About Kelsy
“Kelsy is truly an artist and what she provides is far more than a haircut.”
Kelsy Osterman is a visionary hair stylist with over two decades of experience, blending artistry, movement, and personal connection in every haircut. A Minnesota native, Kelsy spent 15 transformative years in New York City, where she honed her craft working with celebrities, editorial teams, TV productions, and Fashion Week. In 2020, she returned to Minneapolis, bringing with her a refined eye for detail and a deep understanding of all hair types from around the world.
Kelsy’s passion lies in connecting you to your hair in a way that feels harmonious and inspiring, sculpting lived-in cuts that honor your natural texture, lifestyle, and well-being. Her ethos celebrates the art of movement and the power of hair to elevate your everyday experience—empowering you to embrace your true self with vitality and confidence.
Hair- stays the same
Movement- Movement is my language, a quiet current of freedom that moves through everything and guides my hands. I’m drawn to the way hair, trees, bodies, and emotions sway and shift, each carrying their own rhythm, each asking to be seen and honored. My work is an invitation to move with it all, to soften into your hair and let it live with you in ease.
Wellbeing- Wellbeing is a quiet returning, a soft harmony we learn to cultivate within ourselves and with the world around us. I’m devoted to exploring it through my own life and sharing what I gather with you, trusting that with the right support, we all have the capacity to feel well. It weaves through everything—how we nourish, move, care for our hair, and connect—and lives within every haircut I offer.
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Each person has their own unique texture, a natural shape that is theirs alone. Individual texture is part of a greater weight exchange that, when in a state of harmony, moves. It becomes something that grows with you. My approach to technique is deeply intertwined with a question I ask myself at the start of each new session:
”How do you LIVE in your hair?”
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Nature and human nature are one, unified essence.
Hair is continually influenced by the natural elements. Wind, water, heat—the way our hair, and by extension we as humans, interact with our environment fascinates me.
Desert grass moving in the California wind. Hair that stands static for a few long seconds amid the gust of a subway. These moments have changed the way that I cut hair.
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Hair is an artistic expression. It is livable art, and it lives in different mediums for me. My work as a photographer coincided with solo-retreats, stretches of time and travel that allowed me to nurture my specialties and tap into the peace I feel when working with hair. Though I always sensed my technique was different, I often struggled with articulating the “how” and “why.” Photographing hair became a way of understanding what comes through my hands.
It has since become a way of assisting others in their own growth, too. A way to observe that which is emerging, and to hold that which exists in the present. A journal of change.