Dean Krapf

Dean Krapf is co-owner of Lluminaire Salon. He has spent more than thirty years in the beauty field, and for three decades held membership with the T.H.E. Artist Agency in Washington, D.C. He has done hair and makeup for hundreds of editorial and celebrity shoots, with his work published in outlets such as Vanity Fair, People, Modern Salon, American Salon, Washingtonian, Baltimore Magazine and Baltimore Style. He graduated from Marc's School of Hair Design. Cutting training covers precision and razor work under Giuseppe Castellano in Baltimore, two rounds of coursework with Vidal Sassoon in Santa Monica, California, and training with Vidal Sassoon in Atlanta. Continuing education includes sessions with Trevor Sorbie Signature Sessions and Vivian Mackinder in New York, plus four visits to the John Paul Mitchell Global Forum in Las Vegas. Color training includes the L'Oréal Professional Academy in New York, the Fundamentals of Color course taken twice with Nancy Braun, who also taught him balayage and corrective color, and L'Oréal sessions with Carlo Novoa, Yureesh Hooker and Christy Cosgrove. He took a painting techniques course led by Ian McCabe and Christine Silverman in Southampton, Pennsylvania, studied make-up artistry at Von Lee International School of Aesthetics in Pikesville, completed hair for film training in Los Angeles, and trained in Sherri Renée Hair Couture for Parisian hair enhancements. He is certified in keratin smoothing systems and belongs to Local 798 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, hair department.