A pioneer among Dominican businesswomen in the world of beauty, Eugenia Delgado, affectionately known as Luz, was born in Cotuí, Dominican Republic from where she emigrated to Santo Domingo (National District) when she was barely two years old.  

Eugenia demonstrates her great aptitude for business at the young age of 16, at which time she enters the world by working as a server in a pizzeria and from where she saves her salary to buy and resell livestock. Finding herself responsible for raising two children and needing access to advanced social services to support her son with hearing needs, Eugenia emigrated to New York City in 1985. There, after a brief job as a hairdresser at a local salon, she decided to accept an opportunity to open her own business - a salon with two chairs and three hair dryers - where she planted the seed of what is today Fantasy Hair & Spa, one of the most popular and reputable Dominican salons in New York.  

Known as the touchstone from which quality is measured, Fantasy Hair & Spa is the headquarters from which an open, respectful and multicultural practice is first idealized, developed, and implemented.  Fantasy Hair & Spa was precisely the first Dominican salon where the Afro-centric hair style of the so-called “locks” was started and maintained; It was also from this Spa space where a group of Afro-Latina community leaders first met to enjoy the services and elucidate issues that were pressing for the Dominican community as a whole, and the training and support for Dominican beauty entrepreneurs in particular. .  It is precisely in the space of Fantasy Hair & Spa where the concern to support, nourish, and promote a collective agenda for Dominican businesswomen in the world of beauty first arises.  

From its formation to the present, Fantasy Hair & Spa serves clients who have patronized its services for generations – grandmothers, mothers, daughters and granddaughters still come to have their hair taken care of since the doors opened.  

Today, Eugenia adds her leadership to the renewed effort to advance a collective and international agenda of Dominican women who work in the honorable service of beauty throughout the world. In her role as President Emeritus of the International Alliance of Dominican Hairdressers, Inc., Eugenia adds her more than 37 years of business experience to define, institutionalize and advance an incomparable vision of training and improvement.