Today we’d like to introduce you to Stephenetta Harmon.
Stephenetta, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Well, that’s a story filled with lots of twists and turns! I fell in love with hair while visiting family-owned salons in my New Jersey hometown and taught myself how to braid my own hair. This turned into a side hustle of braiding family and friends’ hair, but I never thought of the beauty industry as a career. There weren’t many people who looked like me or had hair like mine on mainstream television.
So, growing up in Minnesota, I went from doing hair in college to pay rent to starting a career in journalism and communications. I soon moved back East to New York City and landed work as a coder and contributor for a series of entertainment magazines.