If there's one takeaway, it's that Suzanne (Suz) DeNeen is passionate about enhancing natural beauty and educating anyone who books an appointment how to achieve a variety of looks at home. Embracing who we are on the outside is just as important as embracing who we are on the inside. Let's work with what nature gave us and feel comfortable in our own skin!
The desire to hear people out as well as aid fellow humans to express themselves aesthetically and authentically has been there since running around her childhood home in Texas. Suz was too big for her britches in Texas, striving to be the best version of herself she left home to attain a business degree from The University of Colorado in Boulder, completed cosmetology school in one of the top hair and makeup schools in New York City, excelled in an apprenticeship and moved quickly up the ladder to a senior hairstylist and trainer in a high end boutique hair salon in the heart of New York City. NYC provided her with a vast array of experience and knowledge of all hair types and hair styles on so many people of different backgrounds for 8 glorious years.
New Zealand became her home in 2017. Suz yet again, up'd her game by attending a prestigious academy in Los Angelos by adding permanent makeup/ cosmetic tattooing, lash lifting/ tinting, and brow shaping/ tinting to her beauty tool belt in 2019. Suz continues her education and mastery of the artistry of Microblading (AKA Brow Feathering/ 3Dbrow/ Brow Embroidery), Ombré/ Powder Brows, Eyelash Line/ Eyeliner, and Tattoo Removal by saline solution.
Suz loves to dream up ‘together’ and achieve a ‘whole new look.' Get in touch if you're after any of the following:
- Hair that is new and fresh for amazing daily wear, and every appointment comes with plenty of tips
- Brow Enhancements in customized shapes, sizes, and colors (temporary treatments like tints/ hybrid stains or more permanent w/ tattooing)
- Eyeliner of many sorts, feel wide eyed and gorgeous everyday with cosmetic tattooing
- Lip Blush Tattoo Enhancements that define the outer edges and blends in with your natural lip!
Why choose Suz?
You're your own person. You have unique interests, hobbies, needs, routines, and even fears. You may know precisely what you like or you may haven't the slightest clue what you want. It's up to your hairstylist, makeup artist or cosmetic tattooist to understand what you want so when you walk out the door, you are radiating confidence. With Suz, you're guaranteed to be:
patiently heard
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prompted with the right questions
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given all options
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comfortable in experienced hands
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confident walking out the door
Suz, is EXTREMELY qualified (licensed) and upholds HIGH standard for health, safety and sanitation (certified in USA & NZ).
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Applicable qualifications & certifications
- cosmetology school from world renowned, Nick Arrojo in New York City in 2009
- permanent cosmetics advanced training from a leader in the industry, Daria Chupry in Los Angelos in 2017
- continued education yearly for both hair and permanent makeup in the USA
- meets the criteria for Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
- Blood Born Pathogen (BBP) certified in USA since 2017, updating yearly
- Health & Safety certified in NZ for hairdressing & permanent makeup since 2017
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Experience in hair, makeup
- 2009-2016 hair apprenticeship leading to senior stylist/ educator at Fringe Salon in Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC
- serviced wedding and event bookings for hair and makeup across NYC for 7 years
- fashion hair and makeup artist for multiple designers and photographers in NYC for 7 years
- 2018 became sole proprietor and boss babe of her very own studio in New Zealand; the start of The Beauty Den in Matakana and Bardot & Brando Hair Studio in Warkworth (in 2019, consolidated to The Beauty Den)
- tidying brows, lifting lashes, and tattooing brows, eyeliner and lips since 2018 in Warkworth, NZ
- 2024 opening an additional hair and cosmetic tattoo studio in Waipu, NZ under the name: Grit & Grace