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My career behind the chair began more than fourteen years ago. Like many stylists, I started with a dream, a set of tools, and a willingness to work harder than anyone around me. Early on, I realized that I wasn't just interested in doing hair. I wanted to understand people, transformation, confidence, and the stories that happen inside a salon chair.
Over the years, I became known for color corrections and transformative hair work. The difficult cases became my favorite cases. While many people saw damaged hair, color bands, or years of box color, I saw possibility. Those transformations became the foundation of my career and helped establish my reputation as a specialist.
I founded Straight Out of Cosmo, an educational platform created to help stylists build better businesses, improve their technical skills, and believe that success was available to them too. What started as a single idea became a thriving community of artists looking for support, education, and real conversations about the beauty industry.
From there, I created programs, mentorships, live events, and classes that helped thousands of stylists. Content Chronicles was born from the belief that visibility changes lives. Success Shadowing was created to provide deeper mentorship. Speaking on stages, leading classrooms, and mentoring stylists became just as meaningful as the work I was doing behind the chair.
My career expanded beyond the salon into partnerships with brands I genuinely believed in. Working alongside companies like Paul Mitchell, K18, Malibu C, Bio Ionic, and others allowed me to combine creativity, education, and business in ways I never imagined possible when I first entered cosmetology school.
But success did not come without challenges.
Today, I continue to evolve as an artist, educator, entrepreneur, and mentor. My mission remains the same: to help people become unapologetically themselves.
If there is one lesson my journey has taught me, it is this:
You do not have to fit into the industry's mold to succeed.
You do not have to become someone else to be worthy of opportunities.
The things that make you different often become the very things that change your life.
My story is still being written. There are more classes to teach, more stages to stand on, more countries to visit, more people to impact, and more dreams to chase.
But if the last fourteen years have taught me anything, it is that the most powerful thing you can do is simply show up as yourself, over and over again, until the world finally sees what was there all along.