

Heading Potent — John Fazi operates on the hair of a shopper in September, though marking 60 several years in the hair small business. Fazi is co-owner of Johnmichael hair salon in Weirton.
— Craig Howell

WEIRTON — With 60 many years of encounter reducing hair, John Fazi nonetheless was astonished by all the interest he gained through a celebration of his occupation at the conclude of September.
“It’s a actual blessing and a surprise,” Fazi reported.
The co-operator of Johnmichael, a salon in Weirton, marked six a long time in the slicing and styling business enterprise in September, and was surprised by a celebration structured by his relatives and co-staff which noticed shoppers coming in for a haircut, or even just to check out. Many individuals introduced items to assist mark the event.
“We experienced individuals in and out all working day,” Michael Weaver, co-owner of the salon, said.
Fazi discussed he was encouraged to become a barber by a cousin who experienced been in the business enterprise.
“He was the slickest person I experienced ever found,” he claimed.
Fazi spelled out he had been drafted into the Military, and on returning, his father available to support in get a position at Weirton Steel, anything he made a decision in opposition to in favor of his picked profession.
“I claimed I’d in no way get very hot, cold or dirty,” Fazi mentioned.
A graduate of Wheeling Barber University in 1962, he at first started his neighborhood hair career operating with Paul Altomare just before heading out on his individual to start out his personal shop in 1970. Just one of only two male stylists in the place at the time, Fazi trained in the Roffler procedure, and in 1974 entered, and gained, an intercontinental hair opposition in New York Town.
“I conquer out something like 80 fellas from all more than the globe,” he reported.
He adopted that by getting a system artist for men’s and women’s hairstyles, attending trade shows and showcasing his techniques in front of the crowds, when educating other folks in the company.
In 1992, My Put became Hair by Fazi, and then, at some point shifting from downtown Weirton to its current Three Springs Generate locale and becoming renamed Johnmichael in honor of the two Fazi and Weaver.
Fazi assured he has no options to retire, expressing coming into the salon each individual get the job done working day gives him an option to interact and listen to from the local community.
“It’s not income that keeps me here. It is the socialization,” he claimed.
Fazi admitted, while, he experienced under no circumstances supplied a lot imagined to the impression he had on his prospects over the a long time, and was touched that so many took time out of their working day to appear see him.
“These are mates I never understood I had,” he reported.









