In order to receive a cosmetology license, a candidate must meet specific requirements and conditions set by their states’ Board of Cosmetology, who is led by the states Secretary of State. Every state is different, with different licensing requirements and conditions,...

Welcome to the information age…where everything is literally available at your fingertips with a click of a few keys on your laptop. With todays wealth of information made available to professional and consumer alike, not only are the current trends being researched an...

The one question I get more than any other from friends and family when they find out I’ve started a blog is…. why?? I suppose there is a certain amount of narcissism in putting something like this out there…obviously I think I have something someone else may find help...

Editor’s Note: I wrote this blog the day after my Poppa passed away, and I just couldn’t bring myself to post it. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions, but in the end, I decided to post as is….after minimal editing. The emotions are part of the journey, and can’t rea...

12 October 2017

There are two ways to lighten your hair in the hair salon: with permanent haircolor or with a lightener product (don’t call it bleach…that’s for your clothes!). For the purposes of this blog, we will only be talking about lightener, and I will address ho...

4 Dec 2017

OK, so all three of my blog viewers have surely noticed that I haven’t posted anything in the last month. Wow, a couple of weeks in, and I’ve already blown my posting goals to smithereens. As promised, though…. this blog is gonna be real talk, all the time. A...

Anyone who has dabbled in the field of fashion colors (hey, all you Unicornistas!), knows that the trick is somehow keeping the colors as vibrant as possible, for as long as possible. There’s not much worse than spending all that time and money getting a head full of v...

This is a reprint of a post I made on Facebook on 4 January 2017 that I really feel still holds true and resonates.

What goes through my mind whenever I sense someone with a little disdain or contempt for my career:

I don't just "Do hair". I own and run a business, that...

This topic is a doozy, so let us just start there. There are few things more difficult to talk about than cancer. I promised to keep it real on this blog, so we're gonna jump into it. **DISCLAIMER** Nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Only your...

Wow. What a weekend at the CosmoProf Charlotte Fashion Focus 2017 hair show!
11 October 2017

I got to spend the weekend making beauty magic happen with some legends in my industry. To be honest, I still feel a little overwhelmed by it all. There was so much going on in...