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How it All Started



Chad 's Hair Store opened in 1990, and was leveraged from a barber shop of 25 years. It was an investment between Chad Fults and a business partner at the time: he had a staff, and the intentions were to keep his day-time job at a fancy salon in Huntington Beach.

Yet sadly, Chad 's business partner committed suicide shortly after the store's opening. In order to keep the business running, Chad had to quit his job in Huntington Beach to keep his investment alive and running. The Hair Store was closed for 2 days and revamped when Chad made his full-time debut: it was changed from a 1950s Mayberry style, to a Garage theme.

Chad put a lot of time and effort in doing unusual promotions to draw attention as well as charitable work to give back to the community. For instance, promotions are initiated every year. One example was placing Pez dispensers in the window (almost 4,000 for 5 days straight) and next year with rubber ducks - people had to pay a dollar to guess the number of items to win free haircuts for the year, with all the proceeds going to the Susan G. Coleman breast cancer foundation.
Channel 9 news and OCN placed coverage on The Hair Store's events, and on December 2000, The Hair Store made the cover of the Business section of the Orange County Register; it was the selected winner of the year's best charitable work in community.

Another example of The Hair Store's generosity is on Veterans Day: the shop is open to provide free haircuts to all veterans, all day long.

The Hair Store sponsored a marathon running team in 2003: the team ran the Los Angeles Marathon, Jimmy Stewart marathon, and the camp Pendleton mud run. The team was headed by Vince Hernandez, Chad , and his friend Brandon. Chad paid for all the t-shirts, entry fees, and participated by running in the marathon. All profits went to the ALS foundation in honor of Isabel Porrello. Isabel was a receptionist at a salon Chad worked at when he was 19 years old, and an old friend who had the disease. Vince was Isabel's son-in-law, who put team together in her honor.

In October 2004, Chad 's Hair Store won "Best of OC" in the OC weekly for the #1 place in OC to get your hair done.

Chad 's Hair Store has been open for 20 years now. The salon and barbering is very important to Chad , but what's more important is him being able to have the time to work on his art, painting and future projects he puts so much into.

Clients are big part of any business and become like family: in 2004, the Hair Store put a new floor in. Two clients came and spent the weekend doing the floor for him! Chad 's clients are loyal and amazingly appreciative of The Hair Store's reputation. Anything Chad collects or decorates the store with has been passed on by clients for free. Without The Hair Store's clients, it would not be at level it's at today.

As Chad's Hair store grows, so does its direction and future. Dooing hair and being with clients' is very important to Chad, yet as he gets older, his passion for art and creativity seems to occupy his thoughts.