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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Irina “Pina” Pinkusevich realized her passion as a Pet Stylist while working part-time as a bather after immigrating from The Ukraine in 1989. In the earlier part of her career she worked as a Pet Stylist at some of the most high-end grooming salons in New York. Pina entered the world of Competitive Grooming in 2006 and went on to win countless awards including Best In Show, Best All Around Groomer, the Lynne Carver Award for the most Best All Around Groomer wins (twice), and the Liz Paul Memorial Award for the most Best in Show wins. Other notable wins were the Winner’s Circle Jackpot 2011 and The World Dog Show’s World Champion Award. Pina was also a member of GroomTeam USA from 2008 through 2013 and competed in the World Championships for the United States in 2009, 2011, and 2013 helping the U.S. team bring home a Silver & two Golds.
Along with being a world-renowned groomer, Pina is also a national & international judge, instructor, and speaker. She was awarded the Cardinal Crystal Award for Judge of the Year as well as the Barkleigh Honors Award for Up & Coming Speaker of the Year in 2014. Pina is a National Certified Master Groomer (NCMG) with the National Dog Groomers of America and is also a Certifier for their company. In 2021, she launched her company Niira to bring high quality affordable grooming tools to the industry.
Dedicated to improving the industry, Pina offers dog grooming education through private lessons in and around Ft. Lauderdale, FL and also travels the world to instruct at various in-person conferences and seminars as well as online webinars and is an integral part of Artero’s Jornadas events.
Pina is also associated with Kiyara Poodles, a top breeder of miniature poodles in the United States owned by Michael Lamb & Bill Jividen Jr. She is also associated with Kerryfield Kennels, top breeders of Kerry Blue Terriers owned by Virginia Harding and Krizma Kennels owned by Lois Grier. With these kennels, Irina has bred & co-owned numerous champion Poodles & Kerry Blue Terriers.
Sharon Jenkins –
The name is fitting with this teacher, Pina was clear, straight to the point and very informative…yet another great groomer who knows exactly what we want to know…thank you.
Lindsee Lee –
Amazing and extremely valuable tips and tricks from a world renowned professional. A Grooming Queen, if you will. I started using several of her tips the very next day, they were so easy to implement and so effective I was able to add an extra dog to my daily schedule. Thank you to Pina, Nina, and Tone for this webinar!
Kathy Awalt –
I so enjoyed this webinar and have been putting her tips to work asap. Very inspiring.
Alishia Batten –
Irina is amazing. The quality of the live video that groomhaus does is unmatched from any other webinars I’ve watched. And that’s important to me because when you’re learning scissor work you need to be able to see detail. Overall amazing easy to follow and helped me so much with my timing in the salon.
Brooke –
I love The Groomhaus webinars. The quality is so good, it’s as if I were watching it live. I literally popped a bag of popcorn and watched this on Friday night. ????
With most educational videos I’m just sitting there squinting trying to see what is going on and end up feeling like I wasted my money. Not with The Groomhaus!
Amy Ganos –
Great webinar and lots of valuable information. Pina is the best ????
Rebecca England –
Video was good, clear and bright. It must have started 30 minutes before advertised because I went on in time and it was half over. I was disappointed in that. So I don’t know if or what she explained about speeding grooming up. I just saw her scissoring the legs.
Mirian Soldineer –
As always, I enjoy any advice and watching Pina work. I always walk away learning something new. Thank you guys are great as well.
Kaoru Nakajima –
It was amazing ????
Cheryl –
Fantastic – easy to follow.
Explained well. Video was good.
Really nice door prizes too. Thank you sponsors !!!