Romanian-American billionaire businesswoman, known as the “Eyebrow Queen”, she lives in Los Angeles, California, and is CEO and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills. As of January 2019, Anastasia Beverly Hills had the most popular Instagram page in the beauty industry, with 20.6 million followers. As of 3 December 2020, Soare was listed as Romania’s 4th richest on Forbes.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1989. As she spoke very little English, Soare worked as an aesthetician at a beauty salon and soon realized that eyebrows were an under-explored area. “I developed a technique for how to shape eyebrows according to people’s bone structure and natural eyebrow shape”. As her manager did not think there was enough of a market, she rented a room in a Beverly Hills salon, providing facials, body waxing, and eyebrow sculpting. By 1997, she was running her own salon on Beverly Hills’ Bedford Drive. As a beautician, she has stated that her first two clients for an eyebrow treatment were supermodels Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. Her other celebrity clients have included Faye Dunaway and Jennifer Lopez.
In 1978, she had married Victor Soare, a ship’s captain. They had one daughter together, Claudia Norvina Soare, and divorced in 1994. Her daughter is also active in the business.
In 1986, while his ship was docked in Italy, her husband Victor visited the American embassy and asked for asylum. He reached the United States six months later. However, Soare and her daughter were not allowed to leave Romania to join him in the United States until 1989.
Anastasia Soare is the godmother of Romanian-American screen actor Sebastian Stan.
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