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Wig Designer Helps Take the Trauma out of Hair Loss
Teaneck's Design by Flora features private setting and personalized attention
Flora Shepelsky, owner of Design by Flora on Cedar Lane, said she greets all of her clients with a warm hug when they enter her business. It’s that sort of personal touch – coupled with her beautiful creations – that have helped Shepelsky grow her wig business from one customer back in 2006 to thousands of customers worldwide today. The Russian native, who moved to Israel at age 5 and then to America at age 12, signed up at a New York City beauty school at the age of 16 to earn her hair-dressing license. While attending school, she got a job on the side doing wigs. “I was learning everything from scratch. I was so young then, so I was like a sponge,” said Shepelsky, of Closter. “The woman I actually worked with was from Hungary, and she …
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