Beauty shop owner hangs up her shears after 65 years
GUELPH — After 65 years of cutting hair, Lena Sloopka is putting down her scissors and closing the doors to the Nu-Fashion Beauty Shop.
The 82-year-old Guelph native has been cutting hair since 1946, with most of those years spent at her own salon. Sloopka said Saturday (Dec. 31) was the final day she would ever hold the scissors again.
“I’m ready to retire,” she said, glancing around her 1970s style hairdressing shop.
Nearly a dozen beige salon chairs with hair dryers are scattered around the beauty shop — a reminder of a busier time, when women would visit the salon each week to wash and style their hair.
With a ruby-red carpet and textured wallpaper, stepping into the house-turned-hair salon at the corner of Woolwich and Tiffany streets is like stepping back into the 1970s.

She believes hair weaves may cause some of the same damage in older women. She said tightly sewn-in weaves can cause conditions including traction alopecia — gradual hair loss caused by pulling of the hair — and central centrifugal cicatricial







