Zapien’s wins colorful nationwide contest

  • Sporting a custom-made t-shirt in honor of Zapien’s Salon founder Norman Zapien (5th from left), Carlos Rojas is surrounded by Zapien’s colorists and stylists after giving a personal demonstration June 23, of Schwarzkopf Professional’s hair coloring system. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    Sporting a custom-made t-shirt in honor of Zapien’s Salon founder Norman Zapien (5th from left), Carlos Rojas is surrounded by Zapien’s colorists and stylists after giving a personal demonstration June 23, of Schwarzkopf Professional’s hair coloring system. IAN TOCHER/Staff

    Norman Zapien freely admits he’d forgotten that hair stylist Renata Falanga had entered his business into a nationwide contest.

    But when an email arrived saying his Greensboro-based Zapien’s Salon had prevailed over nearly 20,000 entries, he was stunned – and just a little bit skeptical.

    “I thought it was a hoax,” he says. “I really didn’t believe it at first. Even after everyone convinced me it was…