I started doing bikini waxes 45 years ago in Romania. I learned from my grandmother and practiced on friends. When I was 20, I went to beauty school, where they taught us how to wax a client.
I moved to New York City in 1987 and worked at a hair salon, then at Kimara Ahnert on the Upper East Side. I opened my own salon, Maris Dusan, on Park Avenue 15 years ago. At its peak, before the pandemic, I had 30 people on the wait list every day.
