For 20+ years,Kenji has been making waves in the NYC hair industry. -starting his journey at just 19 years old. While studying at Kitakyusyu University and working as a part-time assistant at a salon. Kenji had a terrible accident that damaged his spiral cord and left him paralyzed. The doctors told him he would be never walk again. Kenji, being the relentless man he is, disagreed. Today, Kenji has made a full recovery.

At the time, Kenji drop out of university to purse his dream becoming hairstylist -quickly building a solid reputation among numerous Japanese celebrities, actor and models at one of well-known high-end salon “ZACC” in Tokyo.

In 2005, Kenji received the opportunity of a lifetime to join the opening of new hair salon in NY as director. Without a word of English, Kenji relocated to U.S, equipped with little more than his Scissors and a Smile. Kenji helped to build Salon Wave from ground up.

Kenji followed his soul and started working at Frederic Fekkai in 2009 as top stylist and educator until May 2019.

Today Kenji works at '“Julien Farel Salon ” as Hair Designer. Kenji enjoys working with his clients in the salon, as well as numerous models and renowned celebrities on photoshoots and even Fashion Week.

Kenji is a Director of NPO Hope For All

Kenji is passionate about passing on his decades of wisdom, paying it forward to future generations of hairstylists

Kenji
hair stylist

Tokio
photographer: world well know photographer based in NY and Japan

Keita
hair stylist: celebrity hair stylist works for clients,photoshoot and shows

Hitomi
hair colorist:celebrity colorlist and educator works in world wide

Yoshiki
hair stylist:celebrity hairstylist and most well-known designer in Tokyo and NY

Kazu
videographer and photographer:multi-talented artist,also actor

Hands on

This class will elevate your technique to next level.

You will learn how french hair cutting technique works with Japanese texturizing methods to achieve your goal.

this class is focused on creating customized style to enhance each client beauty

contents

• key of success

• customize techniques and methods for each model

• how to enhance the haircut with styling

• review the detail

Demo

I’ll share from my experience how to be successful in our business. A key is how to engage and surprise to clients.there are so many simple things that you can change from today.

Today is the first day of lest of you life!!

contents

• how to engage with clients and make them fans of you

• how to design the style to bring the beauty from each client

• how to cut and style to achieve the goal

• how to make the client repeat again

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