Richard Nocera

Richard Nocera owns The Parlor, where he serves as master stylist and master colorist and leads the salon's stylist team. Across four decades he has worked as a hairstylist, a salon owner and the owner of a cosmetology school. He has also owned and operated The Speak Easy, Great Beginning and Little Beginnings, salons in Wellesley, Weston and Sudbury.

He trained under Vidal Sassoon, John Sebastian, Irvine Rusk and Paul Mitchell. He founded The Nocera Group School of Hair Design, which he owned and directed and where he also taught. The school graduated about 300 students during the 1980s and 1990s.

His approach favors contemporary cuts fitted to each client's face, complexion and hair type. He once worked as hairstylist to the pop artist Jewel during a brief stay in Scottsdale, Arizona.