Let's start from the beginning...

  At the young age of twelve years old I was playing with contour sticks and shadow palettes. It was my version of therapy. As a child with health issues, it was hard to go to school and follow a 'normal' routine. Makeup saved me. It was the idea of different colors and all the endless possibilities of art you could create that made me fall so in love with it. Fun fact, I'm actually color blind! 

  However, makeup wasn't something I ever imagined I would make a career out of. I was running a baking business out of my parents kitchen at just nine years old, and I thought that was it for me. I would go to pastry school and own a bakery. 

Fast forward to the end of high school. I was eighteen years old and a 2020 high school graduate -- and then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. I spent weeks on end locked up in my house with my family and I spent my time baking. I slowly started finding it more and more of an annoyance over the years, but it was what I was known for so I would bake for 'fun' rather than for customers so I could try to find that passion again. It never came back.

  Summer of 2021, still in the thick of the pandemic, my family and I tested positive for the virus. It was terrifying. We quarantined in different parts of the house and would video chat all day long so we weren't alone. The boredom was insurmountable-- so I dowloaded Pinterest. 

  Now you ask how baking, a virus and Pinterest could possibly be relevant to meeting me and learning about my studio? Here's where it all comes together.

   Nineteen years old, worried my career would no longer be an enjoyment for me, sick in bed with COVID, and Pinterest on my phone. I began looking up cake ideas to inspire me to get back in the kitchen once I was feeling better. Before I knew it, I was three hours deep into scrolling and I was no longer looking at cakes. I was watching these amazingly talented men and women with faces painted with intricate colors and designs. One even had 3-D spiders crawling out her mouth-- all done with makeup! A light inside of me instantly sparked and I asked myself, "What is one thing besides baking that has always made you happy?" The answer was makeup. Before I knew it, it was six in the morning and I was recreating that same spider look that made me so excited to see. 

  Within three months, I was COVID-negative and attending beauty school. I fell in love not only with the makeup program, but the skin program too! I thought to myself -- When I go to a salon, what do I want to feel when I leave? That simple question was what created my spa's name. I want to feel like I am at my Peak.

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