Hidden Haven Salon to host small business event
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EAST LIVERPOOL -- Nina Moore, owner of Hidden Haven Salon, is hoping to get to meet community members and other small business owners in the area with a small business event held at her salon, 16572 St. Claire Ave., Ste. 602, Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The event will feature raffles for gift baskets and several vendors including food.
The salon will also have limited edition shirts for sale during the event.
Moore, who has been a hairdresser for nearly seven years, opened the salon Dec. 1.
She worked most of her career in Salem before moving to East Liverpool last year. After moving to East Liverpool, she and her husband Brian started talking about her opening her own salon.
The location where she opened the salon was the same location she and her husband had dreamed of opening a salon when they were 18 and 19 years old.
"At that time, we were broke and didn't have a penny to our name," Moore said. "We were broke, dumb kids just trying to figure out life.
At that time, the place where her salon is located now used to be a salon and had gone up for lease. She and Brian would joke all the time that they were going to put a salon in that location someday.
She said since then they have moved around a bit before settling in East Liverpool and deciding to open a salon six years later.
After looking around for a location, they found one which they almost signed a lease on when the deal fell through at the last minute.
They went back to looking at locations and were driving around one night and saw a "for rent" sign in the location where they had joked about opening a salon six years prior.
Moore said that when they signed the lease on the location, she was so happy she was sobbing.
"I was like, this is such a full circle moment. When I was a dumb 18-year-old kid with a dream, I didn't even think this was going to be possible," Moore said.
Brian quit his job to be a stay-at-home dad and gave Nina the chance to focus on her career.
Moore did all her cosmetology training in high school. She said she had no formal business training and learned to run a business by calling and talking to other salon owners and now she hopes to become a mentor for her six employees.
Moore said the name Hidden Haven Salon comes from a couple of negative experiences she has had in the industry, and she wants her salon to be a safe, supportive environment for the girls who work there.