SOTOSALONSPA.COM - Key Persons


Ally Stricker

Job Titles:
  • Licensed Nail Technician
Ally is a Licensed Nail Technician who specializes in natural and acrylic nails. Guests love the attention to detail and care that Ally provides during her services. Ally is a proud mom of a little girl!

AnaLicia Duell

AnaLicia is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician. She is certified in Borboleta Lash Extensions for both classic and volume looks. Her serene touch also provides relaxing and customized facial services.

Andrea Velez

Andrea is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician. She is certified in NovaLash Lash Extensions. Her goal is always to provide a lash look that will create easier maintenance for your lifestyle. Andrea also provides customized skincare treatments.

Becca Quintanilla

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist
Becca is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist at Soto. Her artistic talent creates beautiful makeup looks. Becca is certified in Relaxation Massage and loves to incorporate massage with her facial treatments. One fun fact about Becca is that she loves plants, especially succulents!

Carly Kaufman

Carly specializes in natural nail services, paying close attention to every detail. She loves a classic french manicure as well as bold designs. Her passion is making people feel beautiful on the inside and out; providing long lasting nails to add magic to your every day lives.

Chelsey Curry

Chelsey is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist, Educator and Partner at Soto. She specializes in Fine Hair and Hair Extensions. She is passionate about education and providing her guests with the latest trends and techniques. Chelsey is Redken Design Certified, Redken Color Certified, Aqua Hair Extensions Certified and Keratin Complex Certified. One fun fact about Chelsey is that she is a mom of 3 and loves to travel!

Chloe Kouts

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Cosmetologist and Skin Specialist
Chloe is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist and Skin Specialist at Soto. She specializes in full body waxing and corrective skin care. Chloe is also certified in Relaxation Massage. One fun fact about Chloe is that she loves aquariums and has 3 aquariums in her home. As much as she loves them, she refuses to touch the fish!

Christa Pawlaczyk

Christa is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician. Her expertise in skincare has helped her guests find solutions to their skincare concerns. Christa continues her education with product brands Dermalogica, SkinCeuticals and PCA Skin.

Courtney Clemons

Courtney is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist here at Soto. He loves doing highlights, color, full cuts on men, women and children. Courtney is always excited to connect with new people and excels at creating a fun and relaxed space for himself and his guests to discover their hair goals together. In his free time, Courtney enjoys being on his Harley and spending time with his wife, friends and family.

Dana Heaton

Job Titles:
  • Specialist
Dana is a skincare specialist with a passion for skincare and helping her guests feel ultimate relaxation. She strives to provide results-focused experiences for guests while working diligently to find an effective home-care routine for clients. Dana also specializes in waxing, tinting and lash lifts.

Emilia Patterson

Emilia loves to do any color with brunettes! She loves doing subtle brunette balayages, caramel balayages, and deep chocolate brown colors

Hailey Overmyer

Hailey is a licensed Advanced Cosmetologist who specializes in hair coloring and hair cutting! She is passionate about personalizing your hair goals to fit your lifestyle. Hailey also loves giving blow out styles after every service! In her free time she loves to go thrifting, bake sweet treats, and take nature walks with her daughter!

Hannah Carrillo

Hannah is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist at Soto specializing in hair cuts, hair color and natural nail care services. She is certified in Hand Tied Weft Hair Extensions. Hannah loves to create looks for her guests that can be versatile to their lifestyles. One fun fact about Hannah is that she loves the outdoors and exploring!

Jenna Gibson

Jenna is an Advanced Cosmetologist loves all things blondes including balayage! Her number one priority is to provide services that help you achieve your dream hair goals, while creating a fun, upbeat, safe-space environment for all of my guests. She wants to get to know you and your desired hair results.

Jennifer O'Connor

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Cosmetologist and Partner
Jennifer is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist and Partner at Soto. Her years of experience in the beauty industry has taken her to backstage of New York Fashion Week creating looks for many designers. She specializes in Hair Design and Hair Extensions and holds her Redken Design Certification and Fusion Extension Certification. One fun fact about Jennifer is that she loves when she can vacation with her family in the same household!

Jessica Johnson

Jessica is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist, Instructor and Partner of Soto. Her decades of experiences creating overall image consulting has provided many guests with the confidence to embrace their beauty. She specializes in Fine Hair, Fusion Hair Extensions and Highlighting. Jessica holds certifications with Redken as Design Certified, Certified Hair Colorist, Stylist Certified; as well as with Great Lengths and Hair Dreams for hair extensions. Jessica is a science and technology lover, Mother of 3 and in her free time is keeping up with her health and fitness lifestyle. She is a lover of adventure and beauty.

Joni Howard

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist
Joni is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist at Soto. Her specialities include sugaring hair removal, corrective skincare and lash lifts. Her extensive training with brands like Alexandria Sugaring Professional, FarmHouse Fresh, SkinCeuticals, PCA Skin, Bio-Therapeutics and Dermalogica give her the knowledge to create a truly customized beauty experience with her guests. One fun fact about Joni is she is a busy mom of 4! She truly understands that your time for self-care is limited and wants to make sure you are able to experience true relaxation when you can.

Jules Molina

Job Titles:
  • Senior Educator and Partner
Jules Molina is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist, Senior Educator and Partner at Soto. Her passion is to create customized looks to fit your lifestyle, all while having a fun experience in her chair. She specializes in Balayage and Hair Extensions. Jules is also Redken Design Certified and a Redken Certified Colorist. Jules love traveling and going on adventures! Ask her for travel recommendations at your next reservation.

Lauren Updike

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist
Lauren is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician and Makeup Artist at Soto. She has won Best Makeup Artist by Toledo City Paper in 2020. Lauren understands that good skin is the foundation to beautiful makeup, so she works with her guests on creating skincare regimens to support their flawless look.

Liz Jozefowicz

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Cosmetologist and Nail Technician
Liz is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist and Nail Technician at Soto. She specializes in Blondes, Vivids and Brunettes hair color. Liz's attention to detail and art creates beautiful nails whether it is Hard Gel Nails or Nail Art. One fun fact about Liz is that she is very crafty!

McKenzie Whelan

McKenzie is the Spa Lead for Guest Services and always provides exceptional guest care.

Molly Getz

Molly is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist, Senior Educator, Partner and Redken Artist. Her specialities include Short Haircuts, Corrective Color, Lived-in Blondes and Blow-dry Finishing. Molly's passion for education has allowed her to have extensive training with the industry's top professionals. She is Redken Certified in Hair Color, Design, Balayage and Finishing, as well as Keratin Complex Certified and Aqua Hand-Tied Weft Extensions Certified. Fun fact about Molly is she is a mom of 2, with a friendly-competitive nature and a huge shoe collection!

Rena Pinson

Rena is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist. Her love for beauty allows her to create looks to fit her guest's needs and lifestyle. She specializes in natural color and grey coverage. One fun fact about Rena is her favorite place to visit is the beach!

Rylie Thorstenson

Rylie absolutely loves all body waxing and brow laminations! She has a wonderful attention to detail to put her complete focus into every service and loves connecting with guests.

Samantha Pawliski

Samantha is a Licensed Cosmetologist and enjoys time with her guests assisting them in discovering looks that will work the best for their life and personal style.

Sara Sprow

Sara is a Licensed Massage Therapist. She specializes in Swedish, Therapeutic, Deep Tissue Massages. Sara loves to provide her guests with relief from their everyday aches and pains.

Sierra Buck-Henson

Sierra is a Licensed Advanced Esthetician. She enjoys working with guests on their skincare concerns and maintaining optimum skin health. Sierra understands that time is limited for self-care, so she always makes sure her guests receive ultimate relaxation during their services.

Sydney Hessler

Sydney loves making people feel confident about themselves through their hair. She is an expert in blonding and bronding as well as lived in color services. Outside of the salon Sydney is an avid reader and enjoys simple pleasures like baking and running with goals to travel more!

Tatum Miller

Tatum is an Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist. She loves blonding and haircolor.

Tawni Ohlrich

Tawni is a Licensed Advanced Cosmetologist and Senior Educator at Soto. Her attention to detail allows her to give a full beauty experience to her guests. Her specialities include: Balayage, Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads, keratin and hand tied weft extensions. Tawni is a Redken Certified Colorist, Redken Design Certified and Aqua Hand Tied Weft Certified. One fun fact about Tawni is that she loves to crochet in her downtime!

Valentina Beene

Valentina loves to do, pretty much, anything related to the care of our hands and feet! Her expertise can be attributed to her genuine concern for the guest's needs, plus years of experience.

Victoria Perry

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Esthetician and Partner
Victoria is Licensed Advanced Esthetician and Partner at Soto. Her many years of experience in the esthetics industry has brought her opportunities to travel and teach other spa professionals about the beauty business. When she is in the treatment room she specializes in facial treatments. She continues to grow her education of esthetics with brands Dermalogica and SkinCeuticals.