Our Team

Jen – The Ring Leader

Jen has always loved the classic, sexy and campy pinup ladies, and the 1940’s is by far her favorite era for style, grace and beauty. She loves revitalizing classic styling from this timeless era, hence her landing on Pinup Salon as her business name!

Jen likes to say that, “My time behind the chair is when I’m the LEAST at work!” Being the owner/operator of the business side of Pinup Salon, you can imagine that she wears multiple hats and has lots to do besides actually working with clients and their hair. “Running a business isn’t for the faint of heart, but really, it’s my time with my clients that keeps me going. I love being part of the lives of people from every walk of life, and building long-term relationships with my clients. My time behind the chair really feeds my soul, because I truly grow from each person I meet. I strive to create a home away from home for my clients, where they feel truly cared for, appreciated and safe. It’s an honor to be in service of people who trust and honor you back,” she says.

She has been doing advanced training since the day she left beauty school, and truthfully, Jen just can’t ever stop learning. “I love seeing other artists’ techniques and putting my own twist on them,” she says. Curl cutting, pixie and men’s cuts, lived-in balayage highlights and fashion colors are some of Jen’s favorite services to provide to her clients. Dry haircutting is also one of her favorite techniques, which she first mastered under the guidance of an amazing artist she worked alongside at the start of her career. The customized movement, blending and texture Jen creates using dry detail cutting is what makes her cuts grow out so beautifully, and it’s part of why clients love working with her. Honoring a client’s natural texture, lifestyle and budget are also very important in how Jen approaches hair design. Giving someone the best hair color of their life that they can’t afford to maintain, or a gorgeous haircut that will require 20 minutes of styling time that her client simply doesn’t have, doesn’t make much sense to Jen. Her consultations are extremely thorough and collaborative, and she will always give clients honest and professional advice that honors and meets each client where they are at that particular moment of life.

Jen’s two kiddos are her heart and soul. She and her partner also remodel houses together in their “spare” time, and their son and daughter always keep them laughing and on their toes! Aside from spending time with her family, Jen is “a feisty poker player, fierce feminist and lifelong fighter for equal rights”. Her drug of choice is traveling and experiencing new places and people, and her deepest hope for her business is that every guest who visits Pinup feels immediately that they are welcomed to the family. 

Denika – The Quiet Powerhouse

Denika has been in the industry since 2010, and joined Pinup in 2024. Having gone through a salon ownership change and seeing the diversity of her client services reduced as a result, her original passion for doing hair had started to fade. She felt ready to be in an environment where she could spread her creative wings once again, and Pinup felt like the perfect place to tap into her talents for styling and makeup, as well as her enthusiasm for rainbow hair color. Denika is a very skilled barber, enjoys working with curly hair textures and is our resident perm specialist, but her favorite work is creating flawless updo styling and makeup looks for special events, weddings, date nights and photo shoots. She’s worked very hard to hone her vintage styling skills, and has become quite the master at it!

Denika loves working at Pinup Salon, and feels that it’s a welcoming, intimate place where she can actually take the time to create an experience for clients that feels special and deliberate, not rushed. What makes Denika special is her listening and matching energy. She’s the last person to fill the room with stories about herself, and instead prefers to give her clients a respite from life by meeting them energetically where they are – keeping their time in her chair soothing and relaxed, when it feels like that’s what they need, or turning it up if they seem in a more chatty mood. She can bend your ear about all kinds of late 90’s/early 2000’s music and new trends in hair and makeup, but for clients especially seeking a calm and quiet salon experience, Denika is the perfect choice. She also prides herself on working great with children and neurodivergent clients, who may need more patience and understanding throughout their time in the chair. She is never judgmental, and just has a healing energy all around – we are very lucky to have her!

Born and raised in Burien, Denika’s a true local who focuses much of her private life around her family in the area, including her daughter and grand babies. Her band t-shirt collection is insanely impressive, and you might even catch her out on the town at a show, or playing dress up at a Comic Con. Always down to ride, but also completely unassuming, Denika is the quiet powerhouse we desperately needed on our team!

Lindsey – Extensions and Blonde Specialist

Lindsey started doing hair in 2005 at a chic salon on Capitol Hill. She worked there for four years, and took many classes in advanced color (blondes specifically) and advanced cutting. Meanwhile, she became certified in Keratin bonded extensions and did an apprenticeship with Master Extension Artist, Melissa Reetz. Eventually, she left her post at the salon on Capitol Hill to go to a salon on Mercer Island with Melissa, where she worked for two-and-a-half years. Lindsey finally joined the team at Pinup Salon in the summer of 2011, and we’ve been happy to have her ever since!

Ever since she was small, Lindsey loved playing with hair, cutting her dolls’ and even her own hair, and styling for anyone else who would let her! Going to get her hair done with her mom at a high-end salon in Downtown Seattle was the highlight of her month. She was destined to be a hairdresser.

She and Jen became friends many years ago when they were both attending beauty school, and they stayed in contact. When Jen was expanding the West Seattle Salon and Lindsey was moving to West Seattle, the timing could not have been better! Lindsey wanted a change, and hoped to move to a smaller salon where she could have a small, intimate and private space to do extensions, color, and cuts. Working with friends has been a plus.

Lindsey loves working at Pinup because we have so much fun with our clients and each other. Every day is something new!

She has been a certified extension specialist in Great Lengths hair extensions and Hair Dreams hair extensions for about 10 years. Since she’s a blonde and understands the blonde language that only blondes get, Lindsey has a special expertise in this area. She has also mastered cutting fine, thin hair, and short women’s cuts. Lindsey has been certified in many advanced color training classes and cutting classes throughout the 10-plus years of her career. To keep up with all the new trends in color and cutting techniques, Lindsey is always doing advanced training classes.

In her spare time, she enjoys traveling with her husband, playing with her son, and going to Seahawks and Sounders games. Her other hobbies include rodeos, paddle boarding and BBQs with friends and family in the summers. Lindsey’s perfect night is dinner at great new restaurant with a good cocktail and awesome company. She is an avid animal lover and has two rescue dogs and a rescue cat — one day, she’d love to also have a pigmy goat!