image description — Deidre Rosado gets some help cutting the ribbon on her new brow studio last week on North Street.

Precision Brows Opens on North Street in Pittsfield

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
12:26PM / Tuesday, March 25, 2025Print Story | Email Story

Deidre Rosado offers mcroblading and threading of brows and hopes to soon include lip blush and more services.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Deidre Rosado is ready to give your brows the perfect sculpted look.

The permanent-makeup artist opened Precision Brows at 644 North St. with a grand opening on Wednesday

The studio offers threading and microblading, which is described as a semi-permanent solution to define eyebrows.

"Microblading is basically a form of tattooing that is done differently than actual tattooing. We use a pen with a flex blade and a pigment versus ink that will eventually change color overtime," said Rosado.

She explained that she picks the color based off someone's natural hair color and shapes the eyebrows based on bone structure.

"I've always been into stuff like this and microblading was really interesting to me, so I just kind of did it. It's been a lot of hard work," Rosado said.

Threading is the use of twisted cotton thread to pluck out hair from the root and can be used alone or with other brow treatments like microblading.

Rosado trained 100 hours with Sarah Delaney at Zero To Microblading, a training program that also covers business operations, and a 200-hour apprenticeship with April Jordan, owner of Rock'n Ink, before opening her studio.

"She's meant to be one of the business leaders for our area, she did an amazing job very she was very particular and adamant but always question if she didn't know she wanted to know so she was so focused and stayed on top of everything she was so focused and her having her own business is something that is meant for her," Jordan said. "I’m proud of her, super proud of what she accomplished."

Jordan says it is nice to see a new place like this in Pittsfield for people to come and enjoy.

"I just want to see her thrive, I just want to see Pittsfield come up and people be able to do these cares and maintenance to themselves and you know it's a lot of things that we lose sight of just taking care of who we are but having a professional business like this gives woman or man the opportunity to clean their look up and feel nice," she said.

Mayor Peter Marchetti also stopped by to welcome her to the neighborhood and listen to what she does. He helped with cutting a red ribbon to open the studio.

Rosada says she will soon be offering lip blush services, and hopes to add more services soon.

Precision Brows is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays 10 to 7 and Sundays 10 to 6. Appointments can be made by calling 413-553-1059.

Tags: new business, personal services, ribbon cutting,

If you would like to contribute information on this article, contact us at info@iberkshires.com.

WWII Veteran Reflects on D-Day at VFW Post Induction

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
12:25PM / Saturday, June 06, 2026

The members in the picture are Bret Miller, Coast Guard, Desert Storm; Hank Morris, Army, Vietnam; Brad Havill, Navy, Global War on Terror; VFW Post 448 Vice Cmdr. Mark Pompi, Army, Global War on Terrorism, Afghanistan; Post Cmdr. Arnold Perras, Korea; Joe Difillipo, Army, Vietnam; Teri Billington, Navy, Desert Storm; and Carmen Ostrander, Air Force, Afghanistan.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Anthony Salatino Jr. says his memory is getting a little foggy about his time in the Army.

But he remembers how terrible D-Day was, and feeling lucky he wasn't among those in the initial invasion force 82 years ago.

"One of the most horrible things was in Normandy. We went shortly after D-Day. I got lucky, very lucky on D-Day. We went to a staging area the night before … and at the very end, somebody called, I was in headquarters, they called all the headquarters personnel at the center," the 103-year-old said. "We did not go. There's about 30 of us. The rest of the battalion was gone, and the reason for that was because there was another battalion coming from the States, and they had no headquarters.

"We stayed back, but we did go to Normandy shortly after that, and when we went to Normandy, it was all over."

Salatino was attending an induction ceremony on Thursday at the Lt. John N. Truden VFW Post 448. Joseph Texidor, who served in the Army for 17 years with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sworn in as the post's newest member.

Salatino served in the Medical Corps and wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, a World War I veteran wounded at Verdun. Salatino was in the Army for about three years.

"The whole memory is what I just told you, very, very alive to me," he said. "That is, I can never forget, never forget that."

D-Day on June 6, 1944, was the start of Operation Overlord, and the largest invading force to cross the English Channel since 1066. Their goal: to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

View Full Story