Layla Dudley, owner and Star stylist

Layla is a northwest native who grew up in both Washington and Oregon, but has made her home in Eugene for the past 20 years. 

Hair was not Layla’s first career path. She got her degree in Biology in 1999 from Whitman College and spent her first few years out of school as a medical research assistant at OHSU. This experience taught her that she loved learning science, but not the repetitive, mind numbing task of gathering the data. She needed something with more variety.

 Her path to hair was not an obvious one. She was part of a bellydance troupe, Tribalation! in 2004 when she was gifted a hair fall from her troupe mate Joy. This gift spawned a love of creating hair pieces filled with yarn, braids, and of course, locs! By 2005, she created a website selling her hair pieces to bellydancers, fire performers, and festival goers around the world.

In 2007, she took her love of creative hair to beauty school and found the career where she felt right at home. As the years go on, working with her clients and their unique hair needs has never been boring, and provides her with an ongoing challenge. As a salon owner, she is dedicated to passing on her love of hair to the next generation of stylists.