Charity Long

Charity Long works as a hair stylist at Hair by Charity, located inside Solera Salon in Overland Park, Kansas. She has worked as a stylist for 18 years and has held a license since 2001. Her present focus is color work, highlights and haircuts. Her color education began at Mario Tricoci Salon and Day Spa in Leawood, Kansas, where she studied advanced color and highlighting and then spent five years in the color department mentoring apprentices. She learned cutting and styling at Mitsu Sato in Prairie Village, Kansas. In 2006 she obtained a cosmetology instructor's license, and for two years she taught cosmetology at the Mitsu Sato Academy in Overland Park. From 2007 through 2013 she served as an artistic educator for Pravana, instructing stylists in advanced color theory and technique. She won company-wide first place in a photo contest for hair color work, and her work has been featured on the cover of Her Life magazine and in 435 South.