About us

Janneke.

In 1978 Janneke started her career as a hairstylist. After 4 years of training hair at school, she graduated with all degrees in male and female hairstyling and in make-up.

For eleven years janneke worked in renowned salons in The Netherlands, the last five years as a manager. In these years she went to many international styling events and continued keeping her styling skills up to date. In the salon she trained students to compete in hairstyling competitions where they have won many awards. In 1989 she opened her first salon in Drenthe. 5 years later she moved to Bonaire where she opened hair boutique Kuifje. After three years on the island she moved back to The Netherlands and opened another salon. After going back and forth she finally settled at Bonaire in the year 2000. A year later she took over Hairaffair, which since then is growing exponentially.

Now we keep differentiating ourselves and the salon by keeping up to date in make-up and hairstyling through internet, literature and the latest DVD’s from top hairstylists from England.

Barbel.
Barbel started her career differently. Her passion was doing make-up so she started a makeup course in Amsterdam at the school of Mieke Petiet. After that she continued a four yea course at Studio Bessels learning television-, stage- and beauty makeup, special effects and making wigs etc. She still felt she was missing something and that was styling hair. So she went to the hairdressing school.

After finishing hairstyling school and having worked in different salons, she started working as a top stylist at Koffijberg Hairdressers in Amsterdam. In two years she developed herself as a master stylist, color specialist, extensions specialist and became manager of the salon. She was also responsible for training the new stylists. Barbel combined all her areas of expertise in doing make-overs in the salon. Koffijberg Hairdressers did all the hairstyling for the dutch magazine Prive. Koffijberg Hairdressers and Barbel gave courses fo L’oreal Professionel and participated in their shows.
But The Netherlands became too cold for Babel so she decided to move to Bonaire and started to work at Hairafair.

Making people even more beautiful.
Both of us have chosen this line of work and we still feel that we have a wonderful job. What is more beautiful than making others more beautiful.