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- By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
: , Gail Brandon has style, taste and everything else
that makes others wonder; 'What does she have that
V . I don't?'
She's more than glad to tell you.
Just three months ago, the 30-year-old licensed
cosmetologist, color analyst, makeup and facial expert
opened lmagemakers, a multi-purpose salon for
' both men and women, specializing in personal care
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from pedicures to new wardrobes.
"1 have a new concept here,"says the Winston:
Salem native. "But it's geared toward the career man
: or woman who might not be able to afford to go to
Montaldos, and I'm confident that it'll work or I
: i-, wouldn't have done all this."
: z:' Brandon in rli#?ntc ? r - - -
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?. I change in their overall appearance. Like the
; magazine makeovers, she turns a once plain Jane or
Jim into whatever look it is they want to capture or
.whatever style Brandon thinks best suits them.
Once an English literature major at the University
: of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brandon says she
had always displayed a talent for art and designing.
After realizing Carolina wasn't where she wanted to
r, ? be, she went to Atlanta. There, Brandon earned a
: : degree in fashion merchandising from Bauder Colt
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! "1 used to want to be an architect," she says, "but
2 I didn't like the math. Then I thought about being a
? : makeup artist. I only majored in English lit because I
? I. was good at it.
c really wanted to study something in the artrelated
field," Brandon says, "but there wasn't
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Gwendolyn J. Andrews
Andrews is selected
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uwenaoiyn j. Andrews, ing executives representing
currently director of Nurs- 23 states and approximately
ing at North Carolina Bap- 2 percent of all hospital
tist Hospital Inc., has been beds in the nation,
named one of 40 senior nur- "We are pleased about
sing executives selected na- the high caliber of all the
tionwide from large applicants for this year's
teaching hospitals to par- program and especially the
ticipate in a highly com- group we have selected to
petitive management educa- participate, said program
tion program at the Univer- director Sheldon Rovin and
' sity of Pennsylvannia's professor of health care
Wharton School. systems at Wharton.
The Johnson & Johnson- "Gwendolyn J. Andrews is
Wharton Fellows Program one of the top professionals
in Nfanagcfwerrt fop- in, th&nuwin#, field, and.is. in.
"Philadetphia cafrrrptrs Jtme- nvake' practical the ^
3-22. The program is an in- knowledge to be gained.^
tensive, pioneering effort to here."
develop leadership, Only applicants
management and financial nominated by their
skills of senior nursing ex- hospitals' chief executive
ecutives, most of whom officers were considered for
oversee budgets that rival partcipation. Those CEO's
the size of many private will be joining their nurse
corporations. executives for the final two
The 1984 program, con- davs of the program to
ducted cooperatively with devise hospital applications
the University's School of of the skills acquired at
Nursing, will include nurs- Wharton.
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Calendar From Page
week to help distribute food to agencies. Please call
Nan Holbrook at 724-7025.
- Silas Creek Manor needs a bingo caller on Tuesday .
at 1:30 p.m. for an hour and a half. For more information,
call Mary Keller at 765-0550.
- Adults and/or children are needed to visit a small
group of older adults. For information, contact
Susan Parks at 724-7598.
For more information on these or other volunteer
opportunities, contact the VAC at 724-7474.
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anything there (Carolina)."
After Bauder came her cosmetology training,
where she studied under the wings of the internationally
known hair stylist Frank Arnold of the
Frank Arnold School of Cosmetology in Atlanta. In
1980, Brandon was hired by Soft Sheen Products of
Chicago as a marketing representative.
"I was traveling all the time," she says, "and going
in and out of these little towns. 1 just got tired of
all that traveling."
Again, Brandon realized she wasn't doing what she
enjoyed, so it was back to Atlanta, where she worked
in a hair salon. Another move sent her to Louisville,
Ky. Her hairstylist at lmagemakers, Darrell Jones,
managed "the salon where Brandon worked-in
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, that's because sometimes men aren't comfortable
with women in authority ... "
--Gail Brandon
Louisville.
When she decided she would go into business for
herself, Brandon coaxed Jones, a specialist in hair
care, into coming home to Winston-Salem with her
last September.
A grand opening a couple a weeks ago has Brandon
excited about her venture.
The salon, located just across from the new
Winston Plaza Hotel on Fifth Street, has a good view
inside and out. A friend of Brandon's spots her in the
elegantly designed salon and stops by for a brief mar
ment to extend his congratulations.
"You said you were gonna do it," he says, taking
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admiring glances at Brandon and what she's done.
"Yeah," she says, "1 did it."
A few curious passersby peek inside the window
and Brandon stretches up from the couch to return
the attention.
Chatting with her is almost like being on a ship
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moment is the direction the conversation takes.
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Iromen is the aim of Gail Brandon, owner of Im|ing
in complete makeovers (photo by James
didn't want anything overly feminine or overly
masculine. My subconscious told me to choose this
color scheme."
Indeed, the salon is neither masculine nor
feminine. The tone is neutral and earthy.
To the back of the large salon, her only hairstylist,
Jones, puts final touches on a customer's hair. Even
further back are her special personal care rooms. One <
is specifically for makeup makeovers and the other is
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