“I’ve always been obsessed with hair, ever since I was a small child.. I was born a hairdresser. I have a sister that’s two years older and she was a tomboy when we were young. Because we’re so close in age, we would get similar presents at Christmas. I’ll never forget, one year she got a Princess Leia doll and I got Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. We both looked at our dolls and immediately switched. With Princess Leia, all I wanted to do was undo her giant cinnamon buns and restyle her hair. That was when I was around 7. That same Christmas, my sister also got an over-sized Barbie head, where you could play with her hair and put makeup on. That was the greatest day of MY life. I watched my sister open her presents and she was never that impressed with them, but for me, all I kept thinking was, “I can’t wait to get my hands on that.” Within a week, Barbie had a short pixie hair cut. When I graduated from high school, I went straight to college at Traviss Vocational Technical School in Lakeland, Florida. College for me was such a bore. On the weekends, I was a club kid. I was known as the club kid that would do everyone’s hair. I would make hair-dos with plastic flowers, plastic skirts. We had no money, so we had to be really creative — we would come up with these crazy outfits and hair styles. At some point, I decided to hunker down. I dropped out of college and enrolled at hair school. I put myself through cosmet...