life update !
well well well, if it isn’t me again after 3 full years of radio silence. i thought about making an entirely new website and then i was like…why would i do that when i have a perfectly good one that just needs some work? so, here i am! back on the blog! i went through a period of feeling so horrible, lost, and uninspired and am happy to say that i’m on the other side of that, and now just a big ball of anxiety (which i’d take over hopelessness any day). i’m still exploring all of the things i want to do and be, but i’m feeling like i have a lot more direction and clarity, and excited to start sharing things again.
in 2021 i decided to go beauty school and become a hairstylist. i’ve spent my whole life doing my own hair, friends hair, my sisters hair. pretty much anyone who would let me do their hair, i did it. but i didn’t think of it as something i could do myself professionally, despite hair modeling professionally lol. during the pandemic, i found myself missing my hair modeling jobs more than i missed my actual job. i started telling people that if i had the money and the time, i’d go to school and become a hairstylist. i didn’t have money, but in early 2021, i had more time than i knew what to do with. i started looking into what going to beauty school would look like, how much it would cost, and what i’d need to do to make it happen. after talking to some trusted stylist friends, and figuring out my finances, i decided that i’d start school in january of 2022. i spent the rest of 2021 nannying, saving as much money as i could, and enjoying any free time i had. i knew once i started school my life was going to change in a huge way.
i knew it was going to take about a year to finish school from the time i started, and while i was there i did everything i could to get as much out of it as possible. i did whatever i could to speed along the process, and did hair on my days off to get extra practice where i could. i could write an entirely separate post about things i wish i knew before starting beauty school, but i’ll for now i’ll just say that i was beyond thrilled to graduate and get to work. i started working in a salon the week after i graduated, and recently moved from that salon to assisting an independent stylist who does lots of house calls and set work, which i LOVE. i feel like i’m exactly where i need to be, but also where i want to be, which feels really really good.
all of that to say, i’m so glad to be here again, and so excited to share more hair, beauty, life stuff, and things i love with anyone reading this.
xx
tm