Biography
30-year-old, Octavio Molina, launched his career at the iconic Juan Juan Salon in Beverly Hills, where the A-List client roster included celebrities like Julia Roberts, Kristin Stewart, January Jones, Ricky Lake and Jeremy Piven.
Whether he’s working for designers at New York Fashion Week, models on a catalogue for Target shoot, or producers behind-the-scenes at Extra TV, Molina always bring a fresh and innovative approach to styling.
As a creative collaborator with TIGI Hair Care, Molina travels internationally teaching and creating looks for various magazines, trade shows and fashion weeks. While he works with men and women of all ages, his major areas of expertise is men’s hair styling and grooming.
When he is not working behind the chair at his studio in Santa Monica, California, Octavio collaborates with an eclectic mix of photographers creating the latest hair concepts, styling and design.
His work has been featured across multiple-mediaplatforms including Extra, CNN, Vanity Fair, and logomag.com. He also is one of the creative styling forces behind the annual calendars for The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and The Denver Broncos Cheerleaders.
Octavio’s love for hair emanated from his Latin heritage, where the women surrounding him always placed prominent importance on exceptional hair care and meticulous styling . “I see beauty as a reflection of who we are internally, and my passion is to help clients translate their own inner beauty and to express their individual confidence and style”.
