Tonya Samples-Kvapil
Tonya
is co-owner and hair designer at Salon Lotus in Atlanta. The
unsurpassed passion she has for the beauty industry has driven her
career to many successes during the years in the industry. Tonya
started her career in 1989 after graduating hair design school in
Atlanta. Tonya has a very diverse resume that has molded her into
the successful hair designer and salon owner of today. She has 10
years of photo shoot experience with local production companies and
modeling agencies, 4 years experience with Brocato International as
a salon educator and platform artist teaching other salons current
trends, professionalism and retail design. She has traveled the U.S.
expanding her knowledge with continuing education classes such as
the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, and many other classes in
New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami and countless other cosmopolitan
cities in the United States. She has extensive training with many of
the leading innovators in the industry, there are just too may to
list. Tonya‘s work has been published in Goldwell Trendsetters
Magazine.
The focus in her career at this time is to grow her flourishing
business and to mentor young designers in Salon Lotus’s
apprenticeship program. Tonya says that” mentoring young designers
and teaching true professionalism keeps me motivated to be the best
in anything I do. The young designers hold me accountable everyday
to live up to what I am teaching. After many years in the industry I
am still just as excited to get to the salon every morning as I was
the first day out of beauty school!” Tonya’s thriving clientele in
the salon is certainly a product of her excitement and dedication to
her artistry! Tonya says” there is nothing better than seeing
someone light up as you transform them. It can be powerful and mean
more than just another haircut. We are creating entire images,
allowing someone to see themselves as beautiful!”
Tonya is a native of the metro Atlanta area where she currently
resides with her husband, Michael and their 2 Shih Tzu’s, Kudzu &
Fonzi.
