Our Vision
To Create an Environment that Nurtures
and Supports Every Person
in a Meaningful and Accepting Way.
and Supports Every Person
in a Meaningful and Accepting Way.
Our Values
At Asheville Hair Design,
We Believe our Love for Originality will lead
to the Happiness and Loyalty of our clients,
furthering their Trust
in our Dependability and Integrity.
We Believe our Love for Originality will lead
to the Happiness and Loyalty of our clients,
furthering their Trust
in our Dependability and Integrity.
Meet Our team!
Tricia Zinke
Owner/ Lead Stylist
Tricia started her journey into hair in 1999, right after she got home from a year of travelling and playing the trombone with Up With People, which is a multi-cultural performing arts leadership program. While traveling, the cast members had very little money, and had no time to find someone to cut their hair, so Tricia offered her services and realized she had a knack for it. Thinking this could be a long-term option for her, she attended Haywood Community College. Tricia graduated and got her license in 2001 and started her career with the dreams of continuing to help people like she did when she was traveling.
Tricia married her love, Paul, in 2002 and they welcomed Adrian in 2004, Logan in 2009, and then Eric in 2015 thus completing their family! In 2005, Tricia branched out on her own and started working for herself and she absolutely loved it!
Always a lover of music, Tricia joined the Asheville Lyric Opera as a professional Chorus member in 2006. During the production of Madame Butterfly, Tricia jumped in to help with some of the wig duties because the make-up artists were swamped. The following season, she was offered a position as the Hair Designer and, of course, she said yes! In the fall of 2009, she was promoted to the Hair and Make-up Designer and was an integral part in the creative process for each production until 2015, when she decided to step away to focus on her business.
Speaking of business! Never one to sit still, Tricia decided she needed to learn more about the business side of things and took a class at Mountain Biz Works in June of 2010. It turned into an 8 week business plan course and about halfway through, she realized she was confident she could open a salon. Almost a year to the day, Asheville Hair Design was open!
Tricia is currently focusing on growing the business and training and supporting her staff to reach for their professional goals. All of her stylists are in tune to Tricia’s philosophy of Team-Based Service to care and empower our guests. She has continued to take business classes to focus on her leadership skills and has been to New York City and Washington D.C. for intensive training on the philosophy of curly hair care. She has been a member of Curly Hair Artistry since 2014.
Tricia’s passion for hair is equally matched with her need to care for and encourage a positive learning environment not only for her stylists, but for the guests we empower. Our goal is to bring the beauty from the inside out. We endeavor to educate our guests so they have the power to recreate at home, what we do for them at the salon.
Welcome to our family!
Tricia married her love, Paul, in 2002 and they welcomed Adrian in 2004, Logan in 2009, and then Eric in 2015 thus completing their family! In 2005, Tricia branched out on her own and started working for herself and she absolutely loved it!
Always a lover of music, Tricia joined the Asheville Lyric Opera as a professional Chorus member in 2006. During the production of Madame Butterfly, Tricia jumped in to help with some of the wig duties because the make-up artists were swamped. The following season, she was offered a position as the Hair Designer and, of course, she said yes! In the fall of 2009, she was promoted to the Hair and Make-up Designer and was an integral part in the creative process for each production until 2015, when she decided to step away to focus on her business.
Speaking of business! Never one to sit still, Tricia decided she needed to learn more about the business side of things and took a class at Mountain Biz Works in June of 2010. It turned into an 8 week business plan course and about halfway through, she realized she was confident she could open a salon. Almost a year to the day, Asheville Hair Design was open!
Tricia is currently focusing on growing the business and training and supporting her staff to reach for their professional goals. All of her stylists are in tune to Tricia’s philosophy of Team-Based Service to care and empower our guests. She has continued to take business classes to focus on her leadership skills and has been to New York City and Washington D.C. for intensive training on the philosophy of curly hair care. She has been a member of Curly Hair Artistry since 2014.
Tricia’s passion for hair is equally matched with her need to care for and encourage a positive learning environment not only for her stylists, but for the guests we empower. Our goal is to bring the beauty from the inside out. We endeavor to educate our guests so they have the power to recreate at home, what we do for them at the salon.
Welcome to our family!
Alisha Rhom
Stylist
Alisha has always been the ball of energy, caring one ever since she was a child. Making others laugh and being with loved ones has always been something she enjoys. Just like her childhood nickname, “ChooChoo”, her mind ran off so many tracks. Her ADD made school difficult at times, but thankfully she had a family that never gave up on her. With repetition and hard work, she was able to make it through school with mostly As and Bs, occasionally Cs from blasphemous math.
From a very young age, she’s always loved creative writing, music, and daydreaming. She was later able to put that to use when she started theatre in 2017, either playing in the ensemble or stage writing. SFX and dramatic stage makeup became an invested hobby. There were even times she would post her stories for the world to see.
After graduating from high school, Alisha wasn’t quite sure on where to go, and she felt expectations rise on her. College wasn’t an option and she wasn’t confident to rely on her artistic hobbies to carry her in life. So, she went on to Appalachian University in hopes to find her dreams, or at least make one.
Gaining friendships and the mountains was an amazing time of her life, but she was there to make her family proud. She studied her hardest in Nutrition one semester and Elementary Education the next. Though, no matter how hard she tried, the passion was never there. Alisha wanted to help people on a personal level but didn’t think she was in the right direction. In an FDN class, she realized she wasn’t putting away “artistic hobbies”, she was setting aside a piece of herself. A piece of herself that was valid as much as math and science. Not only that, but a piece of herself that has the power to bring people together. Her two best friends, Paul and Leah, are examples of such different people being brought together through their love for art.
Deciding to go into Cosmetology was not only freeing but also challenging. To be in a career that never stops building was intimidating at first, but quickly became exciting! That even in something like hair, people’s love for themselves can grow. When Alisha graduated in May of 2021, she made a foundation that life wasn’t going to deter her from investing in this career. She seeks the smile in people’s eyes, the little things that make someone’s day, and to persevere for others- just like when she was little. Being a hairstylist didn’t just grow her love and care for others but also a love for herself.
Alisha, who is now a mother of a cockatiel and a rescue ball python, is so thankful to be at Asheville Hair Design. Being taught by Tricia and in a team-work environment made Alisha feel at ease from other salons. Without having to worry about product-selling or booth-renting, she’s able to fully focus on her client’s concerns and gaining knowledge. Not only that, but hopes to train in media designing, photography, and teaching.
From a very young age, she’s always loved creative writing, music, and daydreaming. She was later able to put that to use when she started theatre in 2017, either playing in the ensemble or stage writing. SFX and dramatic stage makeup became an invested hobby. There were even times she would post her stories for the world to see.
After graduating from high school, Alisha wasn’t quite sure on where to go, and she felt expectations rise on her. College wasn’t an option and she wasn’t confident to rely on her artistic hobbies to carry her in life. So, she went on to Appalachian University in hopes to find her dreams, or at least make one.
Gaining friendships and the mountains was an amazing time of her life, but she was there to make her family proud. She studied her hardest in Nutrition one semester and Elementary Education the next. Though, no matter how hard she tried, the passion was never there. Alisha wanted to help people on a personal level but didn’t think she was in the right direction. In an FDN class, she realized she wasn’t putting away “artistic hobbies”, she was setting aside a piece of herself. A piece of herself that was valid as much as math and science. Not only that, but a piece of herself that has the power to bring people together. Her two best friends, Paul and Leah, are examples of such different people being brought together through their love for art.
Deciding to go into Cosmetology was not only freeing but also challenging. To be in a career that never stops building was intimidating at first, but quickly became exciting! That even in something like hair, people’s love for themselves can grow. When Alisha graduated in May of 2021, she made a foundation that life wasn’t going to deter her from investing in this career. She seeks the smile in people’s eyes, the little things that make someone’s day, and to persevere for others- just like when she was little. Being a hairstylist didn’t just grow her love and care for others but also a love for herself.
Alisha, who is now a mother of a cockatiel and a rescue ball python, is so thankful to be at Asheville Hair Design. Being taught by Tricia and in a team-work environment made Alisha feel at ease from other salons. Without having to worry about product-selling or booth-renting, she’s able to fully focus on her client’s concerns and gaining knowledge. Not only that, but hopes to train in media designing, photography, and teaching.
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