Yunis Pivovitsch of Fresh Meadows is one busy woman. As a speech pathologist with a specialty in voice and feeding disorders, she can make her own hours, but in her free time, she often visits her elderly mother, Lillian, in a nursing home.
“If I need to feed her at lunchtime, I can go and feed her and have a client at lunch time,” Pivovitsch said.
Pivovitsch also has two children, Senja and Jason, and four grandkids.
It was the packed days that made Pivovitsch, a baby boomer, write into The Queens Courier/Makeover Contest to receive a half-day of beauty at Christie & Co. Salon
“I just went for it,” Pivovitsch said. “I just wrote on a little card. It wasn’t even fancy like I would usually do.”
In the end, Pivovitsch was picked as one of the contest winners.
“It was the first time in my life that I ever won anything. I feel like playing Lotto,” she said on Wednesday, February 21, just minutes before her transformation began.
At Christie & Co. Salon
“The color is magnificent,” Pivovitsch raved after several hours of pampering in the Bayside salon. “I really loved everything, the service and how they treated me.”
The makeover left Pivovitsch feeling energized to go back to work at full speed and in turn get more back from her profession.
“When I can help someone and see success in what I’m endeavoring to do — when I can see a child turn around because of my input - I know I’ve made a difference.”
