After more than three decades on FM 1960, Leif’s Hair Studio will move to a new site at 20710 Kuykendahl Road, Ste. E, this summer.

Leif Christiansen opened the salon in 1973 at Greenwood Square, across from its current location.

“It’s time to move,” Christiansen said. “The demographics are moving north and it’s all gravitating toward ExxonMobil and The Woodlands. That intersection looked attractive to us.”

The move will take place in late July or early August, Christiansen said.

“Our claim to fame is our training program,” Christiansen said. “I’m the product of an apprenticeship program I went through in the 1960s before I came to this country, and that’s how we do it.”

The six-month apprenticeship program at the salon includes three months of learning through assisting other stylists, and an additional three months of hands-on training for apprentices with their own clients.

The training is designed to teach all of the salon’s stylists the same cutting and coloring techniques, Christiansen said.

The salon will offer the same services at its new location, including cutting, coloring, straightening treatments and waxing.

Leif’s Salon has seven people on staff and will be looking to take on a new apprentice after its move this summer, Christiansen said.

Christiansen came to the U.S. from Denmark in 1970.

“I worked for a lady named La’vonne and she’s my American mother, she is my muse; she is 99 years old now,” Christiansen said. “I started with $20 and a suitcase—it’s the American dream.”