[5][7][8] Soare spoke very little English in 1989 when she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as an aesthetician at a beauty salon and soon realized that eyebrows were an under-explored area.

[2][9] As her manager did not think there was enough of a market, she rented a room in a Beverly Hills salon, providing facials, body waxing, and eyebrow sculpting.

[2] As a beautician, she has stated that her first two clients for an eyebrow treatment were Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.

[2] She is the CEO and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills beauty brand, available in almost 2,000 stores internationally.

[7] In 1986, while his ship was docked in Italy, Victor Soare visited the American embassy and asked for asylum.