WEBVTT - Hunter Premo and Melissa Schleicher 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.880 Carola. She's a queen of talking. He was so your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.160 She's on the yes, actually got the scoop on side. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:30.200 No one can do wi Caral, Caroline, No one can 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:38.040 do win quiet Caraline, This timple Caroline. You guys, I 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.840 am so fired up. This is my favorite mother daughter 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.400 duo of all times, Hunter and Melissa. They are twins. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:51.080 Basically they look identical, beautiful, studying inside and out. Hunter 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.400 Primo has an incredible blog that is killing it. She's 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.640 a style icon, an incredible influencer, and her mother, Melissa 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.000 is absolutely a badass. She started Parlor three, which is 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:06.680 like the celebrity hair salon and makeup salon, everything that 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.280 you could need beauty. Melissa has it a Parlor three, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.000 and so together these two are conquering the world. And 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:13.720 I'm so excited if you all to hear this interview 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.200 because it inspired me to know and and they're the 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.920 cutest best friend mother daughter do ever, so you're all 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:25.960 get excited for Hunter Melissa. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, I'm 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.440 here with Melissa and Hunter. I don't know how to 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:35.720 see your last name Sliker, slicker, badass and Hunter Primo Primo, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.560 which is the cutest mother daughter duo in all of Nashville. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.560 Hands down, you'll look like twins. If anyone thought you 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.240 are sisters. I mean, there's no way you look like 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.320 a mother. I hope you did, because you all are. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.800 I didn't pull twins. She looks like her dad. Sound yeah, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.080 my dad. They're like, oh, you look more like him. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.880 Do so you got hair? But you have told me 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:05.320 before Hunter that personalities are totally opposite. Totally, absolutely, Hannah. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.640 Melissa's drinking out of a red cello cup, but it's 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.920 not with it's ice coffee. I've given her like signs 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.200 those tumblers and getting I lose them. So if you 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.480 got a Parlor three, there's like twenty in Melow cubbing 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.440 and they're like, could you bring those back home and 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.960 you could use that. You're like, no, I can't be 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.840 for my tumbler. Okay, so explain to me. First off, Melissa, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.919 you own this incredible salon, Parlor three where all the 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.120 slebs go, and you go there. Yes, I gotta get 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.400 there with all the best hair. I'm like, truly, when 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.840 I first moved to town, I ask everyone, where is 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.720 the best salon? Where'd all the best people go? And 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.160 Parlor three was hands down. Everyone said, So, your reputation 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.800 is incredible, your clientele is incredible, and we want to 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.360 talk all about that, but I want to talk about 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.880 this mother daughter situation. So explain. And then Hunter now 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:56.359 is like, you're twenty four, just got married in December. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.920 December and got married last September, so we've been married 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.760 six months. Her tell me what happened fifteen minutes down 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.400 the road by the way, tell me how it's been 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.800 with this, because y'all are the best difference. Tell me 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.480 the person, what the personalities are, how you guys buy 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:17.080 playing your She's opposite of We're totally opposite. So I'm 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.720 a planner, Like I'm very calculated and I don't really 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:25.160 make big decisions without thinking them through. And she there 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.919 dogs that are tiny and so cute. I feel like 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.920 the mom from being Girls were like the ones with 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:36.960 our dogs. Um, So I plan everything out and don't 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.040 really make big decisions without thinking them through. And she 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.520 and I plan my days to you know, keep a 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.880 very tech schedule, and I know what I'm doing when 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:50.680 I wake up. She's I bought her probably how many planners, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.560 and I forget about them and then they're out of 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.440 date and I can't use them. And she does things 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.040 like she just decides one day she's gonna buy a building, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.880 and yeah by building an open a salone. Didn't by 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.000 the building, but just just decided to do it. And 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.120 three for businesses, it was a matter of like a 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.560 few days. The barbershop opened within six weeks. So you 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.120 just get the idea and then you just make it 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.800 happen action and she to it stresses her out and 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.120 gone out. They like both get really stressed with me, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.960 but they just like rot it out with me. But 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.640 I know how I am, but I wanted each other out. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.800 Reeled her back in and sometimes she's like, you know what, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.400 Like with my blog, she was like, just go for it. Well, yes, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.640 for sure, because when she was starting to blog, she 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.520 was getting married. Hunter went straight from college. I went 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.280 to what I thought was my dream job, an amazing job. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.160 It wasn't in pr in pr Yeah. I loved my job, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.360 love my coworkers, and UM thought that it was what 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:46.920 I wanted to do. And then one day I kind 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.880 of woke up and just didn't see myself like in 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.360 that direction. And that's a weird feeling when you reach 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.240 that because especially for young people who I think this 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.760 is really helpful to talk about when you're trying to 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.440 plan out what you want to do. You go to college, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.200 you had these and then you get in it. Sometimes 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.800 you're like, oh, shoot, yeah, so what do you do? 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.120 Did you panic? Like how do you figure out where 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.279 to go next? And how do you know when you're 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.160 not in the right career. My situation was really hard 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.520 because I loved what I was doing and I felt 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.239 like I was good at and I could see myself 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.320 doing it for a while. But then like probably six 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.599 months before that, if that, I had started my blog 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.320 and my opportunities with my blog kind of started to outweigh. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.640 Um yeah, and I just kind of knew in my 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.600 heart like that's I didn't see a future with it, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.360 Like I enjoyed what I was doing day to day, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.280 but I saw my future. I didn't. And the music 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.680 business was hard and I told her to that, you know, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.560 it was hard. You loved it, but and I grew 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.440 up with her being in it, so it was kind 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.520 of cool. Exc ended up working with some people that 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.760 we'd beat events together and like this is weird. Are 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.280 like working and this was weird? So you were doing 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.840 pr for music artists that was like a music company 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.120 or something. I loved it. She worked for a PR company. Yeah, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.240 but I guess, like because PR can cover a lot 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.479 of areas, right, but I guess music would be the 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.000 one music industry. So did you always know you lotch fashion? 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.839 When you started your blog? What did you want to 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.880 blog about? And how did opportunity how did you get 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.800 opportunities to come so fast? Because I feel like in 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.800 this influencer series, a lot of people want to know 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.279 how do you get business, how do you get partnerships? 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.000 How do you start working and actually making money? And 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.080 you did that quickly? Yeah, I mean I started to 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.960 my blog about we were trying to figure it out earlier, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:23.920 like a year and a half, a year and a 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.320 half ago, a half ago, And um, I started because 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.520 I had a website from college because I was a 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.360 journal was a major, so they required you to build 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.320 a website, and um, I wanted a way to share 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.480 like our proposed my camera's proposal story with my family 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.279 and friends. So and you guys are cute, ca y'all 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.400 dated since Yeah, I mean we were on and off 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.680 a little bit in college, but I broke up, which 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.320 they needed to ye. I'm like, I'm like, no, that 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.440 was the best thing you ever did for both of you. Guys. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.520 We grew apart and then we grew together, so it 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.440 was perfect. I got married at nineteen, so I was like, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.919 you know what, you just need to do what you do? 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.039 You know absolutely then you know for sure? Yeah absolutely, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.960 And I knew yeah, still, she gotta gotta try and 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:11.560 be Flavors before I ever wanted him to regret. You know, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.160 don't know anyone else. That's so after our trip to Italy, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.680 I had all these awesome photos because came he as 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.720 a photographer, and I just figured had anything to do 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.880 with it, you know. And the proposal was incredible. Yeah, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.400 And so I was telling the story over and over 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.480 again and everyone was like, the story like really special, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:31.400 Like he buried under a tree. So when I give 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.600 us the summary, got abroad in Florence, and when I 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.160 was there, he was like, you know, bury something for 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.200 me there, and when you graduate, i'll go back. I'll 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.360 go back and I'll take you there and we can 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.480 go back and find it. And so I buried him 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.040 really well. First of all, she forgot where she buried. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.720 She had to call me and go like, go find 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.200 this picture, and so Donna had a look on the computer, remember, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.480 and so she finally found what. I didn't know that 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.040 he was proposing there obviously, so it just made it 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.440 to Florence is a very special place or what else 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.080 he did, though, it just was icing on the cake, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.400 like this is how Cameron is. The first time we 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.600 ever went to Florence, um was with my grandparents, and 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.640 then when I was in college, my grandpa passed away, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.280 and so when he went to propote, he proposed there. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.000 He brought his ashes, so like we buried the Yeah, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.800 it was pretty awesome they were there, but it was 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.520 but it was like, and that's how Cameron is. He 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.480 thinks of those sweet thanks because he knew they were 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.840 reported to her and it was like, oh my gosh, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.360 that's that's how he was. So it's pretty awesome is 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.480 to see your daughter and someone who right absolutely, I 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.480 mean he breaks her hair and stuff. I'm like, he 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.559 really is, and even like Cameron, hey, I needed to 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.960 do this and be like sure, I'll make that. I'll 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.439 figure it out if I don't know how to all 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.760 do it. But he loved their best friends and I 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.839 love that you can ask for a better person. That's 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.600 all you could hope for. That's all we hope for. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.160 I know, because being what is it like being? Okay, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.959 let let's see back to so many questions. I think 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.520 you had built this blog you So he came back. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.160 I wanted to place for all those photos and I 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.360 sat down to our parents kitchen table, didn't tell anyone 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.200 I was doing it, and I think it was like 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.760 the following Monday, I just put on Instagram. I was like, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.960 watch work here. So you pulled them off? You pulled 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.480 them the list and she did, hey, yeah, there's a 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.920 little element when it comes to big action. Hums, you 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.719 did you pull I've never heard my friend's texting and 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.120 like I would have been working on this. I was 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.679 like a day, Like, I mean, it always been back 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.400 in my head that I love that we talked about 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:24.840 it when you're in college and one of the best 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.960 friend from college and I had talked about anyone together 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.760 and then we were going home to different states, are 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.240 like that would be too complicated, so and she hadn't 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.200 blogged out to um yeah, but so yeah, that's how 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.040 my started. And then everyone was like, well, when's your 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.800 next post? And I was like, well, I guess I'll 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.040 start doing I'm so lucky that I have Cameron to 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.920 take on my photos and everything. So so how did 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.400 you start making it profitable? And how did you and 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.120 what is your schedule? Like what as a new blogger 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.120 which you just dove in and started doing it? What 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.520 do you? What are must do is for people who 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.079 are trying to get into this, you want to make 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.840 it a business. You want to have to be their career, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.120 Like what did you do that made you're so successful 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.520 so quickly? I think the biggest thing is to not 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.400 try to be like everyone else and take a great 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.360 pressure when you first start out, like oh this they're 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.440 working with this company and this and that. I think 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.400 that's not always helpful to go off what other people 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.640 are doing. Um, but I mean, obviously a big part 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.480 of my success has been the fact that Camera's a 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.319 photographer and I have him at I suppose all any time. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.400 So it's really been a enjoyed effort and I'm really 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.839 thankful for that. You always have great pictures. How do 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.360 you get brand deals and partnerships? That's what I've always 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.240 been wanting to like, how do you partner up? Yeah, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.840 so I don't understand anything to explain it to me 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.679 all the time. I'm like, oh, that's a cool I'm like, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.080 you should be using it, but I don't. But I 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.280 know it's like it's such a gold mine really, but 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.719 unless you know it's a gold mine, and everyone knows 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.240 it differently too. Yeah, so I have to edit me 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.840 sometimes a proof reader caption stop. I'm like, okay, whatever. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.240 There's really two ways to get sponsorships through UM, like 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.720 social media and your blog, and it's reaching out to brands. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.160 UM for three ways reaching out to brands that you love. So, like, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.920 I go through my day and I'm like, what coffee 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.760 machine rights? What am I wiping my floors with? Like 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.880 we just talked about like little things like that. Because 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.400 I have dogs that people ever d you, I would 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.360 like put an Instagram shot out like what he remember works? 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.240 And y'all like, actually, I got the things you need. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.000 So I just go through my day and I have 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.719 a list of probably thirty brands right now that I 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:36.679 want to reach out to that I use on my phone. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.719 She would keep it in her mind. I keep for 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:43.360 me UM and just you know, say this is why 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:44.880 I love your brand, This is why I think my 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.400 audience would love your brand and like, let's and I 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.840 come with come to them with a project. Yet, so 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.800 do you propose like this would be what I would 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.880 offer you, this would be my rate? Do you offer 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.200 that at the beginning? Um? It depends on situation. So 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.560 like if someone's coming to you with the partect project idea, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.040 it just kind of depends on like the depth of 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.839 what they need and how much content I need to 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.040 create and if they want to use the photos that 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.720 like they want me to not only post a photo, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.040 but they want ours to use for their social content 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.679 they also and it gives like that I would just say, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.319 could what do you need? And then I would provide 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.040 a rate. But I do have, like, you know, a 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.280 rate sheet that has like my general rates for an 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.840 Instagram post and Instagram giveaway, which I think is huge, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.440 Like that has been a big How do you know 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.640 what your rate should be? UM, my friend Julie saw 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.000 him and she has she isn't she's like and she's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.640 right now. Yeah, she's absolutely incredible. UM. I highly had 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.240 to recommend her pitch of perfect courses and her influencer 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.920 podcast for anyone that's just starting out in this crazy world. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.839 But she recommends like a penny per follower, and then 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.600 you can kind of up increase or decrease that based 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.880 on your engagement. So like I have I don't even 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.679 know how many followers, like you usually know how many 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.280 do I have? Text be like do you have forties? 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:13.280 And I can't remembers, So you just do a penny 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.600 per follower and then like I have pretty good engagement, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.160 so I would increase it a little bit. And that's 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.320 just like everyone has different opinions on that, but that's 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.439 like the general that I stepped. Really it's awesome. Okay, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.000 she's I mean really a long time and then they 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.960 met through everything and it's been great just because she's 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.559 she's so smart at us and there it is such 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.400 a business. So I think that's the thing that's so 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.480 interesting right now is how do you how do you 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.439 turn you're following into a business, and like, like what 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.040 do you put out there? So you're saying be true 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.800 to you, So figure out what your brand is, spearitut 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.560 what closed you or if you're at, what product she is, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.760 and then what you offer this different I mean, like 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.480 one thing that I never thought about really including any 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.240 of my blog and social media stuff is like my 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.360 momanized relationship. Like people love the like us together there 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.400 and that's just so like normal to need it, I 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.839 don't think, because it's your life totally speaking of Okay, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.000 so you guys are this mother daughter do it, which 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.320 is truly are so fantastic in your own right, but 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.960 together it's almost electric. Me, Lissa, how did you get 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.959 started in this celebrity hair world? How did you get 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.720 your celebrity client tamptoue? How did you jump into it? Um? So, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.240 I quit high school. And that's the thing that in fact, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:24.600 I mean a lot of people don't know that about me, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.600 I did quit high school. That there's I love when 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.960 there's you don't have to follow a certain path, like 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.640 everyone thinks you have to do A to B, to 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.160 C and D, but really I don't suggest it. I 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.600 never even got your You didn't need it. I didn't. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.480 And it was like I always knew when I was 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.600 a little girl, I was the only child. As I 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.640 have a sister now, but I was the only child. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.400 I had. Every bar we ever made, I would cut 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.960 their hair. I would be so excited to take eyeliner 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.240 and make draw like liquid eyeliner on their eyes. You know. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.680 My my mom was like the neighborhood kids. Yeah. I 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.680 would cut like boys and neighbor's hair. Like when I 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.920 was ten years old. I just loved it. Hair was 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.720 you're saying, it was it? It was it. And my 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.440 mom was terrible with hair makeup. So obviously this is 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.600 just who you are. It's just me. And I liked colors. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.880 Don always says I love to color, So I guess 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.760 the coloring, you know what I mean, like putting colors 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.640 together and all that. So fast forward to quit. I 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.840 went to beauty school and my dad said, well, if 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.120 you're gonna go, you're gonna pay for it. And I 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.840 was like, all right, best thing he. I was sixteen 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.960 seventeen when I went to beauty school. Um went to 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.600 beauty school, and then I was working in a salon 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.240 and Hickory Hollow back in the day, Hickory Hallow was like, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.920 I'm from Nashville, I'm from here. I went to Overton 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.040 High School and I was in Hickory Hollow. Hickory Hollow 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.800 was cool back in the no no, no, it was 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.480 outside the mall. But this guy, Roy Whitehead had a 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.640 salan he bought for his daughter and she didn't work there. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.360 So I worked at the tanning bed place and I 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.160 started in makeup, and then I moved to another salon, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.720 Tina and Company, and I started doing expressions and photography 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.600 like glamor shops. Were you hosing? No, no, I was 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.280 doing all the hair makeup. You would do all the 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:09.760 hair and makeup. I remember there was absolutely so I 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.960 would do it. They would send them to me instead 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.800 it back and then it was like glamour shots in 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.440 the mall. This was like to bring them to you. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.120 And I learned to do hair makeup really fast and 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.760 probably really great. Well. I was just like fast, and 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.600 then my grandmother said something like, oh, you should do 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.920 that for photographers and I was like m and I 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.240 went and did a what what what was next? Hunter? Oh? 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.160 I met some photographers, Michael Gomez, Joe Hardwig, Mark Martin, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.960 all them, and um, I did Barbazon modeling. Do you 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.040 remember Barbazon? Like Barbazon It was a modeling agency back 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.480 in the day. So I did hair and makeup on Sundays, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.800 two Saturdays and Sundays, and I would do three looks 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.000 on like twenty girls in the day. So I got 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.280 really really fast it's probably not many people were doing this. No, no, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.880 not that many. There was a lot of makeup artists 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.720 back in the day, you know, there was like Mary Beth, Debra, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.920 and there just wasn't a whole lot of people. And 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.720 I thinks to Nashville that was probably it wasn't even 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:11.080 blooming like a disnap absolutly not only had a market. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.080 So you were one of the first I was. It 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.879 was there was probably probably seven or eight of its, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.920 like total, Melanie Shelley. So then I went. I met 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:25.480 Melanie Shelley, which owned Trim and Amazing, and I started 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.560 that with her, like a long time ago. That's where 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.119 when it opened, we were all there together. But she 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.159 had a lot of clients and she was busy with 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.200 the Dixie Chicks at the time, so all these people, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.040 she was like, I can't. So then that's why I 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.119 started working with Alan Jackson Land Walmack, and it just 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.720 kept happening, and I never really took a book out. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.840 I remember one time there in my grandmother's house, getting 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.680 all my family to come over and during their makeup 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.200 and put them on the wallpaper wall. You know, we 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.600 take a book as like a book like a portfolio. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:01.720 You never really advertised never never old school Instagram absolutely, yeah, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.800 what a book? Yeah, so I had one, but I 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.000 never used it or anything. But it was like you 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.000 didn't need to because you're wors spreading word amount and 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.800 it was fun. And so I remember my grandmother, she 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.520 was very into what I did. And I was like, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.080 they called me and asked me to this photo shoot 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.520 and I'm going to be there two hours and they're 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.040 gonna pay me three hundred and fifty dollars. Well, back 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.240 then a lot of money. That's a lot of money. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.720 I mean, that's a lot of money now. But it's 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.520 like two hours, and my grandmother goes, Melissa, there's something 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.240 to that. Well then all these photographers worked in the 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.280 same building. Well they all started hiring me because they 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.159 netted to hear you say that, because it's almost like 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.760 what happened with your blogging. I call you be like, hey, 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.640 this company was maybe this, Like I know, it's it's 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.159 kind of the same thing. They're kind of falling on 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.919 my footsteps a little bit. It's a little bit like 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.119 it's a little bit I mean, you're you're being on 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.760 entrepreneur and it's like truly, so That's what happened. And 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.000 then I didn't I work, didn't work in the salon 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:00.800 because I was free, like, and then I started picking 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.400 up so many clients where I traveled all the time. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.720 When she was little, Don was Mr Mom like he 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:09.080 took care of her and I went yeah. And then um, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.800 fast forward to now what seven years ago? Open Parlor three, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.720 clearly on a win, Like you said, totally. I wanted 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.600 a make up store. That's all I wanted. So you've 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.120 been traveling with celebrity clientele for makeup. I mean you've 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.439 just done everyone all. Can you say? Um out? I 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.320 mean there's been so many different celebrities over the years, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.200 but um, Alan was my first client. So and he's 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.000 still my client. He's like, you don't want to do me. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.760 I'm old. Now I'm like, I'll still take care of you. All. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.040 That was not longer. He was in g Q. I 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.879 was like, yeah, but Alan Lorette lyne Um, how about Honey, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.400 Patty Loveless, Carrie Underwood, Well, yeah that's pretty Uh. I've 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.240 worked to carry for thirteen years since she came up Idle. Yeah, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:58.399