Danny Jelaca
Master Stylist
Danny Jelaca is the founder of the brand new million dollar Danny Jelaca Salon in Miami’s South Beach. Danny is a Master Stylist with more than 20 years of experience and is known for his precision dry cuts and expert styling, attracting a celebrity clientele and national magazine and television coverage. In high demand, Jelaca regularly appears on national television and travels internationally to meet his client’s needs. Danny attracts the best stylists and colorists in Miami, recently acquiring the senior staff of Oribe to Danny Jelaca Salon. In addition to regular national magazine coverage, Allure and InStyle magazines cite Danny Jelaca as the top beauty expert and salon destination in Miami.
Stylists
Roberto L. Ditacchio
Senior Stylist
Robert L Ditacchio specializes in cutting and styling.
He has been in the industry for over 20 years.
He was the Creative director for Sebastian Intl. for 12yrs creating seasonal hair concepts and many editorial shoots.
He Worked for Jose Eber, Beverly Hills. He also collaborated with designers during fashion weeks including; B-Rude, Guess, Shelly Stefee, Al la Disposition, and Agent provocateur.
Celebrity clients include:
Kelly Osbourne, Naomi Campbell, Paris Hilton, and Gwen Stefani
Ricky Givens
Senior Stylist
Ricky, is a master hairstylist with eighteen years of experience in the beauty industry. He attended the Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica and continued a successful career as a departmentalized senior stylist and educator in Houston, TX. He worked with a diverse clientele of celebrities and local basketball wives. He is continually called upon to create stunning styles for fashion shows and events. His love of the profession allows him provide you with a paramount experience. He enjoys working with women and men on haircuts, blowouts, updos, and extensions to create styles that turn heads. He believes that honesty, patience and creativity all function together to produce beautiful results allowing them to look and feel great about themselves.
Emanuele Liccardo
Mens Visual Hair Stylist/Groomer
Hailing from Milan, Italy, Emanuele has honed in on his craft specializing in mens grooming. Utilizing his years of experience to offer men a masterful service, he offers the complete experience from specialized barbering and hairstyling skills using scissor over comb, to hot towel shave and beard grooming. You are sure to experience his passion for hair as an art form. He can evaluate an individual’s facial shape to create a flattering detailed style. He has used his experience to create looks for movies on set in Los Angeles and has also been a mens grooming educator in Milan, Italy.
Thai Le
Senior Stylist
Thai grew up in a family of hair dressers but it was not until his mid-twenties that he decided to get into the beauty industry. He’s trained and worked in Palm Beach for the past 15 years specializing in precision haircuts, voluminous blowouts, and extensions. Thai has refined his cutting skills at Dessange in Paris, Phyto Academy in New York and Sassoon in Miami. He’s had the privilege to style hair for socialites and celebrities like Nicola Peltz Beckham, Reese Witherspoon, Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones. He has been mentioned in InStyle and New Beauty magazine for his precision haircuts. He’s worked backstage on runway shows for Carolina Herrera, Naeem Khan, BCBG Max Azria, Zac Posen, Tony Ward and Luli Fama. When he is not working in the salon he is creating colorful abstract art in his studio at home.
Mincho Pacheco
Senior Stylist
Mincho Pacheco, native from El Salvador, makes sure all his clients are guaranteed to get the VIP treatment.
This stylist’s passion for men’s and women’s cuts brought him many accolades in the press.
He was senior stylist for Oscar Blandi NYC and is currently in high demand in Boston and Miami.
Originally trained at Vidal Sassoon LA and the Alfaparf Academy, he has been featured in InStyle Magazine, the Today Show, and Livingly Magazine.
Celeb roster include names like Christy Turlington and Sonja Morgan.
COLORISTS
Dari Correa
Senior Colorist – Corrective Color Specialist
Dari Correa was professionally trained at Wella World Studio in Darmstadt, Germany. He has worked under brands such as Bertram K in Austria, Camile Albane In Paris, Vidal Sassoon In London, Redken Academy in Argentina, and L’Oréal Professional. Dari has been part of the Kadus Professional team of Ambassadors for the Wella Group as of the last few years. He is originally from Brazil and started his color career as a technical educator for Grife’s professional division under the brand Wella. He was later invited by L’Oréal Professional to act in the department of educations as Senior Hair Educator. His ultra blended highlighting and shadow roots technique is sought after from clients globally.
Being a color specialist Dari has expanded his gifts in the industry to expand his career becoming a renowned Makeup artist.
Vitor Pautto
Senior Colorist
Vitor Comes from São Paulo Brazil. He is a Color specialist with an impeccable eye for color trained with L’Oréal Paris. Now full-time in Miami Beach, Vitor has worked for years as a colorist in Brazil and NYC. Vitor uses all the latest Techniques in Balayage and highlighting to transforms each client by choosing the tones that complement the skin and lifestyle of that client. He really connects with the client to collaborate and allow for them to express their unique individuality. Vitor work has been featured in many editorial campaigns, music videos, and Fashion shows. To see more work, check out his Instagram at @plautto.
Sasha Alexander
Senior Colorist
Sasha has been in the industry for 18 years. He started his education with Rita Hazan NY in a very high paced environment, where he learned to create very natural, yet rich color efficiently. His journey then took him to John Barrett Salon, expanding his delivery of true luxury service. Working under some of the best masters of the blonde in NY, Sasha is proficient in many coloring techniques, including balayage, ombré, as well as corrective color. Finally, landing in Florida 8 years ago, he delivers resort aesthetic of vibrant, dimensional sun-kissed, to compliment your god given beauty and bring the best version of you forward.
Julio Mayo
Senior Colorist
Julio has an impressive 27 years of experience as a master colorist. Coming from a family in the industry in Cuba, he opened his his first salon. He worked with many celebrities, artists, and sophisticated clientele. He then moved on to working in Europe and mainly Italy for many years building a clientele of celebrities, royalty, and socialites.
He has worked various fashion shows and performances with Papito Valladares a popular hairstylist in Havana and director of the “Arte Corte project.”
His experience also includes working for Telemundo in the Miss Latina Universo beauty contest.
Deborah Sabella
Senior Color and Treatment Specialist
Deborah Sabella , Senior of Color Services ,brings a new way of working by aligning your coloring techniques with your knowledge as a hair therapist, bringing the desired color without harming the health of the hair.
Formed by the Loreal Academy in the course of Master Coiffeur L’Oréal
She worked at the beauty salon of Copacabana Palace a five star luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro.
She seeks to customize the care for each client, harmonizing skin tones with hair tones and using the most appropriate technologies for each one.
Specializing in extensions, she has created her own line of extensions “Sabella Extensions” she have the ability to customize hair color to the extension color to create a look as natural as possible.
Extensions Specialist
Dreisy Fernandez
Extention Specialist
Dreisy Figueroa is a hair extension specialist with extensive years as an educator.
She is known for customizing different methods to give you the most natural look for all hair types.
She specializes in 9 different types hair extensions methods: Tape-In, Invisible Tapes, K-Tip, Micro keratin, I-Tip, Micro Tip, Hand tied, Genius wefts, and Machine weft extensions.
She is the Creator of The Antagonist. A super high end line of extensions that only use double draw cuticle aligned natural hair.
Her line includes curly hair and is exclusive to this salon
Estheticians
Natalia
Esthetician
Natalia is an esthetician with a wide range of skills and training including, skin care, eyelash extensions, Microneedling, permanent makeup, eyebrow pigmentations. She has continued her education into the anti-aging category to include skin resurfacing, and plasma fibroblast skin tightening treatments. Natalia has a devoted clientele of locals and celebrities. Her work ethic is nothing short of impeccable
Samantha Caro
Senior Esthetician
Samantha is an esthetician who specializes in advanced skin care and HydraFacial for over 10 years. She worked alongside Dr. James E. Fulton Jr. known for co inventing Retin-A. Gaining clinical pearls on advance skin care analysis and problematic skin. Her specialties range from deep pore cleansing to skin care rejuvination services. She has an artistic touch in Micro-blading and eyebrow shaping. Known to be a perfectionist in all aspects of her field.
Aesthetic Medicine and Wellness
Dr. Alonso Martin
Dr. Alonso Martin is an award-winning physician from Southern California. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience from UCLA, MD Degree from Michigan State University, and trained in Family Medicine and Health Prevention at the University of California, Irvine. He is a board-certified physician, talented clinician, thought leader, and expert who applies his extensive knowledge of biohacking to beauty and body optimization.
Dr. Martin’s Total Body Biohack Program starts from the inside with bimonthly NAD+ IV infusions, peptide therapy, and plant-based treatments to detox your body. This program features Emsculpt Neo, an award-winning, FDA cleared technology to transform your body by building 25% bigger abs, glutes, arms, and legs, while simultaneously shredding fat in selected areas. He was recently awarded 2022 Best Clinical Outcomes in North America for Emsculpt Neo results. For beauty seekers, he is Florida’s Top Doctor for skin rejuvenation using collagen threads to naturally rejuvenate the face and body.
Nicolas Correa
Medical Concierge
Nicolas comes from a background in real estate sales. Consisting of working in the Miami Beach and Beverly Hills Luxury Markets. His main focus has been concierge and hospitality through real estate during the last 7 years of his career. He joined AM | Beauty & Wellness to strategize growth and optimize client relations.
Now, his focus is client experiences at AM | Beauty & Wellness through concierge and hospitality practices to give every patient an unforgettable curated experience with Doctor Martin. Serves patients every step of the way from guiding the patient through procedures and pricing to follow up and post care.