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MONAT WITH DANA BY DANA GAMACHE
My name is Dana M Gamache Steinmetz and I have been a hairstylist for 21 years. I specialize in color and cutting hair in the village of Pittsford, NY at a studio called Higher Ground Colour Studio since December 2011. I have always been a creative person since I was a little girl. It especially amazed me when I would win awards for the artwork I had created. I never really thought of myself to be at that level. I eventually fell in love with hair when I was 12 years old and was even more surprised to learn people would let me do their hair at such a young age!
him. My son at that point was 19 years old. I eventually learned through searching for him myself, phone call after phone call, what no parent would ever want to hear. My son had died in a terrible car accident! As anyone could imagine, that changed my path in life forever! I figured I could either have no hope and fall into despair or reach deep and find the
I thought this is too good to be true! So, as like anyone else, I didn’t give it a thought.
I worked in Irondequoit, NY for about 9 yrs in a couple of salons and ended up on University Ave at Daniel Ward Salon. I loved being downtown in the hustle and bustle. I was very successful with my craft through out the years, until I hit a huge bump in the road.
hope my heart was feeling, and allow what this can teach me.
I was getting ready to start my day at the salon, when I received a phone call from my son’s girlfriend frantically looking for
Especially all the clients that have stuck it out with me through the years, along with my husband, Mark. I am so grateful and lucky!
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I would risk losing clients with every move I had mad. Now, 7 years later, I am proud to say, I have been a successful stylist, colorist, & salon owner. About a year ago, this tall, beautiful woman, Jennifer, walks into my salon with her own shampoo, conditioner, and styling aides. At first, I was kind of bothered by it. She went on about how awesome this hair product is, how it heals the hair from the inside out, and it’s clinically proven to regrow hair!
Fast forward to 1997. Being a single mother of a 6 year old boy and working in the restaurant business to make ends meet, I decided to go back to school at the age of 27. I have always had the nack for hair, so I thought I would give it try. School was very challenging. Bartending 3 nights a week and hair school 5 days a week, I scraped through it! I was bound and determined to make this my career. I just LOVED IT!
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So, about 16 months after my son’s funeral, I decided to open up Higher Ground Colour Studio, in the village of Pittsford. It was so exciting and scarey all at the same time. First beacuase of the investment, and Secondly, because of moving for the fourth time.
I found strength and courage I never knew I had. Plus, I have an incredible support group of family and friends that would help me along the way.
Fast forward six months, and I’m see a couple of posts on Facebook about this Monat produc line. I finally inquired about it. That beautiful young woman, Jennifer, reached out to me, and said she would bring in samples for me to try on my hair and my clients hair. As to my surprise, she brought in full bottle sizes! That impressed me tremendously, because this line is expensive at retail value! Well, it took one wash! My hair totally transformed with one wash! You see, I have dry, brittle, hypo-thyroid hair. I have not been able to grow my hair longer than shoulder length for the past 10 years. Plus, it was thinning out so much, my hairline was receding.