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“I have always been a free spirit and making plans was never something I did well.
I was born in a small village in Cyprus to an English mother and a Greek father and when I was five we moved to London, England.
After finishing school, I apprenticed for five years as a hair stylist & colour technician, even becoming a hair model for Vidal Sassoon. How funny…I’m still working with brushes and colour, but just in a different way! I guess it was meant to be?
During that time, I moonlighted for two years as a film extra and met some amazing actors; the highlights being Katherine Hepburn , Noel Coward and Sir Alec Guiness; who, at the end of filming on the set of “Our Man in Havana”, kissed my hand and told me he knew that I would excel in whatever path I chose to take!
The path I chose was to emigrate to a land of opportunity, Canada! The timing could not have been better. It was the early 60′s…The British Invasion…The Beatles…and FLOWER POWER. I was destined to be a flower child!
I opened my own beauty salon & boutique on Yonge Street and since money was in short supply, there were to be no new shiny arborite counters or chandeliers. Instead, I went to the Salvation Army Store and bought beautiful antique furniture, which I painted in bright colours. And there was music!
Well…it took off and soon became the new “IN ” place to be in Toronto. In fact, I was the first woman ever to cut men’s hair! The salon was a great success and very exciting.