Our Stylists

Friends "The Salon" is dedicated to providing skillfully trained professionals who provide a beauty experience, which is nurturing as well as pampering. We welcome you to experience our unique, uplifting, and relaxing atmosphere.

Introducing our featured stylists, who specialize in precision cutting, custom coloring, lock maintenance and believable hair weaving to name a few.

Check in with Sherry Justice for her heavenly shampoo. We also have a manicurist on staff to make this one-stop experience.

At Friends, we believe friendship and professionalism go hand in hand. We invite you to stop in for a free consultation.

Sherry A native of the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sherry has been working with the public for most of her years and loves it. Sherry is generally the first person to greet you when you enter Friends and the first to expose you to its superior customer service. She shampoos and conditions the client's hair in preparation for the stylist. Sherry is also embarking on a career as a massage therapist to further develop her skills and to expand the services of Friends the Salon. Sherry has been declared by many to have "heavenly hands," and her shampoos dubbed as "the shampoo experience." Sherry loves and cherishes the amazing experience of making someone look and feel beautiful and looks forward to ushering you into an unforgettable shampoo experience.

Naretta Naretta Banks, known as Scootie to most and a mother of two, was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She grew up in a large family and started doing hair at an early age. By the age of thirteen, she was doing hair around the neighborhood and enjoyed crafting her skills. Naretta received professional training from Empire Beauty School and has been a styling hair for nearly 14 years. She has mastered the art of exotic weaving, braiding, styling, and natural hair. Naretta believes the integrity of the hair is most important and her sole focus is the well-being of each individual client.

Tania Tania Hill, a Baltimore, Maryland native comes to Friends The Salon with over 10 years experience in making people look & feel beautiful. Her career started as a shampoo assistant and she eventually gained the skill set to become a Natural Hair Care Artist and Makeup Artist. Specializing in creative double strand styling, transitional styling (transitioning from relaxer back to natural), weaves, creative loc styling, and much more. She prides herself on staying educated & keeping up to date with the latest trends in the industry. Tania's work has been featured on the runway, in tv/film/print, as well as everyday beauties like yourself. Make Tania apart of your beauty team!

OWNER, MASTER STYLIST

Rhon Friend is a celebrated hair stylist and beauty expert. For over 25 years, he has attracted a following with unparalleled devotion. At Friends the Salon, Rhon and his team offer fresh looks, technique, and advice, receiving accolades from women of all backgrounds and lifestyles.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Rhon Friend, Owner and Master Stylist has over twenty-five years of experience in the industry. After graduating from Jewel's Beauty Academy at the top of his class in 1982, Rhon set out to develop a style uniquely his own and gained prominence in Baltimore and surrounding areas, even garnering an audience with Patti LaBelle for his "knock-off" hair do and super marketing.

Cultivating and continuing education are essential to Rhon’s philosophy as a salon owner. He has created, maintained, and manages an in-house education program. Working closely with his team on a daily basis, he encourages his staff to develop and refine their talents in order to achieve their professional best.

Described by most as a visionary and very passionate about goals – and obtaining them, Rhon has become revered and loved in the industry. Rhon’s success depends on his innate ability to identify with each client and create an exclusive and often trend-setting hair design based on his understanding of their lifestyle, along with his artistic eye for proportion and sensitivity to the particular nature of their hair and body. Yet, his greatest renown is for his tension-releasing shampoo and scalp massage.

Rhon has studied advanced techniques in hair design under the guidance of John Achison, Berry Fletcher, associates of the Paul Mitchell Company and others in the industry. He mastered the art of coloring, precision cutting and hair weaving.

Rhon has completed the prescribed course of study as a Instructor in accordance with the requirements established by the Pennsylvania State Board of Cosmetology and Empire Beauty Schools.

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Theresa Holland is an 18 yr.old young adult,born and raise in York,PA.She was homeschooled for 5 yrs. and graduated June09',in March of 2010 she graduated from Baltimore School of Massage.She really enjoys working with her hands,her mom always said she had healing hands.Going to BSoM Theresa learned alot about how the body works,how everything is connected and she was taught alot of diffrent modalites.Her favorite Modalities are Swedish,Cranal Sacral,and Reflexology,all are not only beneficial and relaxing but it connects the body as a unit.She wants to start out working local and than hopefully go on cruise ships later on down the road.