Afro Hair -Texture and Color Specialist

I graduated from the Aveda Institute in 2014, but my relationship with Afro hair began long before licensure. Raised in a household where relaxers were withheld until adulthood, I once resented what I now recognize as the beginning of my education in Black embodiment.

Afro hair is deeply sacred to me—defying gravitational pull, and deeply political. Through cosmetology school and years as a commercial stylist, I came to understand the beauty industry as a system built on speed, extraction, and the commodification of the Black body. The Black Beauty School Cosmos emerged from this reckoning: a refusal of colonial timelines imposed on textured hair through harmful coloring practices and careless technique.

While I remain licensed, my work is about removing the middleman—undoing harm, returning to slow intention, and restoring the kitchen-table politics of our grannies. Our coils require time, care, and reverence. In tending them, we tend ourselves.