The gig: As a stylist, I dress celebrities for anything like a red carpet event to them going to the grocery store. It just kind of depends on the extent to which they want and need to be styled.
The journey: Since the age of 2, I was set on being a doctor. But my mom used to dress us up even when we weren't going anywhere. I remember being 6, always having to get dressed just to sit at home and go nowhere. So getting dressed up for me was just a way of life. I didn't own my first pair of sweatpants until years after I graduated college. While everyone was going to class in sweatpants, I was fully dressed. I was the girl that was walking around that huge campus in my 5-inch stilettos and didn't care that I probably walked a mile that day.
Her biggest lesson learned: One of the biggest challenges that I faced as an entrepreneur and as a stylist was that I had never interned or assisted under anyone. So often times I doubted myself and didn't want people to know that I was untrained even though I had the talent. I beat myself up a lot until I realized we're not born knowing everything and we have to go through life and learn as we go.
Dressing for the job 101: I always say that you're addressed the way you dress. Even if you're not in the position that you want to be in yet, you need to be dressed for it. If you work at a Jaguar dealership and you're selling Jags, I'm not going to buy a Jag from you if you don't like you drive one. I just think overall image is really, really important for people that want to be taken seriously in any field.
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