While working along side some of the top hairstylists in Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego, Sherri Belanger honed in on her skill and passion to make clients look and feel glamorous. She prides herself on listening to her clients’ needs to create personalized and gorgeous hair color and styles, while always keeping the integrity of their hair her top priority. Sherri is a passionate person, and not only loves doing hair, but loves the relationship she builds with her clients.

For over 16 years Sherri has been creating her own techniques when it comes to her hairstyling methods, most notably her signature blonde colors she creates for her celebrity clients. Early on in her career she was lucky enough to assist and train under Jean-Philippe of La Jolla and Bumble and Bumble in New York City. A few years later she made her dreams come true by moving to Los Angeles and becoming the hairstylist to many of Hollywood’s elite and some of your favorite celebrities. She has also appeared as a hair expert on national television and has had countless write ups online and in magazines.
After 5 years in Los Angeles Sherri decided that San Diego is where her heart would always be, so she relocated back to the beaches of La Jolla and opened her unique salon concept, Belle Sirène. This salon has been brewing in her heart her whole career and she’s made sure no detail has been left out. Being so busy behind the chair Sherri has hand selected the stylists that work along her side that provide the same level of service and care as she. If you can’t get an appointment with her trust that you will be in great hands with any of her stylists.

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.” Yves Saint Laurent

Kathleen started her career in fashion and beauty at the prestigious Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, California. At Sassoon, Kathleen gained a solid foundation for cutting, coloring and styling hair. She learned not only basic techniques but also advanced cutting and coloring from the start. While attending Vidal Sassoon, Kathleen learned the value of education and keeping the integrity of the hair. She loves to bring out the beauty in her client’s hair by paying close attention to growth patterns and natural textures. She still attributes her growing career to the foundation she received at Vidal Sassoon. After cosmetology school, Kathleen assisted two master stylists in Southern California over an eighteen month period. After assisting, she worked independently, always striving to be better, to gain more skills, more techniques, more knowledge.

Kathleen believes the only way to stay current in the beauty industry is by continued education. Once on her own behind the chair, she became a Bumble and Bumble network educator. Kathleen took many classes at Bumble and Bumble in New York City and would return to teach the fresh techniques to her co-workers. Kathleen thrived in this role and attributes many of her successes to combining the training she learned at Bumble and bumble and Sassoon along with many other classes. She recently attended the “Business of Balayage” classes in Costa Mesa, California. Kathleen is keen on listening to what her clients want, along with keeping the integrity and health of their hair. She strongly values the relationships with her clients and creates a custom look for every person that sits in her chair.

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” -Thomas Edison

Never complacent and always striving to be better, Brian has trained and been mentored from Beverly Hills to New York with hairstylists of global influence, including Hector Rodriguez, Philip Wolff and Chief Behr. Brian won a nationwide hair styling competition held by Rene Furtherer and his work has been published in leading industry and fashion magazines including Modern Salon and Maxim.

Born and raised in San Francisco, the smart, crisp aesthetic of The City permeates through Brian’s work. Brian prides himself on his ability to amplify each client’s profound and unique beauty. He believes in thorough and thoughtful consultation with each and every client, not commencing a cut, color or style until there is a shared vision between him and his client. Upon this bedrock he executes some of the most artistically expressive haircuts and styles in Southern California. Brian has always been drawn to classically beautiful and handsome hair that’s healthy above all else. Hair integrity is of the utmost importance to Brian. He discerns relevance in today’s trend and fad-obsessed world we live in, drawing inspiration from architecture, fashion, art, and music to name a few.

Brian enjoys amazing relationships with each of his clients and he is attentive to their every need. When his dear friend Sherri asked him to be a part of the Belle Sirène family, he agreed without reservation. Every detail of this astoundingly beautiful salon has been impeccably curated with the client and stylist in mind. Modern and luxurious yet comfortable and cozy, everyone from Bird Rock surfers to red carpet royalty are writing their hair stories at Belle Sirène. Brian can’t wait to meet you and share a truly one-of-a-kind experience with you in the jewel of La Jolla, Belle Sirène Salon!

Lorena’s passion for hairdressing came early on as a young child playing “beauty salon” on her play dates. Shortly after high school Lorena moved to Los Angeles to get her creative juices flowing and attended a prestigious cosmetology school.

After 11 years in LA, Lorena relocated to San Diego and planted her heels in Belle Sirène Salon. Lorena had the amazing opportunity to assist celebrity hairstylist and salon owner Sherri Belanger for over a year. Working alongside Sherri with her high profile clientele, Lorena was able to hone in on Sherri’s unique techniques and special blonding formulations. Lorena learned first hand how to create transformative looks while keeping clients hair integrity top priority.

Her favorite looks to create are beach blonde babes, sun kissed hair placement, shiny-rich brunettes, long layers, and bouncy blowouts. Consultation is extremely important to Lorena and she understands that hair is one of our most important accessories.

Lorena believes continued education is essential is a hairdressers career. She attends prestigious academy’s and specialty classes to keep up to date with the hair trends, recently becoming certified in the Business of Balayage advanced course. She is excited to connect with new clients and provide beautiful hair at Belle Sirène.

Richelle has been a licensed cosmetologist for over 12 years working in top salons in La Jolla. She has continued to learn and grow as a professional stylist training in New York and throughout Southern California. Education is key for growth and the ability to bring new things to her clients.

Some of Richelle’s signature looks include creating soft lived in color, bright sparkly blondes and delicious brunettes. She also specializes in hair extensions to enhance your hair further. Getting to know new people and making them feel like their best version of themselves is what she loves most about this career. You are sure to leave with gorgeous hair and a big smile.

Being from San Diego, Rachel is a colorist that has an eye and vision for creating the perfect beach blonde and “lived in” hair color. She began her career hungry for education. She’s participated in a variety of classes ranging from precision cutting with Vidal Sassoon, specialty color training with Schwarzkopf, highlighting with Toni and Guy, balayage courses and many more. Rachel worked as a color specialist at the infamous Toni and Guy Salon in Newport Beach and Mission Viejo. At Toni and Guy, Rachel not only worked behind the chair, she also became a part of their artistic team as an educator for the salon.

After four years with Toni and Guy, Rachel’s heart brought her back to San Diego, ready to expand her career. Rachel worked steadily to rebuild her clientele and continually refine her color skills working alongside Carly Zanoni as her apprentice at Belle Sirène. Rachel mastered her technique around a low maintenance, dimensional look. Through years of guidance from Southern California’s top stylists, Rachel’s style has flourished into a modern lived-in design that is achieved through thoughtful, quality work.

Julia’s love for hair started at a young age when her mom would take her along to her hair appointments. While at the salon with her mom Julia was mesmerized by the whole process, from watching stylists put in foil after foil to executing a flawless haircut, she loved every second. Shortly after high school she attended cosmetology school and right out of school got hired at one of the top salons in Saratoga, CA. From there Julia got the opportunity to full time assist one of the master stylists, who is an educator for Redken.

While assisting her for two years Julia was flooded with knowledge of advanced techniques in color, cutting, and styling and created a strong foundation for her skills. Julia believes in constantly continuing her education and loves to take classes that allow her to stay updated on the latest techniques in all things hair. As a self proclaimed perfectionist Julia has a great attention to detail which helps her create stunning looks for all her clients.

Julia loves to bring out her clients beauty by creating bright lived in blondes and rich dimensional brunettes. She fell in love with all the gorgeous and thoughtful details inside of Belle Sirène and how the salon truly cares for the guest experience from the moment you walk in. Julia was born and raised in Sunnyvale, Ca and has recently moved to San Diego and is excited to catapult her career to the next level in the beautiful city of La Jolla.

From the young age of 14, Reagan began his hair journey. With no intention of turning it into a career, word quickly spread about a young man cutting hair with fine attention to detail all from his garage. He continued to do hair this way for many years before he took a leap of faith and decided to enroll into cosmetology school. Reagan studied at Seattle Washington’s highly esteemed Gene Juarez Academy and hasn’t looked back since. He continued his education at the Gene Juarez Advanced Training Salon where he made a decision to specialize in cutting and styling. After 3 years as a cutting specialist Reagan craved more and decided to learn and master the art of hair color. He joined a team of highly sought out colorists in the Seattle region where he learned advanced color knowledge. Since then his ambition to be a great colorist led him to seek out even more education around the country with some of the best in the business. ”I believe continuing education is the forefront of creating the best stylist within, from being all around inspired to gathering new ideas and techniques.”

Reagan is originally from Hawaii where he gathers inspiration from the surfers and sun bathed babes. He loves creating looks that mimic hair that’s lightened by the sun, ranging from natural sun kissed with more dimension to all over bright blonde. He loves to finish with a wind blown glam style and is so excited to connect and make new relationships with his team and clients as he begins his new journey here in La Jolla, CA with team at Belle Sirene.

Reagans advanced education has been with Johnny Ramirez, Alen M., and Anh co Tran of Los Angeles, as well as Oribe platform and runway artist Kien Hoang.
With great passion and attention to detail, Reagan has styled some of Seattle’s most renowned celebrities including Microsofts CEO Melinda Gates, CNBC newscaster Rebecca Quick and Seattle Seahawks NFL Cheerleaders, the Seagals.

Jennifers passion for hair and making people feel beautiful, started in Los Angeles where she attended Vidal Sassoon Academy. With a drive to work amongst Hollywood’s elite, she landed a position at one one of the top salons in West Hollywood, Alen M Femme Couffiure. While there Jennifer had opportunity to assist and work along side celebrity stylist Jean Pierre Sosa. Although grateful and honored to work in this role, Jennifer felt a pull to move to the beautiful city of San Diego.

Wanting to submerge herself even further into advanced knowledge of blonding, she landed a position assisting Belle Sirène Salon owner, celebrity stylist Sherri Belanger. She continued to learn the art of blonding and creating sun kissed coloring, which has become a staple service Jennifer is known for.

Advanced education is very important to her and she continues to attend master classes to continue evolving her skills. When this Tucson native isn’t in salon helping build people’s confidence, you can find her at dog beach playing with her beautiful husky Balto.

Hayley Hedrich, a Northern California native, discovered her passion for the beauty industry at an early age. Following in both her grandmother and aunts footsteps it was a no brainer for her to attend a prestigious cosmetology school and launch her career here in San Diego at Belle Sirène Salon.

Hayley set the bar high for herself and spent the first few years assisting some talented, experienced Master Stylists. After years of investing in her education Hayley decided that she was ready to be the one behind the chair! She has a love for creating variations of blonde and a passion for haircutting. Along with being certified in various methods of hair extensions, Hayley has a love for learning new techniques and styles suitable for all clients. You can see the confidence her clients have in her abilities and how much they enjoy their visits to the salon. Hayley prides herself in her ability to listen and connect. She focuses on every detail to create a polished, fresh look for her clients.

Motivated, dedicated, and enthusiastic about hair, Hayley looks forward to helping create your next amazing look!

“Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.”- Kevyn Aucoin

Cara has been the friendly voice behind the phone and the first connection to clients at Belle Siréne since the salon opened it’s doors. As Lead Salon Coordinator, Cara loves connecting with salon guests because each day brings a new story. She works closely with our dream team of hairstylists to achieve their client’s goals while ensuring they receive the best salon experience and service possible.

Cara has been a licensed esthetician and makeup artist in the St. Louis and San Diego area for over 10 years, loving the combination of art and science that is involved in the beauty industry and is always eager to continue to learn more. As one of our salon Make Up Artists, Cara does many weddings and special events make up for our guests and is highly requested. Whether she works in salon or on location, you can trust you will feel so beautiful under Cara’s care!