OUR TEAM

Since 2008, Amanda’s bubbly personality, passion for hair and artistic flair have enabled her to create beautiful hair and years of happy clients. She loves bright, happy colours, and especially thrills in the creation of blonde, beautiful hues. Balayage is her forte, and she is forever working to perfect her methods and learn new ones. Most recently, Amanda trained at Nine Zero One Salon in West Hollywood, where they are best known for their superior colouring skills and expertise in balayage, and for their celebrity clients. With this training, Amanda is excelling as an ombre and balayage wizard! She believes in fully understanding her clients’ needs in order to make them feel comfortable and confident during their appointment and to achieve a result they are happy with. Besides her work, Amanda enjoys travelling and spending time with family.

Deidre is one of the most well-regarded extension masters in all of Canada. She has been certified with Great Lengths for more than 15 years and most recently with BELAMI and HOTHEADS Hair, with her chosen passion lying in working with fusion (keratin tip). Her artful blending of colours is unparalleled and her precise application combine to create the most flawless, beautiful hairstyles. Deidre has worked extensively in the film industry where she built a name for herself doing extensions for well-known actors and celebrities. Now she makes her home at Citrus where she enjoys the calm, relaxing environment. Her clients enjoy her professionalism, laid-back manner and willingness to go above and beyond to accommodate her clients and make sure they are over the moon with their new hair!

Raana is a master of all trades, with talent for colouring, cutting and extension work. She is passionate and meticulous, with a perfectionist streak when it come to her work. Armed with over 17 years of experience, Raana is skilled in balayage, colour corrections, styling and updo's, including bridal styles. This sassy fashionista loves braids, beachy waves and beautiful, feminine looks. She is also certified in Great Lengths and Bellami hair extensions and, with an eye for colour matching, she can create the most natural-looking, stunning looks. Her ultimate goal is meeting her clients’ needs, making them happy and putting her best work out there into the world! Her gentle nature and charming personality make it easy to spend time in her chair while she rocks your locks!

Meaghan is meticulous in whatever she does and strives to make sure that everyone leaves happy. She specializes in techniques that incorporate colour corrective work, balayage and innovative foiling techniques to create beautiful, natural looks. Graduating from John Casablanca Hair Institute, Meaghan joined us as a fresh new multi-talented stylist and with her drive and focus on perfecting her craft, she moved up to become an accomplished senior stylist. Her colour style tends toward Furthering her education is a passion for her, having done extensive advanced training including Vidal Sassoon cutting methods, Organic Colour Systems training and has become a Gold Key Colour Educator with Kevin Murphy. Away from work, Meaghan enjoys cooking, baking, hanging out with friends and travelling.

This fun-loving, feisty lady comes armed with a Red Seal Certification, which is the interprovincial standard of excellence in the skilled trades. She has a couple of decades of experience under her belt and can turn out amazing feats of colouring and cutting with her eyes closed (but she won't). Her loves include funky colours and dramatic makeovers, and her magic brush also paints up beautiful balayage masterpieces. Nicole has extensive training with all types of cuts...short, long, curly and everything in between. If you like puns, good dad jokes and laughs, you'll have a great time in her chair while she works her magic!

Inna joined us at the end of 2019, bringing with her many years of experience in the industry. Her gentle and kind spirit, caring attitude and vast knowledge of hair makes her a fan favourite. Her skills tend toward natural-looking, sophisticated looks, and she excels at precision cuts. She can bob your hair like nobody's business! Her colours are soft and easy-going, like her personality. This lovely soul cares about every client, and before the pandemic you might have been the lucky recipient of one of her warm hugs :) Her experience includes working for some of the top salons in the city, and her travels brought her here to us at Citrus.

Gypsy is a perfectionist who loves precision because of her Vidal Sassoon training. She started in /99 and is twice published in Latest Hairstyles magazine. Despite her personal wild style, she enjoys executing both conservative and edgy fashions. She excels at cutting both woman’s and men’s short and long hair, with her strong belief in cutting a shape into the hair to make at home styling easier. She enjoys soft balayage and grey coverage / blending. She also loves to educate on how to achieve healthy hair, how to prevent color fading and styling tips. Her personality is engaging, caring, attentive and fun while she connects with her guests. Outside the studio she enjoys quality time with her husband, parrots and dog as well as humanitarian efforts.

Anya is one of our hair extensions experts and is proficient in Great Lengths, tape-in and microbead extensions. To add to her extension expertise and loving the look of all-over highlights, her foiling techniques enable her to conjure up a blonde head of perfectly placed highlights that shimmer and shine. She has worked in the film industry with celebrities, backstage at the Leo awards, styling at fashion and bridal shows, including Vancouver fashion week. Have a wedding coming up? Anya can whip up a fancy ‘do for your big day! Had a stressful day at work (or home!)? You will float out of the salon after your visit with this talented, easy-going, friendly gal and feel completely rejuvenated, pampered and years younger!

Starting her career at the age of 15 in Ireland, Kim comes from a family of hair fanatics. She has excelled in her profession in the 10+ years she has been honing her craft. She prides herself on executing the perfect cut and loves the dimension of precisely placed buttery blonde highlights or the luminous shine of chocolate brown tresses (yum!). Kim is a whiz at creating soft, sexy hair and her updo’s and evening styles are unrivaled! She has also embraced Organic Color Systems as her go-to line of permanent colour, for all those who are looking for more natural alternatives. This spunky gal will make sure she understands exactly what you want before she picks up her scissors or colour brush, so that you’re both on the same page. When she’s not at work, Kim enjoys being active, socializing and shopping!

This talented fashionista is a for-real hair master! Lora has the patience of a Samurai and the skill to match. Armed with almost 20 years of experience and a passion to keep learning, her ability to work magic on clients’ hair is inspiring. She is well-versed in colour, with Blondes and beautiful, feminine tones being her passion. Lora loves the gracefulness and artistry of balayage and continues to perfect her already near-flawless placement. Also a wizard with colour corrections, she invites the challenge to whip unwanted colour into submission. This caring, easy-going, professional and funny lady does not want anyone to leave her chair until they are happy and will do whatever she can to make sure they leave with a smile on their face!

This gentle soul helps keep the staff organized and clients pampered. She specializes in blowouts and styling up some juicy bouncy curls and beachy waves. Sammie went to Blanche Macdonald to study global makeup artistry in 2013, and worked freelance as a makeup artist for five years before coming to Citrus. That explains why she loves getting glam. She has created beautiful looks for weddings, on models for local photo shoots and recently has done some work on salon photo shoots. In her spare time away from her second home, she loves hanging with friends and cozying up with a frosty Bellini.

Isabelle is a dynamo who joined us fresh out of hair school and has since been busy learning all she can about colours, cuts and hair extensions. Her upbeat personality, go-getter attitude and eagerness to help everyone, always with a big old smile, has endeared her to Citrus guests and to our team. This little cutie is uber-talented, impressing everyone with her ability to learn techniques quickly and being able to produce beautiful balayage looks on her lucky cllients. When away from the salon, Isabelle brings light into the rest of the world with her beautiful smile.

Aysia is a rising star in the Citrus family and she is moving fast! This beauty grew up dancing, with certifications from The Acrobatic Arts and Associates of International Dance Teachers. She taught dance for 5 years, right after high school, and then changed direction to take the daring plunge into the world of beauty. Years of dance inspired her love of hair styling, during which she mastered the art of braiding and styling hair. Now she dances around the salon learning new art forms that help to transform clients. Armed with the best education from our master stylists, she's ready to make her own way. Away from the salon, Aysia continues her interest in everything artistic and loves drawing and painting. A true artist.

This gentle, soothing soul graduated from Blanche Macdonald's makeup program in 2013, then changed course and attended John Casablanca's Institute to learn the hair business as well. While still in school she came to work part-time at Citrus to expand her knowledge and when she graduated we decided to keep her. Now, as a full time stylist/extension assistant, she keeps busy helping with styling, colouring, extensions and generally honing her skills as an up-and-coming junior stylist and master of all trades. On top of that she's our resident gardener and her green thumb is responsible for the greenery in the salon. This softy loves animals and away from the salon she enjoys hiking and horror movies!

River started her beauty journey in Istanbul where she learned eyebrow threading. From there, she found her way to Vancouver and quickly added to her repertoire with training in makeup, skin care treatments and hair services. Her forte lies in creating long layered cuts and beautiful highlights, and if she can create a complete look with makeup and brows it fills her heart :) Her passion is art, nature and fashion, where she finds inspiration for the looks she creates. Her straight-forward, sassy manner and quirky humour is what her clients appreciate, as well as her unique sense of fashion. Like her name, River is constantly flowing and heading toward the big, open ocean!

This little lady graduated from JCI Institute in 2021 and found her way into the arms of Citrus to continue her hair education. She has a love of cutting men's fades, learning how to create beautifully blended highlights and tackling challenging colour jobs. With the Citrus team of stylists behind her, Steph has started working behind the chair and waving her magic colour brush around with the skill of a hair wizard. To add to her repertoire, she wants to fine-tune her updo skills and team up with Sammie, our makeup guru, to make clients' wedding dreams come true. Away from the salon, Steph can be found at the gym expending all her extra energy!

This gentle soul has a way of soothing and relaxing our lovely clients as they rush in after a busy day at work. With an innate desire to help people, she is a true nurturer who also works as a care aide during her time away from the salon. Aside from being a caring soul, this happy lady is a linguistics major, loves learning new languages and experiencing different cultures. When she does find some spare time to chill and is not in the salon organizing the crew or booking appointments, Gouya loves to spend time with her little chihuahua Vinny, reading mystery novels and listening to a good 90's R&B track.

Antonella was a stylist for many years before giving up working behind the chair to work on building her business. Citrus Hair Salon was born in 2010 with 6 stylists, growing to a staff of 26 and growing still. Learning from her experiences working in a number of other salons, she knew that she wanted to do things differently. Antonella's desire was always to create a space where diverse personalities could coexist in peace and harmony and be part of a team that works together to help each other out. With a very strong no-gossip, no drama policy, this means that stylists are able to focus on their craft instead of other unnecessary drama and give clients the best service possible. As well, a big part of her focus is choosing the most sustainable, eco-friendly products that work and are animal-cruelty free. Having an extensive recycling program beyond the city's basic program is a part of that initiative, so that Citrus can go above and beyond normal recycling. All in all, the goal is to have a healthy, happy salon from the inside out.