IRVING PARK — It took Elma Feriz three buses to get to work Monday — first the Lincoln, then the Western and finally the Irving Park route — but she wasn't about to let a little old blizzard get in the way of her second day on the job at Cutting Edges Beauty Salon.
Scratch that. Second day as co-owner of Cutting Edges.
After a decade as a stylist at Lincoln Square's Shear Elegance, Feriz has struck out on her own with Cutting Edges, 2941 W. Irving Park Road, along with two of her Shear Elegance co-workers, Iskra Nikolaeva Uzejrovic and Zoran Tomic.
So how did day one go? In this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Patty Wetli says every appointment was canceled but the day wasn't a total loss:
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