How has the industry changed over the years? "I wanted to do something everyone else couldn't do," Gina said. It leaves a client with a more natural, less rigid cut. Gina also does razor cuts and a brush-to-brush technique not found at every salon that involves two brushes and scissors being used simultaneously. "I believe it's a gift from above, I'm very blessed," she said. Her background in art and design allows Gina to know intuitively, based on factors such as face and head shape and hair texture, what hair style and color will look good on someone. Gina started doing makeovers 20 years ago, when they were not as well-known. The Snippery also works with donors to Locks of Love, non-profit that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical problems. She will clear out the salon and bring patients in, giving them time and privacy to select the perfect hair style and color. Gina also specializes in in helping people who have experienced hair loss, due to chemotherapy or other illness, achieve better results with the wigs or hair pieces that are available. She donates gift certificates to just about any local cause that asks, from Braintree schools and Braintree After School Enrichment to pet rescue organizations and cancer fundraisers. Gina is also looking for someone, either part- or full-time, to fill a chair who has an existing client base. She has been working for and learning from Gina for 10 years, though, and was an experienced hair stylist going into the academy. Tanck recently graduated from Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy, part of the Braintree location's first graduating class. About eight years later, she moved to her current location, a multi-tenant building at 654 Washington St. Gina opened a salon in Quincy 25 years ago. "I got a reputation for listening," Gina said. Her clients were students with long hair who were afraid to get a cut by a professional, worried that they would lose much more hair than they wanted. She would cut girls' hair in the bathroom, to the chagrin of a teacher or two. She also attended post-grad courses at the school for three years, focusing on commercial art.Īt the time she also began cutting hair. See The Snippery interview below.Īs a high school student at Quincy Vocational, Gina worked for a company drawing for catalogs with pen and ink. Patch features questions with business owners every Monday. "I don't let anyone else touch my hair," Boland said. The care Gina takes with her clients and her generosity with all kinds of charities, and especially with cancer patients, has kept Boland coming back to The Snippery for decades. Marcia Boland, a Stoughton resident, met Gina 20 years ago when she won a makeover in a raffle for the hospice organization where she was a volunteer. The compulsion to paint or draw can come and go with moods, but Gina says she is always happy to help someone with their hair. The longtime owner of The Snippery, a hair salon on Washington Street in Braintree, Gina has designed headstones, exhibited her photographs and drawings, and produced jewelry.īut her overriding passion is hair styling.
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