Where it Started How does a hippie child, not caring about hair, never liked getting my hair cut and certainly never touching another person’s hair become a hairstylist? In my early twenties, I was a full-time bill collector in corporate America but desperately wanted to be self-employed. In 1991 I became a massage therapist in hopes of achieving that dream. After years of doing massage part time and being stuck in my corporate job, I began to do chair massage in hair salons. Very quickly I came to realize I liked the fun, high energy environment of salons and how stylists could be independent contractors and were doing well for themselves. I thought, “maybe there was something to this and perhaps I could finally achieve my dream.” In 1994, I finally got to a point where I could quit my corporate job and go to cosmetology school. I worked 3 part time jobs and successfully completed hair school and shortly there after took my state board exam and became licensed hair dresser in a prominent hair salon in Uptown Dallas. I knew I had arrived, while scared to death from a lack of experience, I gained a love for the art of doing hair very quickly. I felt blessed and lucky to have landed a job as an assistant in such an amazing salon with some of the best hairstylists in Dallas! After my tenure as an assistant and then a hairstylist, I gained the skill and confidence to venture out on my own as an independent contractor. I continued my education, taking intensive classes with Vidal Sassoon Academies from Los Angeles to Miami to London, gaining the greatest skills and education I could achieve. After much training and experience, working in salons and doing projects such as fashion shows and photo shoots, I found a love for doing hair in film and television. Working on independent films, music videos and television. I got an opportunity to work on the set of “Walker, Texas Ranger”. After a number of years exploring a career in film and television, I realized my greatest love was building a business and relationships with my clients in a salon. There I could get to know the people that I had the pleasure of making beautiful on a day to day basis. To this day, my love for getting to know and have a relationship with people remains my greatest passion. I now have a clientele that includes some of my original patrons from 24 years ago and now their children and extended family. After all these years, I am still proud to say I love what I do and could not imagine doing anything else! My passion remains making people beautiful day after day. Learning and growing in my field as I go. I’m also committed to giving back to my community, I do volunteer work with cancer patients as well as other charity work. It is the greatest gift to give back to others when I have been given so much in my career. Now I can happily say, this self-proclaimed “Hippie Child” has a great passion for my career as a hairstylist!