A little back story...
I love playing with hair. It’s in my DNA. Cutting my own bangs as a kid. Highlighting Barbie's hair with actual highlighters. Giving my American Girl doll a pixie cut (sorry, mom). It's just who I am.
So, in 2009, after deciding that community college wasn’t it, I pivoted and attended cosmetology school at the Gene Juarez Academy (RIP) in Northgate, Seattle. From there, I spent 6+ years at a kid's salon in Bellevue, WA.
Then, to make a long story short: Got married. Left the hair biz. Moved to eastern Washington. Got a remote job. Moved back. Got divorced. Spent the next 6+ years building a marketing career.
By early 2024, the "grind" of Corporate America had destroyed my mental health, and I decided to get back to what’s always felt like home: doing hair.
I launched my business in April 2024, moved into my own salon studio in September 2025, and can confidently say that coming back behind the chair is the best decision I've ever made.
Why the "silver stylist?"
As a teen, I fell in love with the show, What Not to Wear. I specifically remember saying to myself, "If my gray hair looks like Stacy London's when I get older, I'm NEVER coloring it." And I truly believe that's how I manifested what’s now my signature silver streak.
My dad was a young silver fox, so I wasn't surprised when, at 23, I found a cluster of grays sprouting. What did I do? Plucked them (because society said I was "too young" to be going gray), only to find them standing straight up a month later. Lesson learned: they always come back.
Fast forward about a decade and many, many styles and colors later, I decided I actually really liked how my gray was coming in and wanted to see what it would do. So I quit the color at 32 and never looked back.
My mission is to challenge why society has us conditioned to feel like there’s something wrong with silver hair. And to help women unlearn the decades of toxic messaging about aging that’s been thrust upon us.
I want to empower women to make their own choices about how they approach their unique aging experience. Because, my loves, if you're not aging... you're dead. So maybe it's okay to be excited about all the things that come with it—like silver hair.
Products & haircare
I'm not your typical stylist when it comes to hair products.
I believe that nature knows what she's doing. So instead of prescribing an expensive, chemical heavy, 12-step haircare routine for my clients, I tend to lean on the less-is-more approach.
I’ll always recommend natural alternatives (like rosewater and grapeseed oil) if you need a less expensive option that's better for your hair than whatever you'll find at the drugstore.
That said, there are a few brands I swear by and use in the salon—and at home. There are plenty of times where a high-quality product makes a huge difference, especially if you're chemically treating your hair. The more natural products don't always have what your hair needs to balance it out.
Enter: Redken, Privé, and K18. My holy trinity.
Everyone's hair, lifestyle, and goals are different. My job is to help you find the right balance and routine so you don't just leave the salon confident, but you're able to recreate that confidence at home, too.
