Denise Zingale

Denise Zingale owns D'MAZ Lifestyle Salon, where she has worked as owner and hairdresser since January 2001. She holds master stylist and master hairdresser titles, works as a hair and wellness expert, and writes on both subjects. With more than 40 years in cutting, styling, color, and permanent and body waving, she brings a long record of hands-on work to the chair.

Early in her career, she worked as a ladies designer in Chicago and New York for the NCA Spring/Summer Hair America Design Team of the Professional Beauty Association, and she created and taught the 2004 spring/summer cut, color and perm trend release. She later served as artistic director, hairdresser and educator at salons in Beachwood, Solon and Woodmere, where she developed associate training programs. She also worked in sales and education for Zotos International across Northeast Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and she teaches advanced and continuing education classes for licensed hairdressers in Ohio. Her platform work includes performing and teaching at regional hair shows and in salons. She has won the Fourth Annual Helene Curtis National Professional Perm Techniques Contest and a Design 2000 Competition.

Her specialties are permanent, body and beach waves, including perms on color-treated and highlighted hair. Before a perm, she reviews hair condition, history and goals, then tailors curl size and placement to the cut and style the client wants, and she gives aftercare advice and product recommendations. Perm clients may have fine, thinning, short, long, straight, curly or natural hair. She also designs low-maintenance cuts and color for women and men over 50, and cut and color options for thinning or thick hair, often in long bobs, soft shags and layered cuts that grow out well. She believes a haircut alone won't control frizz, so she recommends a professional product and care routine.

Her wellness training includes Certified Reiki III Master Level, held since October 2001, and certification as an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, in which she teaches the 9 Gamut Tapping Technique. She is also a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Gym Association, certified since February 2008, and holds AHA Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED certification. She holds the Americas' Educator Designation from the Professional Beauty Association and National Cosmetology Association, and has trained and studied as a hairdresser, wellness practitioner and educator in the United States, Canada and Europe.