doing just that, curating an educational platform, both virtually and in-person, teaching her expertise on microbead and I-tip methods for those eager to learn. Additionally going the extra mile to expand the Boujee Hair empire by selling her Boujee Hair Luxury extension line featuring luxury textured hand-tied & I-tip wefts.
Final Thoughts
These women have revolutionised the industry in a matter of time. As the most powerful females of the space, they have been able to introduce trending styles, diversity and self-acceptance in the beauty industry. We are proud of these women for going out and making their remarkable place in the world. The beauty industry is better with them.
