About Us — BRENTON LEE SALON

Brenton Lee started cutting hair at the age of fourteen. He found his niche as a hair artist and enrolled into beauty school at 16 years of age. Enrolled into L.A. Trade Tech is where he studied cosmetology and business. Brenton Lee has competed in numerous hairstyling competitions nation wide winning over 20 hairstyling awards. He is owner and stylist of Brenton Lee Salon, which was launched in 2012, a trendy salon in Pasadena, CA and a Design Team Artist/educator for Wella. Brenton Lee travels throughout the U.S. training and teaching at major hair shows. One of his main focuses for the hair industry is to give back by teaching young professionals and offering his talents to support charities.

As a celebrity hair stylist, his work has been on red carpet events and t.v. shows, working with celebrities, such as Nia Long, Lindsay Lohan, Melody Scott Thomas, MC Lyte, and Susan Anton. He loves to be behind the scenes and has worked on many fashion shows and editorial photo shoots. He has been published in national hair magazines, such as Modern Salon mag., American Salon mag., HairShow Mag, Canadian Hairdresser mag., BehindTheChair.com mag, etc., for his award winning looks.

Brenton Lee’s forte is to sculpt his client’s hair to fit their face shape, personality and lifestyle. Still “Oh so young” and driven his talents inspire him to be innovative and imaginative when creating trendsetting hairstyles.

OTHER MAJOR CREDITS INCLUDE:

Hairstylist of the year 2011 (S.I.B.E)
Wella Trend Vision National Finalist 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Key Hair stylist for Michael Jacksons “We are the World”
Rising Star ICON award 2012 (Bronner Bros)
Wella Trend Vision National Gold Winner 2014

Julie’s first passion has always been fashion. She graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Management. After college, Julie pursued her career as a Fashion Stylist, styling celebrities and fashion runways. In 2012, Julie co-founded Brenton Lee Salon at the age of 23. There, Julie grew her love for the hair industry and began traveling to different hair shows all over the world with Brenton Lee Pro. In 2015, after deciding to enroll in beauty school, Julie won 1st place in Wella’s National Trend Vision Hair Competition.

Currently, Julie enjoys being creative behind the scenes on photo shoots or runways when she is not behind the chair tailoring to her clients. To give back, she travels to New York as a volunteer for a nonprofit organization to cut, color and style hair for men and women from around the world.

Specializing in hair color and ethnic hair, Julie stays on trend and strives to provide excellent service and build one on one relationships with her guests.

LUPITA GOMEZ

Graduated from Los Angeles Trade Tech College, Lupita burst into the beauty world through her work for Debbie Allen’s “ Hot Chocolate Nut Cracker”. Leaving an incredible impression on her team and mentor.

While attending school, she was taking extra steps to become a color expert. In the form of, taking extra classes in order to expand her knowledge. She is now looking forward on bringing joy to her clients and spreading her positive energy by making sure every client leaves happy. All in the efforts of becoming one of the best colorist in the industry.

Her expansive portfolio has an emphasis in color, consisting of balayage techniques, highlights (meduim or chunky highlights) and retouch color. Working for renown colorist, Brenton Lee , she now practices her art at Brenton Lee Salon.