MCB

Hi.

If you want to know about me before we meet in person, I apologize in advance for my lack of facebook. I made this website mostly at the request of other people, both current clients and those who might never get lashes. So if you’d prefer to sleep rather than chat during your appointment and don’t mind reading a little now, here’s my backstory.

I am passionate about details, constantly seeking perfection, so that explains how I got here in the short version. I am also learning to accept how to just be here and that’s all right also. I am not a Fortune Anything company, I’m just a fairly regular human.

I would have loved to be a painter or writer, but I was brought up in a conventional world that taught that an artist’s life is too hard to reasonably sustain. I ended up with a BS in government - both the joke and the reality. I decided not to pursue law school and started mixing mineral makeup in a lab, and considered my options.

In 2010 I stumbled upon lash extensions in esthetics school while it was still a relatively new discipline, and before graduation I had a job at one of the only places in Austin–probably one of a handful in the country that specialized in lashes at the time. I was living a strange kind of niche dream!

I loved it as only a workaholic can. I would probably still be there, but around the same time that the industry began to change I also got breast cancer and have been restructuring my life ever since. I may not be a painter, but I suppose that my life looks a bit like a Picasso painting.

I never stopped doing lashes; as anyone who has a craft knows it is hard to ever put his or her tools away for good - but due to my life circumstances, my perspective altered as well. There were complications with my last surgery, which, while mainly “cosmetic,” caused an internal struggle with body image and I wondered if I could ever go back to working in the salon/spa industry. On the surface, lash extensions seem superficial. But just like Botox, hair dye, pedicures & massages, it is also about trust, self care, taking time to step away from your reality and let someone else take care of you. And while I love the intricate application process and that ability to subtly transform your look in just a few brief hours with dye and design, I had forgotten something incredibly important: that the real value is in that trust that you put in me, and the relationships that are established between people along the way.

xoxo,

Melanie