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MEET our team
Our team of stylists are well educated and stay up to date with modern trends. Each stylist has their own niche talents but are all well diverse in many types of hair. Our team will always include an apprentice as we believe in training young blood to become successful, knowledgeable hairstylists within our studio. Check out our profiles to get to know more about us.
Krista
Studio owner
Senior Hairstylist/barber
BABE Extension Certified
18 years experience; 15 with Twisted
Specialty: Barbering, corrective coloring, long hair cutting and styling
Krista has been a senior stylist for Twisted Banana since the doors opened in 2009, and has been the studio owner for the past 10 years. Krista has been a well diverse hairstylist over the years having a wide variety clientele. She loves extensive color corrections as transforming unfortunate "dye jobs" and making them look expensive and beautiful is quite rewarding. Barbering has been a strong passion for her as well, over half her clientele come for clean cuts, fades and beard trims. In 2017, Krista traveled, alongside Allie, to Holland to attend a 3-day barbering course with the famous Schorem barbers of Rotterdam learning the traditional art of hair cutting and styling. Krista recently sparked a renewed interest in hair extensions as she and Randi attended the BABE Mastery Extension course in hopes to offer new techniques of hair care to her clientele.
Accepting new clients? No
allie
Senior Hairstylist/barber
14 years experience; 10 with Twisted
Specialty: Blonding/foiling techniques, barbering and vivids
Allie has been a busy senior stylist at Twisted for almost 10 years! Although she is a diverse stylist, she has a particular love for all blonding services such as balyage, foiliage, baby lighting and lived-in looks, and she would love to take on more clients who fall into this category. On the opposite spectrum, Allie also adores a good neon/pop color project such as bold, bright, multi-colored looks including any color of the rainbow. Barbering has been a large part of her experience as well. You will see her working on her fades, tapers, and beard cleanups on a daily basis. In 2017, Allie traveled to Holland, along side Krista, to attend a 3-day barbering course with the famous Schorem barbers of Rotterdam, learning the traditional art of cutting and styling. You will also catch her posting to and managing our social media pages in hopes to engage more with our community!
Accepting new clients? Yes
randi
Senior Hairstylist
BABE Extension Certified
17 years experience; 9 with Twisted
Specialty: Curly hair, short textured cuts, extensions and hair loss solutions
Randi has been in the industry for 15 years, and anyone who knows her will say she absolutely loves anything beauty related, and she is always willing to learn something new. This girl has experience in hairstyling, eyelash extensions, micro-blading, waxing, tinting, hair extensions, perming, chemical smoothing, and was even a successful hair competitor for many years. Randi is known to be very talented in curly hair care and is sure to send you home with plenty of tips and tricks for your locks. Hair loss solutions is a passion for Randi as she offers a variety of options to cater to your hairs' needs such as product recommendations and hair extensions. Randi recently expanded her knowledge by completing the Babe Mastery Extension course along side Krista, and she is ready to take on more clients of this interest! Randi is also willing to take on new curly hair clients as she specializes in curly techniques. A curly hair appointment with Randi will include your cut, wash, style plus educating you on how to take care of your curls at home with the appropriate products. This visit will be 1-1.5 hours at $90.
Accepting new clients? New curly clients only
jackie
Senior Hairstylist
13 years experience; 9 with Twisted
Specialty: Personalised haircuts, lived-in commercial colors and updo's
Jackie joined the Twisted family in spring of 2015 and has been a loyal team member ever since! Jackie loves the ability to make personalized changes to your hair that best suits you and helps increase your confidence! She enjoys the challenge of intricate, modern haircuts to classic barbering, to dimensional highlights and low lights to grey/white blending, and subtle lived-in coloring. This girl is also unbelievably talented in event hair such as up-do's and braiding. She is our go-to stylist for those wanting a fishtail or waterfall braid added to their do. In her spare time, Jackie leads an active lifestyle and has recently become a part-time yoga instructor! A visit with Jackie means good conversation, education for hair care at home and lots of giggling.
Accepting new clients: Yes
sarah
Senior Hairstylist
13 years experience; 3 with Twisted
Specialty: Precision cutting, shags, mullets and permanent texture
Sarah joined the Twisted team in 2020 bringing with her a solid amount of experience as a multi-talented stylist who is ready to take on any project that comes her way. As a stylist, she loves working on precision cutting such as bobs and pixies, razor cutting such as shags and mullets, and curly hair! She enjoys creating commercial, lived-in colors such as highlights of any kind and subtle balyages. You will also see her tackling perms quite often as she loves a good set of curls to care for, her own included. She will be sure to teach you what you need to know to care for your curly locks whether they are natural or permanently textured. You will be sure to experience her bright and bubbly personality upon meeting and will enjoy time spent in her chair chatting and laughing!
Accepting new clients: Yes
sammy
Intermediate Hairstylist
BABE Extension Certified
4 years experience; 2 with Twisted
Specialty: Long layered haircuts, blonding services and vivids
Sammy has become a talented and diverse hairstylist since joining the Twisted team 3 years ago and has been successful at growing her clientele proving that her goal is to be a versatile stylist by learning everything she can. Her favorite thing to provide in haircutting is creating dimensional layers and custom looks to medium and long lengths. Give her a good butterfly cut any day! Soft foiling techniques to bold reds and coppers to neon vivids are all of interest to Sammy as she loves experimenting with all types of hair coloring. Sammy also provides hair extension services such as tape-in's, fusions, and wefts as she is also certified with BABE extensions along with Krista and Randi. If you're looking for a new stylist and are interested in giving a young stylist a shot, please call and book with this new talent! You will love her!
Accepting new clients: Yes
joely
Studio Receptionist
3 years experience; 1 with Twisted
Meet Jo! She is the voice you hear when you call our studio, the person replying to your emails or social media messages and of course the smiling face that welcomes you in to our studio. Joely joined the Twisted team a year ago and was immediately a core member to our studio as she has impecable customer service skills and fit in our family like a glove. She has experience in the beauty industry as she had completed hair school and worked in a salon atmosphere previously. You never know, you may see her swapping back over to hair in the near future! On a daily basis you will see Jo taking care of our retail space, completing orders and inventory, helping the stylists and tattoo artists juggle their schedules and of course helping you when you come to visit us. Jo is very knowlegable in all aspects of our studio and our retail, so please don't hesitate to call and ask any questions!
samantha
Junior Stylist
2 years experience; 1 with Twisted
Specialty: Alternative cuts, bold color placements and vivids
Meet our junior hairstylist Samantha! Sam has been with our team for almost one year and has been quickly growing into a successful young stylist. Her clientele so far has been diverse including all types of coloring, foiling, long cutting to barbering, Her favorite hair projects to work on, as well as what she would love to gain more opportunities for, would be alternative styles such as shags and mullets, bold color placements and multi-colored vivids. Sam is also offering tinsel extensions that are a great way to add a little extra sparkle and color to any style. Sam has a very kind and gentle personality that will surely make you feel comfortable in her chair. ​ Sam is hoping for more practice in the following types of cutting: short pixies, bobs and barbering
Accepting new clients: Yes
sara
Salon Apprentice
New to Twisted
Specialty: Barbering, bobs and vivid colors
Twisted recently welcomed Sara to the team as our salon apprentice. Sara finished hair school in May 2024, she is now working at gaining her apprenticeship hours and in-salon training with us. Around the salon, you will see Sara assisting our stylists, shadowing us to learn skills, taking walk-in's and helping with daily shop duties. So far, Sara is confident with haircuts such as short barber cuts, bobs or solid form cuts, and she would love more practice with heavily layered styles such as shags. Although Sara's favorite color projects to work on are those of vivid's and neon's, she would also love more opportunity to practice foiling techniques and lived-in looks.
If you would like to come in and give her a shot, please call and let us know and we can accommodate you accordingly! 780-464-2883
Accepting new clients: Yes
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