The beauty that’s in the eye of the beholder can still use a little help from those who do the combing, cutting, highlighting and blow-drying. Ines Pabon was among the dozens of New York City stylists photographed by Brian Finke for the magazine; she moved to New York from Puerto Rico when she was 17 and works at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a geriatric center. “You get older, some people lose hair, they need somebody to fix it so they feel good,” she says. “This is what I do for them.” Rosa María Pacheco, who works at Frida’s Beauty Salon in Astoria, says she works as a hairstylist for one reason: to help people look good. “I used to be a secretary in Mexico City,” she says, “but I started this because of the passion that I have for beauty.”
Julie Bosman