Renee Battiste

Renee Battiste has worked in salons for twenty-eight years. She started at a nail desk, moved behind the chair four years later, and has cut, colored and styled straight, wavy, curly and coily hair ever since. Clients who first met her at the nail desk still book her for manicures.

She writes the Hair and Nails sections: wash days, styling with and without heat, color, cuts and how to ask for one, and at-home manicures that last.