Background
Ole Henriksen was born and raised in a small town of Nibe, Denmark.
Ole Henriksen was born and raised in a small town of Nibe, Denmark.
After an impoverished upbringing, Henriksen travelled to Indonesia, during which time his skin became inflamed with cystic acne. He was treated by an aesthetician named Lagita, at a clinic in Jakarta. The successful treatment, performed with various botanicals, piqued Henriksen’s interest in skin care.
Henriksen moved to London to pursue degrees in skin care and cosmetic chemistry, before moving to the United States.
His spa business, based on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has been running for three decades. The spa has been the preferred skin care clinic for countless of Hollywood celebrities, recording artists and other high profiled customers for years.
Henriksen sold his Sunset spa business to employee Vance Soto in 2013. The Ole Henriksen skin care product business operates from Van Nuys.
Henriksen serves as the company"s Creative Director after he sold the product line to Moët Hennessy — Louis Vuitton in February 2011 for an undisclosed amount.
Henriksen gained a renewed attention with his show Ole Henriksens Hollywood on Danish TV2 in 2007, where he invited six well-known Danish men to his clinic in Hollywood for a complete treatment. Henriksen uses his kitchen to experiment with all kinds of raw materials.
In 2014, Henriksen appeared in a Danish documentary Jeg village være Ole Henriksen (I want to become Ole Henriksen) created and hosted by Danish journalist Ole Juncker in which Juncker follows Henriksen in his daily routines for weeks with the intent of adapting Henriksen"s famous, positive mindset and cheerful personality.