Salon Team
Our gifted team of Stylists, Estheticians, Massage Therapists, Nail Specialists, Waxing & Threading Specialists, and Support Staff are all here to ensure that all of your personal service needs are met and expectations are exceeded.
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FIRST Level 6 Cosmetologist
Daisy Vargas, Level 6 Cosmetologist
Daisy Vargas, Level 6 Cosmetologist is a 1996 graduate of the Rainbow Hair Institute of New Jersey she has been a member of our Divine Styling Team since 2008. Daisy’s passion for hair shows in her professionalism as a Level 5 rating requires the service professional to be proficient at providing any cut or color combination efficiently and with excellence and the ability to create new "avante-garde" styles to compliment facial features and create new color combinations which suit any personality. During her tenure, Daisy has served as our Salon Floor Manager & Educator and continues to mentor our new associates. Daisy is also a member of our Divine Special Event Styling Team that creates and produces a wonderfully unique formal look for any event. Daisy is also one of our certified LOX Extensions Specialists and one of her greatest joys in this profession is watching the reaction of a client after she’s completed a LOX transformation.
Level 5 Cosmetologists
Mei Yip, Level 5 Cosmetologist
Mei Yip, LEVEL 5 Colorist, Stylist & Master Cutter - takes the preeminent title of being conferred as Divine's first Level 5 Professional. She has been part of our Divine Family for over 14 years, starting as an associate with us in 2005 and achieving this rating in 2019 based on Summit-Salon and L'Oreal Salons' standards of performance. A Level 5 Rating is the equivalent of being a "Runway" artist for most product lines and requires the service professional to be proficient at providing any cut or color combination efficiently and with excellence and the ability to create new "avante-garde" styles to complement facial features and create new color combinations to suit any personality. Being conferred with a Level 5 rating is a great honor for Mei but equally one for our entire family of service professionals that look to Mei to lead the way in achieving this exceptionally rare rating conferred upon by her peers in the industry.
Brandy Stanley, Level 5 Cosmetologist
Brandy Stanley, Level 5 Stylist, graduated with honors from the Boca Beauty Academy in South Florida in 2006 received her training apprenticing at one of South Florida’s most prestigious salons. Brandy joined our Divine Stylist Team as a Junior Stylist in 2011 and is a natural artist at coloring, cutting, and styling. Her best asset, though, is her ability to listen to her guests and transform their request into a cut or color that that compliments their facial frame. Brandy is emphatic when it comes to continuing education seminars, learning new cutting techniques and coloring processes and is certified in all of our product lines to provide you with the latest cut, style and color – and one that will compliment you superbly.
Payal Patel, Level 5 Cosmetologist
Payal Patel, Level 5 Stylist-Colorist & Educator, graduated from The Salon Professional Academy at the top of her 2014 class and joined our cosmetology training program shortly thereafter. She graduated to our floor as a New Talent Stylist in May 2015 and is now a Level 4 stylist and is our primary Educator for new associates. Her array of services include all salon-specialty services, eyebrow threading, nail-spa services, Balayage Certified, and she is certified in Keratin smoothing treatments.
Chandi Mansingh, Level 5 Cosmetologist
Chandi Mansingh, Level 5 Cosmetologist graduated from Paul Mitchell School (Tampa) in 2014 and joined our Cosmetology Associate Training Program immediately following her graduation. She graduated to a floor stylist in May 2015. Her training with us includes traditional color processes but also specialty services such as Balayage-Ombré which uniquely blends colors. Chandi is also certified as a Motives® Makeup Artist and includes eyebrow threading services in her profile of guest services.
Level 3 Cosmetologists
Margie Batista
Margie Batista, Level 3 Cosmetologist began her training as a Stylist & Colorist with Vidal Sassoon in New York City over 23 years ago. She has been a member of the original styling team since we opened in 1999 and is certified a Master Stylist & Colorist here at Divine Designs. In addition to serving her clients, Margie is also our Divine Stylist Team-Leader supervising our team of stylists, colorists & salon apprentices. Margie’s experience as a Master Stylist allows her to deliver virtually every new cut, style and coloring process in today’s changing world with ease but as a Master Colorist, her specialty is color-corrective work and as a Master Stylist, her most enjoyable moments have been when she has created a unique look for brides and other celebrants with her extraordinary special-event styling talent.
Maribel Gomez
Maribel Gomez Level 3 Cosmetologist graduated from the Artistic Nails & Beauty Academy in 2015 and joined our Cosmetology Associate Program shortly thereafter. Successfully completing this program and graduating to the floor in September 2016 she has passed all the requisite requirements in both technical and customer service skills to serve as a Level 3 Service Professional at Divine and offers a vast array of salon services including Specialty Colors (Balayage-Ombre) and color-corrections and is certified as a Motives® Makeup Artist as well. Come see Maribel for any salon service, you will be as impressed as we have been with this marvelous service professional!
Kulrisa (Risa) Burns
Risa Burns, Level 3 Cosmetologist joined Divine Designs as a Cosmetology Associate immediately following her 2017 graduation form the Artistic Nails & Beauty Academy. Risa completed our training program and graduated to the floor as a Salon Service Professional in April, 2018. Her excellent creative & technical skills resulted in one of the fastest promotions that we have seen with Risa jumping levels within six months of her graduation to the floor. Risa is certified in all salon services, basic nail-spa services, Butterfly® and Volume® eyelash extensions and Keratin® smoothing treatments. If you're looking for a new style or color, give Risa an opportunity to show you what she can do for you with her amazing creativity and talent.
Nicole Hewitt
Nicole Hewitt, Level 3 Cosmetologist, is a graduate of Empire Beauty School who joined our Cosmetology Associate Training Program immediately upon graduation in September 2018. She trained under the tutelage of our L3 and L4 Master-Colorists and graduated to the floor in March 2019. Nicole is talented in virtually all color and cutting techniques, but she excelled at delivering specialty colors with different shades of highlights using foils or experimenting with newer “avant-garde” looks!
Level 2 Cosmetologists
Mason Smalls
Mason Smalls, Level 2 Cosmetologist - graduated from the Paul Mitchell School in 2018 and began his career by mentoring under very experienced master stylists and several well known Tampa salons. Having joined Divine in 2020, Mason brings his very creative and talented skills to the Brandon market and offers our guests certified Keratin smoothing treatments, specialty color processes including balayage and ombre, highlights, extensions and is very skilled at providing services for naturally curly hair.
Ersilda (Silda) Alla, Level 2 Cosmetologist
Ersilda (Silda) Alla, Level 2 Cosmetologist - is originally from Albania and joined us immediately after graduating at the top of her class at Shear Excellence Hair Academy in Tampa. After successfully being trained by our professional educators, Silda graduated to the floor as a superb Colorist-Cutter. In addition to being exceptionally skilled at highlights/lowlights and specialty colors, she is also a member of our events team and well skilled at providing bridal styling and makeup. We invite you to experience Silda's wonderful talent, you will not be disappointed with her professionalism and results!
Bijal Kothari, L2 Cosmetologist
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Level 1 Cosmetologists
Jasmine Vanegas, Level 1 Cosmetologist
Jasmine Vanegas, Level 1 Cosmetologist, is a 2018 graduate of Tampa’s Summit Salon Academy and apprenticed with several reputable local salons before joining our team in March, 2021. Jasmine has been trained to use multiple color lines including Redken, Matrix, and L’Oréal. Being a color specialist, her skills include the ability to provide excellent color-corrective services as well as blended specialty color services including balayage and ombre highlights. Jasmine’s professional highlights includes being the runway stylist for the Marc Brower Fashion show in Tampa and we are very pleased with Jasmine’s professional ability to deliver the perfect blend of color and framing cut to our guests.
Brynn Popke, L1 Cosmetologist
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