Nevaeh Salon, Grandview

After more than a dozen years in the beauty industry, Alexis Roades has risen to lead the stylist teams at both locations of Neveah Aveda Concept Salon. It's her job to instill the salon's belief in eco-conscious beauty, a belief whose principles they uphold by using Aveda's naturally derived color and styling products. In addition to cutting and coloring hair, stylists manipulate texture with perms and relaxers and nourish follicles with botanical scalp treatments. Several stylists also perform makeup applications, a skill that bolstered the team when they appeared at Kansas City Fashion Week.