Hermosa Beach hair stylists mix love, business at their heart-covered salon
by Elka Worner and Blake Burrell When Hollywood hairstylist Brandon Martinez left behind the glitz and glamor of the red carpet for the laid-back beach lifestyle of Hermosa Beach, he wasn’t expecting to fall in love and open a salon. “I came down here just looking for a change because you can do hair anywhere,” Martinez said. The stylist’s clientele had included media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his ex-wives Wendi Murdoch and Jerry Hall; as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and Google founder Sergey Brin. He also styled “all these legit billionaires,” he said, among them Sears CEO Eddie Lampert, the Ziff brothers heirs, Hollywood mogul David Geffen, and CBS, and Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone. Martinez also starred on the Bravo reality series “Blow Out,” where he was known as the bad boy stylist, and eventually kicked off the show. He moved to Hermosa Beach in December 2022 and started working at Crush Salon in downtown Hermosa, where hairstylist Kelly Franiak was also cutting and coloring hair. His tattooed arms, cool outfits and bleached surfer hair caught her attention. She was also impressed with his entrepreneurial drive. Martinez had launched his own line of…
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