One fashionista tries out a few tricks on another.

by Mick Kelly . photo by Matt Rose

We decided it was time to make over the makeover guru. Judy Haynes, owner of The Sanctuary in downtown Hendersonville, is always helping us outfit women in terrific clothing for our makeovers. A few weeks back, after she saw one particularly moving transformation, she confessed: “I want a makeover!” Well, we thought it was high time.

But who could dress up the woman who dresses everyone? Four years ago, Haynes, 59, bought The Sanctuary, a high-end boutique that carries mainly clothing by Eileen Fisher. Day in and day out, when she’s not helping her husband Billy run Camp Ton-A-Wandah, an all-girls summer camp, Haynes is busy outfitting clients in simple, sophisticated, flowy garb, often sweaters and wraps in earth tones or blacks and grays. Haynes frequently organizes community fashion events, too, and she’s known around Hendersonville as a snazzy dresser.

Our first thought about who could help deck out the dress-up expert was Constance Ensner, a longtime Asheville fashion maven and boutique owner with a style (and clothing line) all her own. Ensner opened her first Constance boutique on Haywood Road in downtown Asheville in 1987. At that time, it was one of the first shops in town to sell dresses by Diane von Furstenberg, among other mod, big-city designers. Ensner closed two of her Asheville boutiques last year, but she kept up the upscale Constance Consignment shop off Long Shoals Road in Arden.

When we took Haynes to meet Ensner, the goal was to get Haynes to step out of her comfort zone. Instead of her usual solid blacks, grays and blues, Ensner looked around her consignment shop and found a girly, vintage-inspired floral-print dress in gorgeous fall colors by Eva Franco. Paired with funky Frye boots (also from her shop) and nude fishnet hose from Hip Replacements in Asheville, Haynes looked sophisticated as always but much more bohemian. Suzy Love, a Hendersonville-based Estee Lauder makeup artist, gave Haynes a bright lip color and earth-toned eye shadow and blush. Angela Jones at Moxie Salon & Spa talked Haynes into a warmer brownish-blonde hair color and a stacked-in-the-back bob cut. “People have been noticing my haircut as soon as they walk in,” she says.

Judy’s Eva Franco dress and Frye boots from Constance Consignment. www.constanceboutique.com.
Nude fishnet tights from Hip Replacements in Asheville. www.hipreplacementsclothing.com .
Hair by Angela Jones at Moxie Salon & Spa in downtown Hendersonville. www.moxiesalonandspa.com.
Makeup by Suzy Love.