About Us

Gina
Originally from Long Island, New York...moved to Columbus in 1981 after an 8 year stay in Miami beach and a few minutes in Atlanta, Ga (long story) ... and has loved Ohio ever since. Unlike the other girls....she didn't go to barber college right out of high school...she screwed around awhile trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life before finally enrolling at the Ohio State Barber College in 1982...and starting cutting hair at her first shop across the street from OSU in 1983.
Gina specializes in men's hair, in fact that's all she does....that's all she wants to do...haircuts, straight razor barber shop shaves, beard trims...she does it all. Music is her genre...she doesn't cut hair unless the music is playing LOUD. Her favorite music includes The White Stripes, Audioslave, Pearl Jam, Radiohead AND The Rolling Stones. She's having a secret love affair with Keith Richards that no one knows about yet!


Susie
is originally from the south side of Columbus...she's the most hyper one of the bunch and for that we are all thankful! She's the one you can always count on in a pinch...all you gotta do is call her name and she comes running to help....all 110 pounds of her!! Susie went to barber school in 1980...her brother was a hair stylist as well...and got her first gig at the Worthington Square Barber Shop. She worked there for 5 years before going to Desantis Hair Styling downtown, where she lasted 14 years...(can we please get her to stay here that long??) and came looking for a job at Gina's in the summer of 2002. Susie's got 2 great kids...everyone loves her and she loves everyone...she's a team player. She's great doing all kinds of hair...but she specializes in curly hair, men's tapers, and she LOVES doing perms. Her musical tastes are extreme....Marvin Gaye AND the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I quit trying to figure Susie out a long time ago!


Grace
is also an Ohio Native. She went to OSU for one year...then heard a cosmotology commercial on the radio and said to herself...."I can do that"....the rest is history! She is a Nationwide Beauty Academy Graduate and was an apprentice at Kenneth's the same as Tracey was. She stayed at Kenneth's for 4 years before deciding she wanted to work in a different kind of enviroment. She says she was lucky enough to find Gina's and she's been with us since the winter of 2003. Grace is skilled in all kinds of hair.....she especially loves doing short women's cuts, color, and waxing, She's an avid listener of Blue Grass, Disco, Big bands, the blues, alternative..... she likes just about anything when it comes to music....she's a musician herself. She also can dance up a storm and does so quite regularly....even behind the chair!!


Hilary
 She's originally from Dublin, Ohio but she lived in Chicago as well and actually finished high school in Chicago as well as cosmetology school. She graduated from cos school (Pivot Point) in 1998, then moved back to Columbus and got a job at Kenneth's Hair Salon where she worked for 4 years. Not feeling quite fulfilled at Kenneth's she left there and spent the next 2 years trying to find a good fit...she heard that Gina's was hiring and applied for the job... already knowing Grace and Tracey since they all worked together at Kenneth's. Hilary's been part of our team since the fall of 2004. She excels in all hair services...but her favorites are doing color and any kind of haircut that involves a big change for her client! She's a classic rock fan through and through.


John
Born and raised in southern ohio, John originally went to college for social work then left school to work for a mortgage company for five years. Not liking the mortgage business, and having a sister who does hair, he decided to go to cosmetology school then worked at Kenneth's salon for 8 years. After leaving Kenneth's, Grace and Hilary recruited him to come work at Gina's! He loves all aspects of doing hair; if he had to pick his favorite it would be doing hair color! his other interests include fixing up his house, landscaping, painting, etc.


Christine
 Christine, another former Kenneth's stylist,  heard from John how great it is here and decided, after spending the last six months as a stay-at-home mom, to join our team.  Music wise, she likes pretty much everything, although we think there may be a rock-n-roll girl hiding in there!  Christine really likes and is talented in short cuts on both men and women; she also enjoys doing highlights!


Amanda
Amanda was born and raised in Westerville.  She graduated from Westerville South in 2007, and having an interest in hair, she was happy to get a job in a hair salon!   She's the sweet voice you hear when you call and make a haircut appointment.... :)