Tatiana Karelina
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Tatiana Karelina | |
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 Karelina in London, England, in 2016 | |
| Born | 20 July 1980 Kashin, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | British, Russian |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Website | www.tatianakarelina.co.uk |
Tatiana Karelina (born 1980) is a Russian entrepreneur living in London, United Kingdom. She is the founder of Tatiana Karelina, a chain of self-named salons specialising in hair extensions and is noted for introducing the Micro Ring hair extension technique into the UK.
Early life
Karelina, was born to Soviet parents in Kashin, Russia, a rural agricultural area 250 km north-east of Moscow. In 2000, at the age of 20, Karelina left Kashin on a student's visa for the United States where she spent the summer learning English. In 2002, she graduated from Tver State University with a degree in Linguistics before moving to London where she took an apprenticeship with Lucinda Ellery, a salon that specialised in hair loss and hair extensions.
Career
In 2006, Karelina left Lucinda Ellery to set up Tatiana Hair Extensions from her 1-bedroom house in Barnet. Over the next few years she built her reputation as one of the UK's premier hair extensionist by combining the micro ring attachment technique and high quality Russian hair together with her approach to colour blending. But it was on the back of a 2008 British Broadcasting company (BBC Three) documentary Jamelia: Whose Hair Is It Anyway? that she rose to prominence.[1][2] Following the BBC documentary at the height of the financial crisis she opened her first salon in Kensington. Her second salon quickly followed, with Manchester opening in 2010. In 2011, Sky UK’s Moscow correspondent, Amanda Walker accompanied Karelina to film a new piece on the hair extension industry in Russia.[3] In 2015, the company rebranded from Tatiana Hair Extensions to Tatiana Karelina as a precursor for their expansion into the United States. In October 2017 Tatiana Karelina opened her first US salon in West Hollywood at the same time some of her was featured by Emma Thompson in the Hollywood film The Meyerowitz Stories. The hairpiece created by Tatiana to create Emma's look of a disheveled alcoholic was ranked number 4 in the Huffington Post article "19 Emma Thompson Hairstyles, Ranked", [4]
References
- ^ Coutenay-Smith, Natasha [1], "The Daily Mail", 18 July 2008
- ^ [2] Jamelia: Whose Hair Is It Anyway?
- ^ Walker, Amanda (14 April 2011). "'Virgin Slavic' Hair Meets Demand From West". News.sky.com. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ Jacobs, Matthew (17 October 2017). "'19 Emma Thompson Hairstyles, Ranked". huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2017.