Christina Visa

A Basel hairdresser since 2008 who retrained in makeup

A salon hairdresser who went back to school for makeup: that is the story of Christina Visa. The salon's hairdresser, Christine Häberli (Christina Visa is the salon's brand name), finished her apprenticeship as a hairstylist for women and men in 2008 and has worked as a hairdresser in Basel ever since. Something still felt incomplete, so she took further training as a makeup artist at the ProAcademy in Berlin. 2023 and 2024 were two very intensive years of learning, in which the salon built up its wedding styling among other further training. Her graduation shoot at ProAcademy had a colored-eyeliner theme, with the model Paula and the photographer Nadine Schönfeld. Everything below was read in November 2026.

For a bride, a hairdresser who also trained in makeup is a real strength, and we rate the salon on Rosentalstrasse highly for a Basel wedding. The range runs from a classic cut for women and men up to comprehensive styling for an event or for your wedding day, with advice on bringing out your features in a few brushstrokes. Hair is the foundation of that styling, and she has worked on it in a Basel salon since 2008.

Bridal hair and makeup courses she has taken

Two entries in her list of further training speak to weddings directly. In 2023 she took the BHP Bridal Hair Pro course with Julia Fratichelli, covering various techniques of bridal styling. In 2024 she attended makeup courses with Ina Heinrich and Valeria Hamerlain at the Glossarium makeup and hair school in Basel. Beside those come the Keune Academy trend color and cut course of 2023 and 2024 with Alicia Riley, covering styling, balayage, paintings, babylights, slice and lived-in color. She has been drawn to the beauty trade since childhood and follows new trends through further training and fashion magazines.

Her tools are named, too. She works exclusively with makeup from MAC and INGLOT, hair care and styling products from Keune, and facial care from Amway Artistry. A Keune shop and an Amway shop are linked for those who want to buy what the salon uses, so you can take the same care routine home.

A second stylist with a long hair background

A colleague, Nathalie Prodon, has been in the team for 3 years and finished her apprenticeship as a women's and men's hairdresser in 1997. Her continuing training covers cutting and color techniques from London and California and the Keune Academy in Basel. She is also a gel nail designer, works with keratin-bond extensions and offers a Mandara head and neck massage. Since 2024 she has been a makeup artist as well, and her natural hair styling and makeup look was photographed by Raphael Hohler. For a wedding party this means two people who can work on hair and makeup in the same salon, though how many people can be booked at once is not stated.

Wedding packages as a PDF, booked from Rosentalstrasse

The salon is at Rosentalstrasse 24, 4058 Basel. A Termin buchen button opens a request form asking for your email address, phone number and preferred date. Three downloadable PDFs cover prices: a price list, a hands-and-feet list and a Hochzeitspakete (wedding packages) list. The amounts are inside those PDFs, so open the wedding packages list before you ask for a quote. The hands-and-feet list is there too, which suits a bride who wants her hands and feet looked after by the same salon.

The site is in German only, which matters for couples planning from abroad; a short note with your date, the number of people to style and the language you need is a sensible start.

Retraining routes among Swiss bridal artists

Other makeup artists took different paths. Leonie Dorigo trained as an International Make-up Artist at Glossarium Academy Basel from 2019 and added a hairstylist diploma there in 2022, so her route runs from makeup to hair. Christina Visa's runs the other way, from the salon chair to makeup. Anita Steiner took a "Masterclass Bridal" at Bobbi Brown in Zurich in 2023 and a bridal course at Make-up Forever Academy in Paris in 2024, and the owner of Haar Bude took a personal bridal-styling workshop in 2024. The Basel salon's bridal courses date from the same two years, which means its current wedding methods are recent ones.