I’ve been blessed with the ability to create something in shape, color and texture, that touches someone’s life. The ability to give someone a new outlook on themselves — AND their life — (in about 2 hours!) is the biggest rush I can imagine.
After receiving a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois Champaign, my mom suggested I look into cosmetology school because she had known I cut my friends hair and really enjoyed it — and was pretty good at it! Often these home haircuts actually helped pay for groceries!
I started my career after cosmetology school by training as a hair cutter at Maxines salon in Chicago where I held their Creative Director management position during my last four years. Training after beauty school was a hard pill to swallow, (shampooing, sweeping) but it was worth it and I knew it was the only way to get to the "next level" in my career. I was a "cutter" working in that departmentalized salon for 8 years, which taught me the great communicate skills I still use with my clients to this day.
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