ABOUT ME

By the time I was 18 I knew I wanted three things out of life: I wanted to be rich, I wanted to be my own boss, and I wanted to travel the world… I haven’t quite made it to the rich part yet but I have learned that with doing hair I can be my own boss and travel the world… two outta three isn’t so bad. 

 

With that being said my name is Nat, short for Natalia-Cerilyn. If there was a balance between hood and classy, it’d be me. Deeply rooted from the city of Compton, California with a shop in Long Beach, Ca. I’m the oldest of 11 kids and picked up braiding when I turned 8. Most people ask if having a lot of siblings had anything to do with me learning how to braid on my own and to be completely honest, not really. I was a tender headed kid with a mom who didn’t have a tender hand. I hated sitting through getting my hair combed in pain just for the style to be so basic, my mom tried.. so I learned how to do my own hair. Which then led to braiding, and then being that “one” relative In the family that “can do your hair”. Doing hair casually in my family for so many years I never would have guessed I would be doing it as a full time profession now. 

 

I started to take clients in 2016 on the side while working other full time jobs out of my bedroom in Compton, Ca. In 2018, I moved to Nebraska and worked in a hair salon as a braider full time for a little while until I got pregnant and moved back home in 2019. In February 2020, I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl and then the pandemic hit in March. Not too long after, I was taking clients with a small outdoor set up in my driveway during the pandemic. The pandemic was a blessing in disguise. Due to the world being on lock down, my world was just beginning. I became a mommy, my clientele tripled due to salons not being open, I started my own organic hair product line, and I travel and host braiding braiding classes. 

 

I currently have my own hair studio in North Long Beach. Over these last few years, I’ve been able to do hair on music video sets for Migos, Nicki Minaj & Young Bleu, Asake, and have even been able to pick up celebrity clientele. If someone would’ve told me in high school that I’d be doing hair for a living, I would not have believed it. But I love what I do. I love the clientele I have made, thankful for the growth in my brand and the journey I’ve been on and I’m sticking by it to see where hair takes me another 10 years from now.