As told to Alyssa Shelasky.
I was born in raised in Brooklyn, the Crown Heights/Flatbush border. As a little girl, I didn't like what stylists did with my hair. I was always like, "Why she did that? That smells horrible!" I'd come home and make it prettier.
My mother, who's from Grenada and very old-school Caribbean, set me up in her laundry room, in the basement. She put a mirror on a nail; we laid all my stuff out, and I'd do my friends' hair. After junior high, I was like, "I just want to do hair." My mother's hairstylist told her to send me to Sarah J. Hale, a vocational school where I could learn hair. It changed my life. I worked every day after school, with curling irons in my book bag. The neighborhoods I worked in were all African-American — it just made sense to work at the salon on the corner of my mother's house. Then I worked in downtown Brooklyn, which felt big.
Via: I Am Rihannas Hairstylist
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