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Vanessa L. Montri

Biltmore Who’s Who Selects Vanessa L. Montri as this week’s Honored Member of the Executive and Professional Registry for 2009.

Vanessa L. Montri, Director, Colorist, and Platform Artist of Montri Art Form, has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Vanessa L. Montri’s commitment to excellence in the field of beauty, wellness, and skincare.

Montri, a certified instructor and manager in the states of Michigan and Ohio, and licensed cosmetologist since 1990, has been working, traveling, and training people at hair shows all over the country for the past twenty years.

After taking up the art of cosmetology to earn extra money and put herself through college, Montri quickly discovered not only how much she enjoyed the field, but that she could really earn a good living with added education.  After attending a hair show in an effort to help out a national distributer, she became hooked and was excited to learn more about the industry.  “I could not believe all of the avenues the beauty industry had to offer,” she explained.  Since then, she’s been training staff in motivational skills, professionalism, technical haircutting, technical hair color, the latest trends and up-style techniques, upcoming collections and trends, how to care for and understand the needs of guests through a proper and thorough consultations, and traveling to other salons and shows providing other professionals with advanced training workshops.  She also travels to Miami, Florida twice a year and to Birmingham, Alabama, Dallas, Texas, and Toronto, Canada conducting stage work for audiences of 1,000 or more guests at a time.   

Montri has been trained by some of the finest colorists and designers in her industry from Miami, Florida all the way to Milano, Italy, and she’s attended some of the greatest styling classes, including those of Greg Hazelton, Vidal Sassoon, and Martin Parson.  She has been receiving ongoing education every year for the past twenty years. 

Hoping to continue showing and teaching how the beauty industry is changing and how beauty starts from within, Montri will continue to work hard at educating people on how to take care of their skin, body, hair, and their health.  “My prayer is that people can see how beautiful they really are without thinking they need to buy into what the world tells them,” she said. 

In addition to receiving an honorable mention from BehindTheChair.com, Montri was also a guest at a shoot with the actor/comedian Chris Rock and Kevin Kirk, and was also featured as a guest artist for a number of salons throughout the United States teaching techniques and motivational and professionals skills.  Vanessa is a member of Night Light and the Cosmetology Association, and enjoys being with her family, tennis, playing chess, and roller skating, during her free time.

For more information, visit http://montriartform.com.

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Vanessa L. Montri
Posted by Biltmore Who's Who on Friday, August 20, 2010