Team – MAISON NOI

Our skill levels and experience may vary, but all of us are passionate, eager to learn and grow, and determined to make you think of Maison Noi as your hair salon for years to come.

Our booking system allows you to pick your stylist. If you don’t know us, yet, here are quick portraits of our team members, to help you choose.

ROBIN

An eclectic and curious mind

he quietly works on thinking up better ways to do all sorts of things. This means being an attentive listener and being interested in all kinds of topics, in both English and French. Robin loves to teach and to learn, and to refine his skills, often attending courses with trendsetters in the hair and fashion industry. A creative manager, he is keen on ditching obsolete business models and trying new ones, more in tune with our modern ways AND with his vision for a kinder society.

Robin knows how to mix Aveda colours, both by the book and with his own personal formulas

Robin worked backstage at the New York Fashion Week in 2018

Robin loves to cook – Chinese, Vietnamese, French, Italian, Indian, Korean… he keeps exploring!

Robin and Emilie can try up to five or six restaurants a day when traveling!

EMILIE

A born curator

she surrounds herself with beautiful, well designed, quality things. Refined, uncompromising when it comes to quality and elegance, she dedicates her full attention and care to everything she does, including her craft. She keeps learning new techniques and styles, traveling all over North-America to find the best courses. Well-traveled, well-dined, well-dressed, Emilie can also be a great bilingual guide to the most interesting places and trends around Ottawa and beyond. She is always generous with her time and attention, including with the younger colleagues whom she mentors.

Emilie works with golden precision scissors hand-made in Japan

Emilie studied photography and has a great eye for style

Emilie can give you restaurant recommendations in New York, Paris, London, but also Reykjavik, Montreal, or Toulouse

Emilie and Robin have a Gin collection

THWE

An attentive listener

she enthusiastically turns every interaction into a cheerful exchange, she credits her steady improvement as a stylist to her attention to clients’ requests. Thwe loves being part of tight-knit and friendly communities, like Maison Noi, where everyone is encouraged to grow and blossom. Born in Myanmar, she resettled in Canada at a young age and is always eager to continue discovering new places, new people, new styles, new skills, and new talents she hasn’t tapped into yet.

Thwe might look reserved but, give her a mike or point a camera at her and the hidden performer comes out. She is a singer and could see herself as an actress

Thwe can tell you about Burmese coffee, a hidden secret that’s being discovered by Western coffee aficionados

NICOLE

A focused and adaptable team player

She is attentive to her colleagues’ needs and her work in the background contributes to Maison Noi’s smooth operations. Yet, at the same time, Nicole is highly focused on her goal of becoming a trained stylist, a skill that satisfies her interest in arts and in people.

Nicole dreams big and strategically seizes opportunities to turn her dreams into realities

Nicole was born in Myanmar, raised in Malaysia, and she was 9 when she discovered Canada and its many surprises, starting with weird freezing cold fluff called snow.

HAESOL

A brave and generous soul

she takes life in stride—after traveling to 11 countries, she left South Korea to settle on her own in Canada and bravely started building her life and career here. Haesol chose the beauty industry because she felt this was a way she could contribute to people’s happiness and wellbeing. This is a powerful motivation in her studies and in her work. Haesol is a fast and determined learner.

Haesol loves spicy food and noodles, in part because they taste like home!

Haesol has a happy smile on her face when she gets to play with makeup.

CHRISTINAL PÉREZ L

A seeker of beauty on and off screens

she discovered the beauty industry as a child, through television shows, and she has since been working on expanding her skills and knowledge. She moved to Canada in 2021 and graduated with Honors from Algonquin as a Hairstylist. She misses her home town where the sun set on the beach but she enjoys spending her days enhancing people’s beauty, with passion and a touch of humour. Cristina speaks Spanish and English.

Cristina’s dream would be to work in film as a hairstylist, not only styling actors’ hair but also creating character hairstyles

Cristina loves her tacos! Rare are the foods that are too spicy for her and she always has a bottle of hot sauce on the table, to add heat to… everything!

THAI PHAM

A hair architect

His attention to detail and shape didn’t wane when his move to Canada prompted a radical career change. After studying architecture in Vietnam, he studied at Algonquin College to become a hair stylist. In his free time, he likes to design bold sculptural hairdos on mannequins. He speaks Vietnamese and English.

Thai always enjoyed cutting his own hair. He was happy to discover that he also likes styling other people’s hair.

Thai grew up in Vietnam and still craves his country’s foods. This is why he loves fruit and enjoys cooking Vietnamese dishes.

KATERINA SHOSTAK

A European stylist with patient hands,

she embraces change and picks up skills and inspiration along the way. She grew up in Ukraine, lived in Poland for five years, and now calls Canada home. In Europe, she learned new hairdressing techniques that she is happy to apply in her work at Maison Noi. Having worked with a team of wedding stylists, she loves creating hairstyles for special occasions.

Katerina loves to draw and do various crafts with her hands. She feels the many hours she spent making things made her patient and calm in everything she does

Katerina speaks four languages—Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and English.