Speaker 1: Carola. She's a queen of talking. He was so your man.
Speaker 1: She's on the yes, actually got the scoop on side.
Speaker 1: No one can do wi Caral, Caroline, No one can
Speaker 1: do win quiet Caraline, This timple Caroline. You guys, I
Speaker 1: am so fired up. This is my favorite mother daughter
Speaker 1: duo of all times, Hunter and Melissa. They are twins.
Speaker 1: Basically they look identical, beautiful, studying inside and out. Hunter
Speaker 1: Primo has an incredible blog that is killing it. She's
Speaker 1: a style icon, an incredible influencer, and her mother, Melissa
Speaker 1: is absolutely a badass. She started Parlor three, which is
Speaker 1: like the celebrity hair salon and makeup salon, everything that
Speaker 1: you could need beauty. Melissa has it a Parlor three,
Speaker 1: and so together these two are conquering the world. And
Speaker 1: I'm so excited if you all to hear this interview
Speaker 1: because it inspired me to know and and they're the
Speaker 1: cutest best friend mother daughter do ever, so you're all
Speaker 1: get excited for Hunter Melissa. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, I'm
Speaker 1: here with Melissa and Hunter. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: see your last name Sliker, slicker, badass and Hunter Primo Primo,
Speaker 1: which is the cutest mother daughter duo in all of Nashville.
Speaker 1: Hands down, you'll look like twins. If anyone thought you
Speaker 1: are sisters. I mean, there's no way you look like
Speaker 1: a mother. I hope you did, because you all are.
Speaker 1: I didn't pull twins. She looks like her dad. Sound yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad. They're like, oh, you look more like him.
Speaker 1: Do so you got hair? But you have told me
Speaker 1: before Hunter that personalities are totally opposite. Totally, absolutely, Hannah.
Speaker 1: Melissa's drinking out of a red cello cup, but it's
Speaker 1: not with it's ice coffee. I've given her like signs
Speaker 1: those tumblers and getting I lose them. So if you
Speaker 1: got a Parlor three, there's like twenty in Melow cubbing
Speaker 1: and they're like, could you bring those back home and
Speaker 1: you could use that. You're like, no, I can't be
Speaker 1: for my tumbler. Okay, so explain to me. First off, Melissa,
Speaker 1: you own this incredible salon, Parlor three where all the
Speaker 1: slebs go, and you go there. Yes, I gotta get
Speaker 1: there with all the best hair. I'm like, truly, when
Speaker 1: I first moved to town, I ask everyone, where is
Speaker 1: the best salon? Where'd all the best people go? And
Speaker 1: Parlor three was hands down. Everyone said, So, your reputation
Speaker 1: is incredible, your clientele is incredible, and we want to
Speaker 1: talk all about that, but I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this mother daughter situation. So explain. And then Hunter now
Speaker 1: is like, you're twenty four, just got married in December.
Speaker 1: December and got married last September, so we've been married
Speaker 1: six months. Her tell me what happened fifteen minutes down
Speaker 1: the road by the way, tell me how it's been
Speaker 1: with this, because y'all are the best difference. Tell me
Speaker 1: the person, what the personalities are, how you guys buy
Speaker 1: playing your She's opposite of We're totally opposite. So I'm
Speaker 1: a planner, Like I'm very calculated and I don't really
Speaker 1: make big decisions without thinking them through. And she there
Speaker 1: dogs that are tiny and so cute. I feel like
Speaker 1: the mom from being Girls were like the ones with
Speaker 1: our dogs. Um, So I plan everything out and don't
Speaker 1: really make big decisions without thinking them through. And she
Speaker 1: and I plan my days to you know, keep a
Speaker 1: very tech schedule, and I know what I'm doing when
Speaker 1: I wake up. She's I bought her probably how many planners,
Speaker 1: and I forget about them and then they're out of
Speaker 1: date and I can't use them. And she does things
Speaker 1: like she just decides one day she's gonna buy a building,
Speaker 1: and yeah by building an open a salone. Didn't by
Speaker 1: the building, but just just decided to do it. And
Speaker 1: three for businesses, it was a matter of like a
Speaker 1: few days. The barbershop opened within six weeks. So you
Speaker 1: just get the idea and then you just make it
Speaker 1: happen action and she to it stresses her out and
Speaker 1: gone out. They like both get really stressed with me,
Speaker 1: but they just like rot it out with me. But
Speaker 1: I know how I am, but I wanted each other out.
Speaker 1: Reeled her back in and sometimes she's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: Like with my blog, she was like, just go for it. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, because when she was starting to blog, she
Speaker 1: was getting married. Hunter went straight from college. I went
Speaker 1: to what I thought was my dream job, an amazing job.
Speaker 1: It wasn't in pr in pr Yeah. I loved my job,
Speaker 1: love my coworkers, and UM thought that it was what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And then one day I kind
Speaker 1: of woke up and just didn't see myself like in
Speaker 1: that direction. And that's a weird feeling when you reach
Speaker 1: that because especially for young people who I think this
Speaker 1: is really helpful to talk about when you're trying to
Speaker 1: plan out what you want to do. You go to college,
Speaker 1: you had these and then you get in it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, shoot, yeah, so what do you do?
Speaker 1: Did you panic? Like how do you figure out where
Speaker 1: to go next? And how do you know when you're
Speaker 1: not in the right career. My situation was really hard
Speaker 1: because I loved what I was doing and I felt
Speaker 1: like I was good at and I could see myself
Speaker 1: doing it for a while. But then like probably six
Speaker 1: months before that, if that, I had started my blog
Speaker 1: and my opportunities with my blog kind of started to outweigh.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, and I just kind of knew in my
Speaker 1: heart like that's I didn't see a future with it,
Speaker 1: Like I enjoyed what I was doing day to day,
Speaker 1: but I saw my future. I didn't. And the music
Speaker 1: business was hard and I told her to that, you know,
Speaker 1: it was hard. You loved it, but and I grew
Speaker 1: up with her being in it, so it was kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Exc ended up working with some people that
Speaker 1: we'd beat events together and like this is weird. Are
Speaker 1: like working and this was weird? So you were doing
Speaker 1: pr for music artists that was like a music company
Speaker 1: or something. I loved it. She worked for a PR company. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guess, like because PR can cover a lot
Speaker 1: of areas, right, but I guess music would be the
Speaker 1: one music industry. So did you always know you lotch fashion?
Speaker 1: When you started your blog? What did you want to
Speaker 1: blog about? And how did opportunity how did you get
Speaker 1: opportunities to come so fast? Because I feel like in
Speaker 1: this influencer series, a lot of people want to know
Speaker 1: how do you get business, how do you get partnerships?
Speaker 1: How do you start working and actually making money? And
Speaker 1: you did that quickly? Yeah, I mean I started to
Speaker 1: my blog about we were trying to figure it out earlier,
Speaker 1: like a year and a half, a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago, a half ago, And um, I started because
Speaker 1: I had a website from college because I was a
Speaker 1: journal was a major, so they required you to build
Speaker 1: a website, and um, I wanted a way to share
Speaker 1: like our proposed my camera's proposal story with my family
Speaker 1: and friends. So and you guys are cute, ca y'all
Speaker 1: dated since Yeah, I mean we were on and off
Speaker 1: a little bit in college, but I broke up, which
Speaker 1: they needed to ye. I'm like, I'm like, no, that
Speaker 1: was the best thing you ever did for both of you. Guys.
Speaker 1: We grew apart and then we grew together, so it
Speaker 1: was perfect. I got married at nineteen, so I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you just need to do what you do?
Speaker 1: You know absolutely then you know for sure? Yeah absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I knew yeah, still, she gotta gotta try and
Speaker 1: be Flavors before I ever wanted him to regret. You know,
Speaker 1: don't know anyone else. That's so after our trip to Italy,
Speaker 1: I had all these awesome photos because came he as
Speaker 1: a photographer, and I just figured had anything to do
Speaker 1: with it, you know. And the proposal was incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I was telling the story over and over
Speaker 1: again and everyone was like, the story like really special,
Speaker 1: Like he buried under a tree. So when I give
Speaker 1: us the summary, got abroad in Florence, and when I
Speaker 1: was there, he was like, you know, bury something for
Speaker 1: me there, and when you graduate, i'll go back. I'll
Speaker 1: go back and I'll take you there and we can
Speaker 1: go back and find it. And so I buried him
Speaker 1: really well. First of all, she forgot where she buried.
Speaker 1: She had to call me and go like, go find
Speaker 1: this picture, and so Donna had a look on the computer, remember,
Speaker 1: and so she finally found what. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: he was proposing there obviously, so it just made it
Speaker 1: to Florence is a very special place or what else
Speaker 1: he did, though, it just was icing on the cake,
Speaker 1: like this is how Cameron is. The first time we
Speaker 1: ever went to Florence, um was with my grandparents, and
Speaker 1: then when I was in college, my grandpa passed away,
Speaker 1: and so when he went to propote, he proposed there.
Speaker 1: He brought his ashes, so like we buried the Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty awesome they were there, but it was
Speaker 1: but it was like, and that's how Cameron is. He
Speaker 1: thinks of those sweet thanks because he knew they were
Speaker 1: reported to her and it was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's that's how he was. So it's pretty awesome is
Speaker 1: to see your daughter and someone who right absolutely, I
Speaker 1: mean he breaks her hair and stuff. I'm like, he
Speaker 1: really is, and even like Cameron, hey, I needed to
Speaker 1: do this and be like sure, I'll make that. I'll
Speaker 1: figure it out if I don't know how to all
Speaker 1: do it. But he loved their best friends and I
Speaker 1: love that you can ask for a better person. That's
Speaker 1: all you could hope for. That's all we hope for.
Speaker 1: I know, because being what is it like being? Okay,
Speaker 1: let let's see back to so many questions. I think
Speaker 1: you had built this blog you So he came back.
Speaker 1: I wanted to place for all those photos and I
Speaker 1: sat down to our parents kitchen table, didn't tell anyone
Speaker 1: I was doing it, and I think it was like
Speaker 1: the following Monday, I just put on Instagram. I was like,
Speaker 1: watch work here. So you pulled them off? You pulled
Speaker 1: them the list and she did, hey, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: little element when it comes to big action. Hums, you
Speaker 1: did you pull I've never heard my friend's texting and
Speaker 1: like I would have been working on this. I was
Speaker 1: like a day, Like, I mean, it always been back
Speaker 1: in my head that I love that we talked about
Speaker 1: it when you're in college and one of the best
Speaker 1: friend from college and I had talked about anyone together
Speaker 1: and then we were going home to different states, are
Speaker 1: like that would be too complicated, so and she hadn't
Speaker 1: blogged out to um yeah, but so yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: my started. And then everyone was like, well, when's your
Speaker 1: next post? And I was like, well, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: start doing I'm so lucky that I have Cameron to
Speaker 1: take on my photos and everything. So so how did
Speaker 1: you start making it profitable? And how did you and
Speaker 1: what is your schedule? Like what as a new blogger
Speaker 1: which you just dove in and started doing it? What
Speaker 1: do you? What are must do is for people who
Speaker 1: are trying to get into this, you want to make
Speaker 1: it a business. You want to have to be their career,
Speaker 1: Like what did you do that made you're so successful
Speaker 1: so quickly? I think the biggest thing is to not
Speaker 1: try to be like everyone else and take a great
Speaker 1: pressure when you first start out, like oh this they're
Speaker 1: working with this company and this and that. I think
Speaker 1: that's not always helpful to go off what other people
Speaker 1: are doing. Um, but I mean, obviously a big part
Speaker 1: of my success has been the fact that Camera's a
Speaker 1: photographer and I have him at I suppose all any time.
Speaker 1: So it's really been a enjoyed effort and I'm really
Speaker 1: thankful for that. You always have great pictures. How do
Speaker 1: you get brand deals and partnerships? That's what I've always
Speaker 1: been wanting to like, how do you partner up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't understand anything to explain it to me
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm like, oh, that's a cool I'm like,
Speaker 1: you should be using it, but I don't. But I
Speaker 1: know it's like it's such a gold mine really, but
Speaker 1: unless you know it's a gold mine, and everyone knows
Speaker 1: it differently too. Yeah, so I have to edit me
Speaker 1: sometimes a proof reader caption stop. I'm like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: There's really two ways to get sponsorships through UM, like
Speaker 1: social media and your blog, and it's reaching out to brands.
Speaker 1: UM for three ways reaching out to brands that you love. So, like,
Speaker 1: I go through my day and I'm like, what coffee
Speaker 1: machine rights? What am I wiping my floors with? Like
Speaker 1: we just talked about like little things like that. Because
Speaker 1: I have dogs that people ever d you, I would
Speaker 1: like put an Instagram shot out like what he remember works?
Speaker 1: And y'all like, actually, I got the things you need.
Speaker 1: So I just go through my day and I have
Speaker 1: a list of probably thirty brands right now that I
Speaker 1: want to reach out to that I use on my phone.
Speaker 1: She would keep it in her mind. I keep for
Speaker 1: me UM and just you know, say this is why
Speaker 1: I love your brand, This is why I think my
Speaker 1: audience would love your brand and like, let's and I
Speaker 1: come with come to them with a project. Yet, so
Speaker 1: do you propose like this would be what I would
Speaker 1: offer you, this would be my rate? Do you offer
Speaker 1: that at the beginning? Um? It depends on situation. So
Speaker 1: like if someone's coming to you with the partect project idea,
Speaker 1: it just kind of depends on like the depth of
Speaker 1: what they need and how much content I need to
Speaker 1: create and if they want to use the photos that
Speaker 1: like they want me to not only post a photo,
Speaker 1: but they want ours to use for their social content
Speaker 1: they also and it gives like that I would just say,
Speaker 1: could what do you need? And then I would provide
Speaker 1: a rate. But I do have, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: rate sheet that has like my general rates for an
Speaker 1: Instagram post and Instagram giveaway, which I think is huge,
Speaker 1: Like that has been a big How do you know
Speaker 1: what your rate should be? UM, my friend Julie saw
Speaker 1: him and she has she isn't she's like and she's
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, she's absolutely incredible. UM. I highly had
Speaker 1: to recommend her pitch of perfect courses and her influencer
Speaker 1: podcast for anyone that's just starting out in this crazy world.
Speaker 1: But she recommends like a penny per follower, and then
Speaker 1: you can kind of up increase or decrease that based
Speaker 1: on your engagement. So like I have I don't even
Speaker 1: know how many followers, like you usually know how many
Speaker 1: do I have? Text be like do you have forties?
Speaker 1: And I can't remembers, So you just do a penny
Speaker 1: per follower and then like I have pretty good engagement,
Speaker 1: so I would increase it a little bit. And that's
Speaker 1: just like everyone has different opinions on that, but that's
Speaker 1: like the general that I stepped. Really it's awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's I mean really a long time and then they
Speaker 1: met through everything and it's been great just because she's
Speaker 1: she's so smart at us and there it is such
Speaker 1: a business. So I think that's the thing that's so
Speaker 1: interesting right now is how do you how do you
Speaker 1: turn you're following into a business, and like, like what
Speaker 1: do you put out there? So you're saying be true
Speaker 1: to you, So figure out what your brand is, spearitut
Speaker 1: what closed you or if you're at, what product she is,
Speaker 1: and then what you offer this different I mean, like
Speaker 1: one thing that I never thought about really including any
Speaker 1: of my blog and social media stuff is like my
Speaker 1: momanized relationship. Like people love the like us together there
Speaker 1: and that's just so like normal to need it, I
Speaker 1: don't think, because it's your life totally speaking of Okay,
Speaker 1: so you guys are this mother daughter do it, which
Speaker 1: is truly are so fantastic in your own right, but
Speaker 1: together it's almost electric. Me, Lissa, how did you get
Speaker 1: started in this celebrity hair world? How did you get
Speaker 1: your celebrity client tamptoue? How did you jump into it? Um? So,
Speaker 1: I quit high school. And that's the thing that in fact,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people don't know that about me,
Speaker 1: I did quit high school. That there's I love when
Speaker 1: there's you don't have to follow a certain path, like
Speaker 1: everyone thinks you have to do A to B, to
Speaker 1: C and D, but really I don't suggest it. I
Speaker 1: never even got your You didn't need it. I didn't.
Speaker 1: And it was like I always knew when I was
Speaker 1: a little girl, I was the only child. As I
Speaker 1: have a sister now, but I was the only child.
Speaker 1: I had. Every bar we ever made, I would cut
Speaker 1: their hair. I would be so excited to take eyeliner
Speaker 1: and make draw like liquid eyeliner on their eyes. You know.
Speaker 1: My my mom was like the neighborhood kids. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: would cut like boys and neighbor's hair. Like when I
Speaker 1: was ten years old. I just loved it. Hair was
Speaker 1: you're saying, it was it? It was it. And my
Speaker 1: mom was terrible with hair makeup. So obviously this is
Speaker 1: just who you are. It's just me. And I liked colors.
Speaker 1: Don always says I love to color, So I guess
Speaker 1: the coloring, you know what I mean, like putting colors
Speaker 1: together and all that. So fast forward to quit. I
Speaker 1: went to beauty school and my dad said, well, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go, you're gonna pay for it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, best thing he. I was sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen when I went to beauty school. Um went to
Speaker 1: beauty school, and then I was working in a salon
Speaker 1: and Hickory Hollow back in the day, Hickory Hallow was like,
Speaker 1: I'm from Nashville, I'm from here. I went to Overton
Speaker 1: High School and I was in Hickory Hollow. Hickory Hollow
Speaker 1: was cool back in the no no, no, it was
Speaker 1: outside the mall. But this guy, Roy Whitehead had a
Speaker 1: salan he bought for his daughter and she didn't work there.
Speaker 1: So I worked at the tanning bed place and I
Speaker 1: started in makeup, and then I moved to another salon,
Speaker 1: Tina and Company, and I started doing expressions and photography
Speaker 1: like glamor shops. Were you hosing? No, no, I was
Speaker 1: doing all the hair makeup. You would do all the
Speaker 1: hair and makeup. I remember there was absolutely so I
Speaker 1: would do it. They would send them to me instead
Speaker 1: it back and then it was like glamour shots in
Speaker 1: the mall. This was like to bring them to you.
Speaker 1: And I learned to do hair makeup really fast and
Speaker 1: probably really great. Well. I was just like fast, and
Speaker 1: then my grandmother said something like, oh, you should do
Speaker 1: that for photographers and I was like m and I
Speaker 1: went and did a what what what was next? Hunter? Oh?
Speaker 1: I met some photographers, Michael Gomez, Joe Hardwig, Mark Martin,
Speaker 1: all them, and um, I did Barbazon modeling. Do you
Speaker 1: remember Barbazon? Like Barbazon It was a modeling agency back
Speaker 1: in the day. So I did hair and makeup on Sundays,
Speaker 1: two Saturdays and Sundays, and I would do three looks
Speaker 1: on like twenty girls in the day. So I got
Speaker 1: really really fast it's probably not many people were doing this. No, no,
Speaker 1: not that many. There was a lot of makeup artists
Speaker 1: back in the day, you know, there was like Mary Beth, Debra,
Speaker 1: and there just wasn't a whole lot of people. And
Speaker 1: I thinks to Nashville that was probably it wasn't even
Speaker 1: blooming like a disnap absolutly not only had a market.
Speaker 1: So you were one of the first I was. It
Speaker 1: was there was probably probably seven or eight of its,
Speaker 1: like total, Melanie Shelley. So then I went. I met
Speaker 1: Melanie Shelley, which owned Trim and Amazing, and I started
Speaker 1: that with her, like a long time ago. That's where
Speaker 1: when it opened, we were all there together. But she
Speaker 1: had a lot of clients and she was busy with
Speaker 1: the Dixie Chicks at the time, so all these people,
Speaker 1: she was like, I can't. So then that's why I
Speaker 1: started working with Alan Jackson Land Walmack, and it just
Speaker 1: kept happening, and I never really took a book out.
Speaker 1: I remember one time there in my grandmother's house, getting
Speaker 1: all my family to come over and during their makeup
Speaker 1: and put them on the wallpaper wall. You know, we
Speaker 1: take a book as like a book like a portfolio.
Speaker 1: You never really advertised never never old school Instagram absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: what a book? Yeah, so I had one, but I
Speaker 1: never used it or anything. But it was like you
Speaker 1: didn't need to because you're wors spreading word amount and
Speaker 1: it was fun. And so I remember my grandmother, she
Speaker 1: was very into what I did. And I was like,
Speaker 1: they called me and asked me to this photo shoot
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be there two hours and they're
Speaker 1: gonna pay me three hundred and fifty dollars. Well, back
Speaker 1: then a lot of money. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of money now. But it's
Speaker 1: like two hours, and my grandmother goes, Melissa, there's something
Speaker 1: to that. Well then all these photographers worked in the
Speaker 1: same building. Well they all started hiring me because they
Speaker 1: netted to hear you say that, because it's almost like
Speaker 1: what happened with your blogging. I call you be like, hey,
Speaker 1: this company was maybe this, Like I know, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing. They're kind of falling on
Speaker 1: my footsteps a little bit. It's a little bit like
Speaker 1: it's a little bit I mean, you're you're being on
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and it's like truly, so That's what happened. And
Speaker 1: then I didn't I work, didn't work in the salon
Speaker 1: because I was free, like, and then I started picking
Speaker 1: up so many clients where I traveled all the time.
Speaker 1: When she was little, Don was Mr Mom like he
Speaker 1: took care of her and I went yeah. And then um,
Speaker 1: fast forward to now what seven years ago? Open Parlor three,
Speaker 1: clearly on a win, Like you said, totally. I wanted
Speaker 1: a make up store. That's all I wanted. So you've
Speaker 1: been traveling with celebrity clientele for makeup. I mean you've
Speaker 1: just done everyone all. Can you say? Um out? I
Speaker 1: mean there's been so many different celebrities over the years,
Speaker 1: but um, Alan was my first client. So and he's
Speaker 1: still my client. He's like, you don't want to do me.
Speaker 1: I'm old. Now I'm like, I'll still take care of you. All.
Speaker 1: That was not longer. He was in g Q. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but Alan Lorette lyne Um, how about Honey,
Speaker 1: Patty Loveless, Carrie Underwood, Well, yeah that's pretty Uh. I've
Speaker 1: worked to carry for thirteen years since she came up Idle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's awesome. I worked with Rascal Flats for thirteen years
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of how can I forget Brad Paisley,
Speaker 1: I've done like Gwyneth Palcher. It was Olivia John. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, Olivia John, like she was Grace is my
Speaker 1: favorite lady. I watched reesely at least she goes everywhere
Speaker 1: to I know, I know the whole movie. But they
Speaker 1: called me, like, what was it two years ago and said,
Speaker 1: Heylimia John needs to made her hair and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I said, because if I do
Speaker 1: it and it disappoints me, it's gonna scar me. You know,
Speaker 1: they say never meet your heroes, because I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be like, we're recording. Oh the camera shot right now,
Speaker 1: we're recorded. I thought you were doing a podcast. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: let's show you guys. Is that you Oh my gosh, here,
Speaker 1: let's do a little closer. This is on her. Oh
Speaker 1: that's embarrassing. That's around. That's around when she started doing
Speaker 1: her hair and makeup. That's that's amazing. Yes, you were,
Speaker 1: you were just a little bit. Carrie was more of
Speaker 1: her generation, right, yes, not ours. And when Carrie came
Speaker 1: to town, Melissa got the call to go do her
Speaker 1: and Hunter was emouraging Melissa to go do right because
Speaker 1: I didn't know any who else off of American idols.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do it. Hunter was encouraging Melissa. She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the world that I want, American idol. You've
Speaker 1: gotta do her mom. You know, it's so pretty crazy
Speaker 1: how that whole thing. So look look at you guys
Speaker 1: helping each other out with it. You know what Parlor
Speaker 1: three is though, too, you're just saying what Parlor three is?
Speaker 1: Last three? Stop big, because y'all are the three best
Speaker 1: friends that ever were. You guys are like the parlor
Speaker 1: three of us another father daughter? Do Is that really truly?
Speaker 1: All just like the best of friends that ever were?
Speaker 1: Growing up? Yeah? I mean, I mean there was like
Speaker 1: teenage year they didn't talk for like her parents who
Speaker 1: were friends, but it changed. I was pretty good, No,
Speaker 1: she was a good. She was good a couple of
Speaker 1: nights seeking out. That would always be when I was
Speaker 1: gone out of town because he would go to bed
Speaker 1: and she'd sleep people in and out. And that platform
Speaker 1: right over there they would hide under here and duo
Speaker 1: but okay down there and they were like, yeah, there'd
Speaker 1: be boys all down under the platform off oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: but it's always when I was gone because she couldn't
Speaker 1: get away with it. Little. I'm gonna tell this story
Speaker 1: because it's really funny. Now. There was one time when
Speaker 1: we had sent boys in and I heard my dad
Speaker 1: like coming down the hall and I through the covers
Speaker 1: of my boyfriend at the time, and he actually I
Speaker 1: was sleeping and he goes, good night Hunter, good night.
Speaker 1: Caitlin like tap us on the back and thought it
Speaker 1: was my friend and he never knew. I was mostly
Speaker 1: a good you really were you were. She was a
Speaker 1: good Middle school was more of her like middle school,
Speaker 1: that's when you were sleeking out, going to the skate drink.
Speaker 1: Then you met Cameron camera. Thank you. Honestly, it's great
Speaker 1: you and I do get hooked up with one great
Speaker 1: guy and you stick with him and period. I used
Speaker 1: to that kind of thing people who had boyfriends in
Speaker 1: high school and junior high was kind of dumb because
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're not eating today, But really, if you
Speaker 1: can skip those years and to be with a good
Speaker 1: pra before camera, we'd be like this, please, no parlor three?
Speaker 1: What is the parlor part? Because you just always just
Speaker 1: love um parlor. I just always love like vintage stuff.
Speaker 1: Remember when we're I had it named a different name
Speaker 1: and she told me, so that's where Hunter comes in,
Speaker 1: and she'll go, no, it's so embarrassing. I don't even
Speaker 1: want to say it was behind the scenes, behind the
Speaker 1: scenes beauty. I was like, oh, it was bad, but
Speaker 1: I had a name something quick, and I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: what could it be the perfect example of when she's
Speaker 1: just they had the LC, we had it all and
Speaker 1: she's like no, and I was like, it'll be worth
Speaker 1: it my day. So we had to pay another Pickeen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to get something else and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: but it was worth it to worth it parably. Three
Speaker 1: is such a classy to it. Well, she like loved
Speaker 1: all the vintage inspired beauty parlors. That's what I like
Speaker 1: a beauty parlor from Yeah, and Sharon, actually Sharon, we're
Speaker 1: all at the pool that her sister, sister in law.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, So Parlison was meant to be. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you decide you're going to do this just on
Speaker 1: a wind basically because you've been doing all the celebrity clientele,
Speaker 1: you're traveling around and it was just a makeup store. Remember,
Speaker 1: and you're just doing are you doing hair or just makeup?
Speaker 1: At this point, I just do hair makeup. On the road,
Speaker 1: you don't hear makeup. And I was like, oh, would
Speaker 1: be cool to have a makeup store in Britwood. Brima
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything. And then when I went to Land,
Speaker 1: I was like, we have all this space downstairs and
Speaker 1: it was scary. This is where you know. It was
Speaker 1: like when I took everybody by, I took Hunter, Dawn
Speaker 1: carry friends. They were all like, we're not coming here.
Speaker 1: It was so bad. And the floor in the top
Speaker 1: you could see down from down from where you sit downstairs.
Speaker 1: You gonna do some major innovation. This seems like an
Speaker 1: undertaking major. I would go on the road and come
Speaker 1: back and stay there to like five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'd be coming in with my material designer. Don will
Speaker 1: be asleep and we'd be pulling things off my bedroom wall.
Speaker 1: I don't I just sleep, but I just coffee and
Speaker 1: pizza rolls and the milk chicks. I like this. I
Speaker 1: like your I mean, don't worry about its every day,
Speaker 1: live your life, and it just makes sense just to
Speaker 1: stick with it. Right there, you got me like she
Speaker 1: does take me back a few bits. I mean I
Speaker 1: almost was gonna open another salon not long ago, and
Speaker 1: her and Dollar like, it's not it's not right. I
Speaker 1: got a lot and there's a lot coming. I got
Speaker 1: a lot going on, and then I got other things
Speaker 1: in the works, and it's like I just need to start.
Speaker 1: You don't want over. I can't work it when and
Speaker 1: I have We have Hunter Page and Barbershop, so you
Speaker 1: have two other salons, barbershops, boys, Hunter Pages. Hunter Pages
Speaker 1: the primary, but that's it's a bridle. But it's also
Speaker 1: a full service salon. So like Haley and all them
Speaker 1: that used to assist Marissa, they all have are there
Speaker 1: now and they have a full clientail. It's pretty all
Speaker 1: during the week weekend. It's like more of like a bridal. Sweet,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And then I have a partner. I do
Speaker 1: have a partner at Hunter Tree. Name is Beth and
Speaker 1: her and she's a barber at my barbershop. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Cameron manages barber three. I want to
Speaker 1: be connected. This is what the dream is like when
Speaker 1: you're growing up, Like I feel like it's a mom
Speaker 1: or daughter. You just would pray that you can have
Speaker 1: this kind of relationship and interaction, the way that you
Speaker 1: guys are your own people but are so connected that
Speaker 1: has to be a blasts like embarrass or sometimes well sometimes,
Speaker 1: um what I was gonna say, how you guys are
Speaker 1: all besties. You're saying and it's really fun because now
Speaker 1: we're gonna start working on like we've been saying for
Speaker 1: a while. But it's hard to get both of us
Speaker 1: and you down at the same time. But like some
Speaker 1: YouTube videos and like really start to like combine and
Speaker 1: then their beauty room when I get finished, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: makes pretty much. It's so tell me what you guys,
Speaker 1: y'all can go off each other. Someone who's wanting to
Speaker 1: get into this world, like even like your world of
Speaker 1: like beauty, fashion and makeup all that, like spreading the words,
Speaker 1: starting something doing it. What are your tips to someone
Speaker 1: who wants to become an influencer, whether it's like starting blog,
Speaker 1: start a YouTube page, growing a business, like what are
Speaker 1: the what's the advice you would get I would give
Speaker 1: my tips of if somebody's want to do hair makeup.
Speaker 1: I tell this to everybody, Now get your license because
Speaker 1: there is a lot of which is fine there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that do hair makeup, but they're cracking down.
Speaker 1: It's like, get your license. I do hair and makeup,
Speaker 1: And it's really great because that you can do both
Speaker 1: with your life and then you can do I last extense,
Speaker 1: you can do everything, so you're always there. Like if
Speaker 1: I ever stopped doing here, make you could do hair
Speaker 1: in this one, you know, And it's kind of that.
Speaker 1: I've always had that and I really like that and
Speaker 1: just don't give up and do things for free. And
Speaker 1: I did a lot of stuff for free back in
Speaker 1: the day, and I mean I worked hard. So you like,
Speaker 1: when you're getting started, you suggest offering your services to
Speaker 1: people that you want to get involved in this kind
Speaker 1: of commune or have these people notice you do test
Speaker 1: shoots with people say come see out what my works like,
Speaker 1: and then it's it's natural, such a great community. And
Speaker 1: then they're like, oh, well, I don't need to tell
Speaker 1: my friend about her or whatever because it's what and
Speaker 1: that's how it did for me. And it's easier these
Speaker 1: days almost because yeah, social media and truly and like
Speaker 1: now you can exchange for posts be like, oh do
Speaker 1: your free stuff. I will say, though in my career
Speaker 1: though I will say, like a lot of I don't
Speaker 1: work with anybody else except carry anymore and Alan that's
Speaker 1: very rare. But I suggest getting license because freelance is
Speaker 1: very sporadic, absolutely sporadic. And if it's you've got that
Speaker 1: to fall back on. I mean, freelance could be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you got one job and then you have twenty next month.
Speaker 1: It's just falls, you know what I mean, You just
Speaker 1: never know. It's not consistent. So you say, get your license?
Speaker 1: How do you how do you encourage people to stand out?
Speaker 1: Because Hunter, you're saying with like your block, it's very
Speaker 1: attempting to want to see what other people are doing,
Speaker 1: who they're collaborating with, or what's working for someone else
Speaker 1: in a blog. But you're saying stay true to yourself.
Speaker 1: How do you say true to yourself in this in
Speaker 1: this field, do you need to go out and go
Speaker 1: around Nashville and meet people? Especially this say Timolay is
Speaker 1: the best way. I just go out. And so remember
Speaker 1: back in the day, Instagram and all that way wasn't
Speaker 1: around when I was here, Like like it wasn't Beeper.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a cell phone page to me, um,
Speaker 1: But gon't just meet people and that's nashural so like
Speaker 1: community and they're so awesome, Like go meet a photographer
Speaker 1: and go say hey, let's do a touch you together.
Speaker 1: That's where you're going to meet people and do stuff.
Speaker 1: And that's just blogging modeling, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: want to do celebrities. I got in at the right time. Yes,
Speaker 1: back in the day, they took you everywhere. Now they
Speaker 1: have a tour, they have one in every city because
Speaker 1: it is expensive to travel people, But you know, just
Speaker 1: go for it totally like playing practice, like practice on
Speaker 1: your friends, practice on everything, and then right, don't be
Speaker 1: scared to about your blog. Actually watched your answer stories
Speaker 1: once when you were and you were talking about someone
Speaker 1: who wants to get into blog and you're like, I
Speaker 1: just suggested anyone who wants to do this just start,
Speaker 1: which i'd started mind three years before I did, because
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna be mistakes, so just start making up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's kind of similar to what you're saying with blogging,
Speaker 1: like you're going to get out of it what you
Speaker 1: put into it. Like I probably didn't take my blog
Speaker 1: like very very seriously as a full time job until
Speaker 1: about after the wedding, So like six months ago, I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing big results seen in the past six
Speaker 1: months have been absolutely amazing because I went cam lasting
Speaker 1: me because like the second I wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: I'm on my laptop because I've hard work. I mean
Speaker 1: they work all the time. You work for yourself. I
Speaker 1: mean you have to be the one motivated. You're gonna
Speaker 1: yourself work sometimes work from the second I wake up.
Speaker 1: You know, it might go shoot during the day and
Speaker 1: then I'm right to it, Like, because people don't realize
Speaker 1: that for every one collaboration, there's probably thirty emails back
Speaker 1: and forth in negotiating the finding the right brands, and
Speaker 1: people just really don't It looks like a lot of
Speaker 1: pretty pictures and a lot of fun, which is a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, and I'm so thankful that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm able to pursue this career, but it's a lot
Speaker 1: of work behind the scene. So what have you changed
Speaker 1: in the last six months that has really made your
Speaker 1: blog explode? Like how have you mentally changed? And then
Speaker 1: what have you actually action steps changed? So when I
Speaker 1: first started, it was more just like me waiting for
Speaker 1: companies to reach and reach out to me, and then
Speaker 1: for every company that did. Every ten companies that did,
Speaker 1: maybe two were a good fit. So I just wasn't
Speaker 1: hitting as many collaborations. And you know, I was still
Speaker 1: working when you asked the other way to um make money,
Speaker 1: it's like affiliate links. So I'm still working on shops
Speaker 1: down and reward style. So I'm making commission on bas
Speaker 1: that I'm promoting. But I wasn't getting a ton of
Speaker 1: brand deals. And then these past six months, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just go through my daily routine and routine or
Speaker 1: if I see an awesome new local company in Nashville
Speaker 1: that I want to team up with. So I'm just
Speaker 1: like actively pursuing these brands and they're just waiting for
Speaker 1: everyone come to me. What I like about her though,
Speaker 1: I do like it be true to yourself, but don't
Speaker 1: just do a company just because they're gonna pay you.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of her for that because she's turned down
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: good for you because you don't do that stuff and
Speaker 1: like stay with it. And that's gonna be a flashing
Speaker 1: and ant if you say yes to every money deal
Speaker 1: but it's not matching, your followers are gonna because it's
Speaker 1: not real, it's not. I mean, I don't have that
Speaker 1: many followers to spare to a lot of people, but
Speaker 1: my audience is just very loyal and trust They trust
Speaker 1: me because I've stayed true to myself. Like I've never
Speaker 1: done one collaboration that didn't match who you are. And
Speaker 1: I like that about you because You're not gonna go
Speaker 1: where like something that's not that's not your style because
Speaker 1: and I love that. I think I like that so true,
Speaker 1: and I feel like there might have been a moment
Speaker 1: in time where everyone kind of got lost with the
Speaker 1: social media world and like how to do it? But
Speaker 1: now it's starting to seat talking more about you know,
Speaker 1: their issues, and people are using that just like you
Speaker 1: talking about your what happened with you? And I love that.
Speaker 1: Can can we touch on that just a little because
Speaker 1: another that you've been very I'm proud of her for
Speaker 1: not and this you shared about your eating struggles. How
Speaker 1: did you decide to do that and share that because
Speaker 1: that is something so many people need to hear. So
Speaker 1: I shared it last year and it was one of
Speaker 1: the things you asked me and Cameron and Dad in
Speaker 1: a weird place kind of how you set with my
Speaker 1: blog just like everyone, I was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: same things, and I was just like, what do I like?
Speaker 1: This does a feel fulfilling? That's kind of how I felt.
Speaker 1: And that was another thing that made me kind of
Speaker 1: six months ago, I was like, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling fulfilled. I'm going to take this thing seriously and
Speaker 1: put my whole heart into it. Um So about a
Speaker 1: year ago, I just was like kind of feeling that way,
Speaker 1: and I just decided, you know, if this helps. I
Speaker 1: didn't expect the reaction that I got at all, And
Speaker 1: I got a messages for moms and dads and like
Speaker 1: both men and women who are currently struggling, and how
Speaker 1: did you heal yourself? What was the moment when you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't, this isn't I don't want to be like
Speaker 1: this anymore. I want to get healthy. I think it was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even I wouldn't even admit that I had
Speaker 1: a problem until like after I was healthy. So I
Speaker 1: was just like, I wasn't at all. She pushed everyway
Speaker 1: away at that time, totally. Probably the threads of high school,
Speaker 1: the most private school and now the girls are mean.
Speaker 1: But I decided to post about it because I felt
Speaker 1: this way, and I can't be the only person who
Speaker 1: felt this way and if I am then and it's terrifying.
Speaker 1: I struggled also like you, and I didn't post about
Speaker 1: it until after. I feel like I got healthy too,
Speaker 1: and it's much easier to talking about it. And and
Speaker 1: I never really feel like I was like everybody has
Speaker 1: these issues, that everyone does this stuff, you know, like
Speaker 1: you kaind of, but really it is so embarrassing and
Speaker 1: nerve wracking and scary. Not it's not embarrassing. I was
Speaker 1: embarrass out until I posted. And then she mustn't you
Speaker 1: almost feel I think she was so much relief, like
Speaker 1: after and you talk about it now, and it's great
Speaker 1: for these girls like you to talk about you to
Speaker 1: talk about it, trying to be sensitive to like the
Speaker 1: people that are still struggling with them and like let
Speaker 1: them know that it's okay. And like you said, there's
Speaker 1: so many layers of it. It's easy to obviously when
Speaker 1: you're not going through anymore. So I I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: totally comfortable talking about it now, but I recognize that
Speaker 1: not everyone at that point. That's such a good point
Speaker 1: because you're you're healed and through it and really like
Speaker 1: you were saying to you can justify it because you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't even have this isn't a problem. It's so
Speaker 1: easy to just like justify it or not think it's
Speaker 1: something from the other side of it. Yes, but I
Speaker 1: mean the reaction last year and then I just kind
Speaker 1: of reach shared. A lot of your new followers didn't
Speaker 1: know about it either. Was it hard, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, it really wasn't too I thought it
Speaker 1: would be harder than it was. Like, once that shared,
Speaker 1: I was, it felt good. And just to get the message.
Speaker 1: I got messages from Dad's and Don got messages from
Speaker 1: his friend, like his daughter just like that is so
Speaker 1: amazing that, like, you know, my daughter's struggling recognizing those signs.
Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing awareness to my family, you know,
Speaker 1: just things like that. And it was really hard. This
Speaker 1: one was I was in Pho. The reason I re
Speaker 1: shared it this year was I was in Phoenix, UM,
Speaker 1: shopping and this lady camps me. She's like, I know
Speaker 1: you from somewhere. I know, oh, I'm not from here, UM,
Speaker 1: and we just kind of parted ways, and then she
Speaker 1: came back up to me. When she left, she was
Speaker 1: like it finally hit me, and I think it was
Speaker 1: her sister. Her sister shared my post with her while
Speaker 1: her daughter was struggling, and she said to her daughter
Speaker 1: and she said, you help my daughter more than you know,
Speaker 1: really health times. And that's and that's in Phoenix, and
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, in Phoenix, Aarizon. I've ever been there
Speaker 1: in my life. So that the power of social media
Speaker 1: and in a good way. And I do feel like
Speaker 1: what we were touching on earlier, it is changing. There
Speaker 1: is still so much comparison and so much horrible downside
Speaker 1: to the social media world. But then there's also another
Speaker 1: side that you would have never been able to affect
Speaker 1: someone in Phoenix, Arizona if it wasn't for Instagram. And
Speaker 1: so that is why I feel like people are looking
Speaker 1: to influencers who are willing to be honest, you know,
Speaker 1: and who I like to follow. So I sometimes just like, revaluate, evaluate,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, who like yours and Sarah's your
Speaker 1: stories about going to look like I love that and
Speaker 1: that inspires me to be more you know, vocal about
Speaker 1: different things and just read a little bit more love.
Speaker 1: I was talking up. We're talking about friend Sara Davison
Speaker 1: talking to her like, sometimes you feel like you're showing
Speaker 1: off or your bragging posting, but I was thinking, like
Speaker 1: when we were like posting about like doing charity work
Speaker 1: and stuff, I was thinking like, no, actually we should
Speaker 1: post about doing these things. Posting about clothes and fashion,
Speaker 1: which is like it's it's just a positive influence on
Speaker 1: the world because that's my style is great, but we
Speaker 1: should also be making people want to do these other things.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way about Best Buddies, Like best
Speaker 1: Buddiest organization I've been involved with since long time high school,
Speaker 1: and I started the Best Buddies chapter at All miss
Speaker 1: and it's like a huge part of my life. But
Speaker 1: I never want people like when I do stories with
Speaker 1: me and brit and I'm like, I hope people don't
Speaker 1: think that you're just doing that to that's she's been
Speaker 1: around people, so Honter, I'm gonna give a little quick
Speaker 1: about Hunter. People. I don't know this, but when she
Speaker 1: was little, my mom works with people's disabilities my whole life.
Speaker 1: So when Hunter we would go to conferences Hunter was
Speaker 1: in elementary school, she would go sit with people disabilities,
Speaker 1: not her friends, just because that's just her and so
Speaker 1: it got to where she changed that elementary because most
Speaker 1: kids didn't want to be around them. So if they
Speaker 1: did something, they all wanted to sit with the kids.
Speaker 1: Because Hunter was doing it in elementary, member started she
Speaker 1: started to be cool. So if they did something really well,
Speaker 1: they get to go sit with the kids with disabilities.
Speaker 1: If you read books like and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Always been. She's just and she's an old soul.
Speaker 1: She's just like a good and I think that that
Speaker 1: is so great to use your platform and to show
Speaker 1: that that's a part of you. And you know, peters
Speaker 1: want to hate him because exactly because they're using it
Speaker 1: are good. You want to encourage people like people love
Speaker 1: you like this is also a part of me. So
Speaker 1: do this these kind of things too. And every single
Speaker 1: time I post Brittany, I'm reminded because someone's like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, how do I get involved? Like this is
Speaker 1: so sweet and it always has the best buddy they have,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, but I totally agree that social media
Speaker 1: can be a positive thing and this influence the world.
Speaker 1: So break down how you guys do then your world?
Speaker 1: Like what is it? What is an influencer? How I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty incredible. I'm not good at like people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, what was that to use? I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was just something. I should be better about it
Speaker 1: because I didn't make up but I really don't even
Speaker 1: know it. And I'm like oh, and I'm like i'll
Speaker 1: post something. I'm like everybody want I'll get all these
Speaker 1: mess and I'm like oh, and like you all say,
Speaker 1: you just started painting one day and now you have
Speaker 1: like that's not mine. So this was my inspiration though,
Speaker 1: this is the painting that made me want to paint.
Speaker 1: But like Hunter and saying listen, just wakes up and
Speaker 1: do something. One name was is like oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and now you're selling all these pieces of art for
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Who are you? Well, I go
Speaker 1: to Ze gallery or whatever. They're like a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'll make it more affordable for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, campuses are kind of expensive too. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: but when I did that, it was for bat drops
Speaker 1: for the salon. That's all I was doing through social
Speaker 1: media and I was like, mom, we need better bat
Speaker 1: drop pictures and she oh, let me see, and then
Speaker 1: my mom and then I posted on Instagram and I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you made me one of those. I'll buy it, and
Speaker 1: then then me a mom go to Michael's sale. It
Speaker 1: was seventy percent off camas. I think I bought like
Speaker 1: sixty camuses. And my husband they know me at Michael's
Speaker 1: when it's just seventy percent off day, I'm like Melissa,
Speaker 1: They're like, come, my truck's out back. The love a
Speaker 1: good sale. I think it's really awesome though, being able
Speaker 1: to do this through Instagram and stuff like yes, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with the Instagram shuts down on it.
Speaker 1: That's why I tried to really focus, like put most
Speaker 1: of my in the past six months. That's what I've
Speaker 1: learned to do was just like put because I can
Speaker 1: pass full control over my blog and I'll always have it.
Speaker 1: It's just like focus my page views and like directing
Speaker 1: people to my blog. Um, so you like to put
Speaker 1: all your content through your blog except for like your
Speaker 1: like to know it posts or whatever, You'll do that
Speaker 1: on Instagram and then everything else. How often do you blog?
Speaker 1: I usually am for one week, but some last week,
Speaker 1: and like I would ideally like to do more than that,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to do a blog and there's a
Speaker 1: lot I like her stuff because she loves history a hunter.
Speaker 1: She like what I don't want to do with Like
Speaker 1: when I post an I got tired of posting outfits
Speaker 1: and be like I paid this with this and it,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of basic things. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, when Gamer and I are outshooting,
Speaker 1: which usually before we're going to dinner, before we're going
Speaker 1: talking about the history of what you're going not just
Speaker 1: the history, but like yesterday I posted an outfit where
Speaker 1: we shot in Germantown, so I just talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about our favorite restaurants in Germantown. Um, like the
Speaker 1: history of Germantown is a neighborhood kinds so like to
Speaker 1: where it bores people because I know if it just
Speaker 1: gives histories much as I do. But I just try
Speaker 1: to use like my journals and background a little more
Speaker 1: and just like intertwine that. I love that. So that's
Speaker 1: what makes yours more you also, so you're adding this
Speaker 1: element of expressing more of yourself than just your style
Speaker 1: of travels. I try to just kind of like get
Speaker 1: a little like when we go to Charleston already been
Speaker 1: doing a ton of research on like the X story
Speaker 1: of Charleston, and I try to pictures in areas that
Speaker 1: you like the history and I recognize it not everyone
Speaker 1: loves it, but I just try to give like a
Speaker 1: little more information. It doesn't always have to be history,
Speaker 1: but just a little something instead of just the outfite outfit.
Speaker 1: I love that, Okay, Hunter, tell me three three words
Speaker 1: to describe your mom. Oh god, you've got one. The
Speaker 1: other day you told me that I didn't even know about.
Speaker 1: She didn't know what extra meant. I love that, But
Speaker 1: I don't mean an extra in a bad way, Like
Speaker 1: she just loves like bling and she loves glitter, like
Speaker 1: extra extra. Actually, it's just sort of your personality because
Speaker 1: you're not even trying to be extra. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be You're so extra, Like I'm like, you just
Speaker 1: like something trying her And I'm like, I'm I'm like,
Speaker 1: is that bad? No? But it's so you're so right
Speaker 1: because you're so like just naturally you just have all
Speaker 1: of this stuff that's so fabulous around you because that's
Speaker 1: just who you are. I'm just real. I mean, like
Speaker 1: I mean, I am. I don't care like people like
Speaker 1: why did you tell you that person you've got that trip.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care. That's I've done that my
Speaker 1: whole life. I'm like, if I find a deal, I
Speaker 1: love to talk about it. And yes, I mean it's
Speaker 1: not the deal she buys. Yesterday she found on a
Speaker 1: beach back at for twenty one for nine dollars. I
Speaker 1: won't get one freeze, No, no, I did tan because
Speaker 1: it was one free free by next word. She's very giving,
Speaker 1: like I do get yeah. Yeah. She just loves to give,
Speaker 1: like even like her knowledge, like to her stylist and giving.
Speaker 1: That's probably why you're flourishing so much, because I love
Speaker 1: to see other people flourished that like I love women
Speaker 1: and this and doing like when my stylo when I like,
Speaker 1: I'll see their paycheck and I'll just go up to
Speaker 1: one and one go, oh my gosh, I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of because it's like, you know, we were at our
Speaker 1: Christmas party not long ago and it made me go.
Speaker 1: A few people husbands came up to me of my
Speaker 1: staff and they're like, do you realize you pay all
Speaker 1: these people's bills. I was like, I've never thought of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just it made me very happy and
Speaker 1: I love to see I don't like people knocking somebody
Speaker 1: else down. I love to lift people up. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, if if I don't like people that put
Speaker 1: people down either, it's like if you do that, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be around. You know, And it starts
Speaker 1: from the top down. I really do believe that who
Speaker 1: like who what, whoever is in charge, it all trickles down.
Speaker 1: So if you are promoting an atmosphere of support of
Speaker 1: everyone working hard and joining together, then that's that just step.
Speaker 1: I get messages. I got random messages when we had
Speaker 1: a staff meeting. I don't go to my staff meetings
Speaker 1: because I don't want to hear anything like I'm about
Speaker 1: you got it? Um? But I have a manager that
Speaker 1: handles all my businesses and she like I can go
Speaker 1: and not have to worry about you, Sara that she's incredible,
Speaker 1: but people that hired people, I mean, she looks at
Speaker 1: my salon is like all my stuff look at is
Speaker 1: like it's there's two and we're not. I'm not the owner.
Speaker 1: We're partners. My styles were partners, like we're in this together.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to do you have a great salon
Speaker 1: that always surprised how much she's actually at the businesses
Speaker 1: because she's so busy. If I'm not on the road,
Speaker 1: I'm at the salon. I mean, you know, I've just
Speaker 1: seen there. Like I'm like, and I go. I love
Speaker 1: to go around and talk to all the clients and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm like, if I come, say hi to me if
Speaker 1: I'm there. I love that your hands with it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we got extra we got giving last one. Wow.
Speaker 1: She's very quiet and I'm very loud. If you ever know,
Speaker 1: like I'm bunky, Like that's all encompassing, maybe spunky. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I think about. Okay, she's very loving.
Speaker 1: That's kind of thing giving, just like good, what's what's
Speaker 1: that like? Spontaneous that's the worst. That's what I was
Speaker 1: looking for. I love that in all areas of life.
Speaker 1: That's um birthday party that we just planned. Planned that
Speaker 1: birthday was almost like he's like a big like I'm
Speaker 1: not fifty by the way, he was sift, So this
Speaker 1: is like a big one. Before She's like, you were
Speaker 1: having a party shot plane and I'm like this weekend,
Speaker 1: I'm like, she did it. I did park, I got it.
Speaker 1: Want to I start of operate like that, like I
Speaker 1: never planned anything out, like and when I launched everything
Speaker 1: I've ever launched, I've just pretty much done it from
Speaker 1: one day to the next because I don't know how
Speaker 1: to plan for things, like I don't even know I
Speaker 1: never know what I'm doing something like if I can
Speaker 1: get any lead, I'm like, I gotta go just the
Speaker 1: way different people. You're on top of road steps five.
Speaker 1: But she likes to be just three words to describe Hunter, Um,
Speaker 1: your did you say loyal for me? No? Hunter is
Speaker 1: very loyal to a fault sometimes, but you were very
Speaker 1: loyal to your friends and very I don't know, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You're very loyal to people, to
Speaker 1: your people. Once you're in your your very you're very loving.
Speaker 1: She's very quiet, but I feel like once you but
Speaker 1: once you get comfortable though, I feel like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: She totally like yeah, I would say more reserved, like
Speaker 1: I'm you're not just gonna put it all out the
Speaker 1: right away. Yeah, like a pit could choose who I
Speaker 1: let into my life. I guess you would. That's true,
Speaker 1: which is interesting in the whole influence of the world,
Speaker 1: because I want to be you know, personal on my
Speaker 1: Instagram stories and things like that, But I also want
Speaker 1: to be myself and being all loud and spunky and
Speaker 1: you know how it's not me and her people meet
Speaker 1: me in person to be like, oh, you're exactly how
Speaker 1: you portray yourself. I would stay encouraging. It is another
Speaker 1: word for her because she encourages me. We encourage each other,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, but you encourage other people tell you
Speaker 1: with their dreams and stuff like Cookie or anybody or
Speaker 1: I just think there's room, especially in the whole influence
Speaker 1: the world, there's room for everyone if you're yourself, Like totally,
Speaker 1: there's not room everyone if you're going to be just
Speaker 1: like everyone else. But if you are unique and you
Speaker 1: speak yourself story so true, I love that. And I
Speaker 1: just I love that you guys are all about spreading
Speaker 1: positive vibes and encouraging everyone to do what their hearts
Speaker 1: want them to do. That shows that you guys are
Speaker 1: so confident with your own lives, you know, because I
Speaker 1: feel like people who can really root others on it's
Speaker 1: because they fill fulfilled in their absolutely And I'm like
Speaker 1: people who are tearing others down as because they's like
Speaker 1: they don't have enough or they've like gonna get ahead
Speaker 1: of them, you know, And so to see you guys
Speaker 1: just radiating this much love to the world and the
Speaker 1: communities that you're involved with is really inspiring. Thank you,
Speaker 1: and I mean that's why you are flourishing. You are
Speaker 1: who I love. But I love to watch your inst
Speaker 1: stories and stuff. You're You're so awesome. Happened to im
Speaker 1: like an idiot, like talking about I love listening to you.
Speaker 1: My old sister Davisler than the last night, but she's
Speaker 1: not even really into that, like cold bloggirl, And then
Speaker 1: she was like, and we told her we're doing this
Speaker 1: podcast with you, and she's like, I love her Instagram
Speaker 1: Tyler my sister. Yeah, she loves you guys. But you're
Speaker 1: you're very encouraging too. You're very like positive like Sarah.
Speaker 1: We're like you and her mommy a lot of each other.
Speaker 1: We really relate. And I love that because you've talked
Speaker 1: about that too. Every time there you are uplifting to
Speaker 1: other people. It's not about that what it's very It's
Speaker 1: just it's great you went to a dinner was there
Speaker 1: no longer? And you're like, I love joy so like
Speaker 1: uplifted and that's good to feel. Well. I think it's
Speaker 1: because I have not been in the entertainment music business
Speaker 1: for almost thirteen years, and I have seen it from
Speaker 1: every different angle. I have seen what happens when you're
Speaker 1: negative and you try to hoard all this success in
Speaker 1: yourself and you don't share it. You know, you just
Speaker 1: see it all play out, and you also know how
Speaker 1: it feels like. It does not feel good to have
Speaker 1: negativity around. I feel like I have a disease feeling negativity.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, if everyone can just switch to the
Speaker 1: positive and try the positive for like, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta commit to it, you gotta retrain your right, you
Speaker 1: gotta retraine. What's such a better life? Yeah, because you've
Speaker 1: seen the life. You see the world through a happy
Speaker 1: lens instead of a negative lens, which it's obvitually I
Speaker 1: don't want to be happy. Yeah, And that's I think
Speaker 1: Natural has such a cool, like inclusive community and not
Speaker 1: just like our friends and people we know, Like I
Speaker 1: just went to it another day and it was like
Speaker 1: a whole another group of you know, influencers, creatives i't met,
Speaker 1: and everyone was so just like welcoming to what I'm
Speaker 1: doing and how we could work together and how how
Speaker 1: can you collaborate because they feel good about themselves too.
Speaker 1: I think it's when you go to where you need
Speaker 1: to go up and talk to people, like not when
Speaker 1: you're an advance and stuff, don't meet everyone, Like don't
Speaker 1: just sit back and just kind of like don't meet everything.
Speaker 1: They may have a story, it's gonna be really cool.
Speaker 1: You could do something together and assume that people want
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I think that's like so many
Speaker 1: people assume everyone is thinking about them and hate them
Speaker 1: for no reason. Absolutely, so everyone loves you because asking
Speaker 1: sometimes like how do I because I mean we do
Speaker 1: have like a you know, a friend group of people
Speaker 1: that we kind of hang out with, Like how do
Speaker 1: I get involved? Like or how do I get invited
Speaker 1: to things? And like just meet people like you're also welcoming. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what I love. It feels so easy, like
Speaker 1: I never feel and there's all sorts of stuff happening,
Speaker 1: and you know you're not gonna do everything or know
Speaker 1: about everything or being invited to everything, not because of anything.
Speaker 1: There's just so much going on. I didn't even meet
Speaker 1: you a few months ago, and it was just so easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing, Like once you meet though, everyone's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love you, Like, let's exactly what
Speaker 1: you said. Figuret how we can work together, help each
Speaker 1: other and it's just no pressure. If you're being authentic,
Speaker 1: being yourself and having positivity. I think those are the
Speaker 1: key things. Totally totally agree. I guys thought her something
Speaker 1: funny about you. She may not know, so Hunter counts them?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? So sometimes the fun facts about Hunter?
Speaker 1: So Hunter sometimes if she's talking to you, it may
Speaker 1: not look like she's paying attention to you, but she's
Speaker 1: counting the letters. The letters like what are you rain man?
Speaker 1: She really okay? So like when she was little she
Speaker 1: was very like intelligent, so she's still inte but she
Speaker 1: was in all the like gifted programs and all that.
Speaker 1: But Hunter might be on the slight version of kind.
Speaker 1: I mean they literally told me it was on this
Speaker 1: section of Baltism. But you know, um, so me some
Speaker 1: give her words words um rock Sam, so you just know,
Speaker 1: like you just give her word and I mean she
Speaker 1: doesn't even she's not even counting. Okay, make up six,
Speaker 1: um Rosie gives you something um uh oh gosh, no,
Speaker 1: I know, word platinum. It's weird when she drinks, it's
Speaker 1: even better. How do you know? How many did you
Speaker 1: see it? In your head? Is so I'm not going
Speaker 1: with numbers. It's like she's starved with masks, words and
Speaker 1: letter But that also means you have to get a
Speaker 1: spelling because you have to have a smell. That's that
Speaker 1: she doesn't have to spell it. So when you see
Speaker 1: like you already drink about it or are you just
Speaker 1: doing I don't know. She can't explain, Like if we're
Speaker 1: just talking right now, are you counting everyone I'm saying
Speaker 1: right now back my head, I don't It isn't distract me.
Speaker 1: But how exhausting your brain is working all the time.
Speaker 1: Like that's just like it's sometimes but people sometimes they
Speaker 1: think Hunter is not paying attention. But she's having word
Speaker 1: that I've seen a lot, or like your name, like
Speaker 1: I know it's thirteen off off my head because I've
Speaker 1: seen it, like here Hobbe thirteen. But like so I
Speaker 1: don't think, I don't know how that's really weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird, weird, little like quirk. I don't know. So
Speaker 1: you're thinking about all this other stuff and then meanwhile
Speaker 1: you just got this back this mac wheel spinning just
Speaker 1: counting it. It doesn't really distract me. It's just like
Speaker 1: I don't realize that sub conscious and then with it
Speaker 1: day or something or is it just a Thing's the
Speaker 1: reason I figured out I could do it when I
Speaker 1: was a cheer. It's a good party drinking and it's
Speaker 1: just fun. I was like, how many letters? Because we
Speaker 1: were trying to have a center off the side, how
Speaker 1: many letters and go cougars? I was like no, I
Speaker 1: was like, how did you know that? I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I just realized I do it
Speaker 1: all the time that I would never guess that in
Speaker 1: one million years. And it's interesting. What's the fun fact
Speaker 1: about you? I don't know what is it? What's what's
Speaker 1: a fun fact about me? Don't always kind up? I
Speaker 1: don't know what you think A lot of you can
Speaker 1: wrap a lot of old school wrap. No, I kind
Speaker 1: of have the music I have. No, I'm toned, like
Speaker 1: I cannot think, which makes you rapping even better? Like
Speaker 1: I'm I gotta be really like a little juice in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah we're good. Yeah, but it's like it's not like
Speaker 1: good rap. This is like old school dirty rap. I
Speaker 1: want to be when I grow up, like you like,
Speaker 1: how this is the coolest mom in the world. Can
Speaker 1: you believe she's your mom? Well? The cool I mean,
Speaker 1: but people can't remember tape this is my daughter tape
Speaker 1: we still have. You know, we're like best buddies, so
Speaker 1: like mom's mom. You know, I think we thought about
Speaker 1: the most growing up. We share everything, like close makeup,
Speaker 1: just those this morning. I'll know you all are the
Speaker 1: dream team. I just have keep saying that this is
Speaker 1: a dream um. But we used to fight about that
Speaker 1: a lot, especially when I was in college, because to
Speaker 1: take herself and then her friends would have I'm like,
Speaker 1: where did my stuff go? And we were the same
Speaker 1: slash shoes, same side jeans week, where were the same clothes?
Speaker 1: And it's like when she went back to clock, it
Speaker 1: would call her aren't like how did you take every
Speaker 1: single piece of my shoes with you? Or guilty of
Speaker 1: it as well? I went and read in her clothes
Speaker 1: at the other day, but I'm like, um, what all
Speaker 1: do you have of mine? And then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Oh I forgot about that. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Gotten through that a little bit better though.
Speaker 1: They don't live here though, and she gets a lot
Speaker 1: of great stuff. Now, I don't get no clothes. Where
Speaker 1: your influes are. Okay, we gotta wrap up. Leave your light.
Speaker 1: I like to leave all my interviews and leave your lights.
Speaker 1: So leave some inspiration. Just how you want to inspire
Speaker 1: people with your life, how you've been inspired, what you
Speaker 1: want to share, like inspiration. Okay, there you go. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really bad about thinking of stuff off to the
Speaker 1: top of my head. I think just or how you've
Speaker 1: been inspired, work hard, stay true to yourself, and don't
Speaker 1: geet where you came from. That's a good one. Don't
Speaker 1: forget where you came from. Explain that down a little.
Speaker 1: Darcy always used to say that. But it's like my
Speaker 1: grandmother would always be like my grandmother was very influential
Speaker 1: to me, and she would have all these sayings like
Speaker 1: don't count chickens for the hatch because like when I
Speaker 1: did clients, and she would always like, don't turn another
Speaker 1: client down because that one might be bigger. And I
Speaker 1: never did, like if somebody bigger, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I have this person. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that. And yes, it's be true to yourself, but
Speaker 1: also like be true to other, to be true to
Speaker 1: your word, and that's I love that, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's just like old school stuff. I love my grandmother.
Speaker 1: Just be kind to everyone. Yeah, what did Darcy say
Speaker 1: when she she had a good Darcy's my grandmother just
Speaker 1: passed away like three years ago. But she was like
Speaker 1: she was the matriarch of the family, like strong women.
Speaker 1: So Darcy was like Darcy was, says my grandmother. That's
Speaker 1: her great grandmother. And uh, we're all twenty years apart,
Speaker 1: except she broke the cycle. She didn't get pregnant, so
Speaker 1: we all were. My grandmother had my mom at twenty,
Speaker 1: Mom had me at twenty and then I had Hunter.
Speaker 1: But then she broke it out, like, thank goodness, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a grandmother, which it seems great
Speaker 1: now I do, and it's like, all my my mom
Speaker 1: was young, and it's like I don't want to be,
Speaker 1: oh grandma. I tried that. She said, no, I'm only
Speaker 1: like litteral sparkles, sparkles extra extra extra. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that. But she's always being kind to everyone
Speaker 1: and just you know, just give somebody, come worry for
Speaker 1: the day, or like like I always will when I'm
Speaker 1: at my staff or whatever. I was like that was
Speaker 1: really good what you did yesterday just encouraging and take
Speaker 1: the time to stay a encouraging mother, Teresa says, never
Speaker 1: suppressed a generous thought. So you guys are living. That's that.
Speaker 1: I'm okay. Then like cancer out? How sweet or Hunter
Speaker 1: and Melissa hashtag goals. I love them so much, the
Speaker 1: cutest mother daughter do of all times. And y'all get
Speaker 1: excited because there are so many more episodes of the
Speaker 1: Influencers series coming your way. We are just getting started
Speaker 1: with this bad boy, so get excited. We got another
Speaker 1: episode coming at you next week. Piece out by