arts & entertainment >> the best of everything A Beautiful, 27-Year Success Russian immigrant's hard work pays off at Maya Skin Care Center. W hen he told his wife that he tology school, worked for Mira needed the space next to his Linder's Spa in the City, and restaurant to open a banquet helped Mike at his Sunrise and room, the late Mike Kuchersky didn't real- Fiddler locations. ize that he might have done her a favor. Maya's first job in America Her Maya Skin Care Center, soon cel- was gotten for her by the ebrating its 27th anniversary, had been Jewish Family Service, and in a 3,500-square-foot space ... and Mike she worked three days a week found her a nearby empty place in the at the Hadassah Thrift Center West Bloomfield Plaza on Orchard Lake ... The other three days were Road, between 14 and 15 Mile Roads, attending cosmetology school West Bloomfield, with only 1,400 square to get her license ... Maya's feet ... And what has since proved to be mom also got her cosmetology enough room for personal skin care in license plus working, too, for what has become one of the most talked- Mira Linder before opening Maya Skin about beauty operations in the area. Center with her daughter. Three rooms for facials and skin care, Maya Skin Care Center in the West four for manicures and pedicures, one wax Bloomfield Plaza has gained wide acclaim room ... and space for more if needed ... for its methods of making women look But the advantage of being small is many more attractive ... Numerous excellent times much more important than a lot of European touches go back centuries and area and poor quality. have always been considered many grades Mike and Maya came to the United above a number of other techniques. States from Russia in 1976, where he was The space that Mike Kuchersky had general manager of one of Moscow's finest found for his wife has turned out to be restaurants ... coordinating the workings one of his finest acts ... With tranquil- for a more than 400-seat establishment. ity, cleanliness, further privacy and total At that time, with professionalism, Maya 0— the Soviet government and her mother have owning businesses, been greatly welcomed Maya's mother and ... Together with a fine present co-partner, highly qualified staff, Anna Platner, could not they have instilled a operate her own beauty family-like atmosphere shop ... Maya worked much to the apprecia- with her mother and tion of their numerous attended college, getting clients. degrees as a librarian Michael and Maya ,t. ,r t . 10 ;;, ( and speech therapist. kp .,+.„, 1, „ ,,,,, Kuchersky and her A short while after 4,- :'1,1)