- April 19, 2024
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Tamera Mauk took over and renovated Beauty and the Beach salon four months ago with every cent she had.
Tamera Mauk has been working for and managing Flagler salons since she was 18 years old. But about four months ago, she wanted a change. She wanted to own one. And so, after managing Beauty and the Beach salon, at 819 N. Oceanshore Blvd., for about a year, she purchased it from the previous owner. Then she got to work.
With her boyfriend, Mauk gutted the place and hand-built two new rooms onto the store. She installed hardwood floors. She redid the plumbing. A freelance artist, she refurbished then reupholstered old furniture and painted murals on the walls. She turned old junk rooms into shampoo stations and facial message parlors.
Eight months of work and about $3,000 later, Beauty and the Beach was reborn, and re-imagined with a “shabby-chic” eye. It was no longer just another place where Mauk worked; it was hers. She owned something, which she built, literally, from the ground up.
“I finally crossed that (entrepreneurial) line and took a chance,” Mauk said. “I started with zero capital. I bought the business with every penny I had.”
Mauk calls her company “basically a one-woman show.” Including her, two stylists and a couple assistants comprise the staff. But that’s all she needs.
“I find that my artistic ability has been able to make me such a great hair-dresser,” she said. And it’s given her salon a unique atmosphere, one she touts in her company catchphrase: “Let our artist eye create a look for you.”
“I’m going to keep going,” she said of renovations and design. “If I get bored, we get slow, I start painting. I like to constantly change the interior of the salon … It’s so beautiful, so I’m very proud of it.”
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