This Is My Story
I’m a millennial mom of 2, soon to be 3 from Honolulu, Hawaii hat makes a living as a hairstylist with a passion for law of attraction, health, wellness and just living an overall positive lifestyle. I am a true believer that you attract everything you put out into the universe and we are all the creators of our own reality.
I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a fairly middle class family with my two younger brothers. We weren’t the wealthiest, but we always had a home, food, water, and clothes so I’d say we were pretty blessed. I was fortunate enough to go to a small private school for elementary and middle school then a good public high school. I was just your average student. I wasn’t the best student, nor was I the worst.
After high school, I felt lost and had no idea what I wanted to do. I had an idea of being a hairstylist and going to beauty school, but my dad told me to try a year of college first to see what’s out there and if I still wanted to go to beauty school, then I could go. I did the year in a community college and hated it because I had no interest in being there and that’s when I realized college isn’t for everyone. In that year, I worked at an on campus daycare and a server at a restaurant.
I got pregnant at 19 from my high school boyfriend and decided to get married because I got pregnant. I decided that I didn’t want to do the whole college thing and just worked at the restaurant where I became the manager. It was good money, but it wasn’t something I didn’t have a passion for. So a couple years of working there, I decided that it was time to enroll in cosmetology school.
With a two year old and my husband away at college in Washington, I enrolled in the Paul Brown Institute of Cosmetology in downtown Honolulu. I was a very intensive year. cosmetology school is based on hours. In Hawaii we needed to do 1800 of school. Each school day was 8am to 5pm and even had to go in on holidays. After school, I’d go to work at the restaurant then go home at 10 pm to my son and assist a hairstylist every Saturday. I wouldn’t have been able to do all that without the help of my family.
After graduating cosmetology school, the hairstylist that I assisted opened up her own salon and I worked there for a good year. That is where I learned so much of my color techniques and color theory, but as am employee, we weren’t treated very well so I left the salon. It honestly made me dislike doing hair so I decided I needed a break. I went back to the restaurant for several months just to take a break from hair and in that time became pregnant with my second son.
I decided when my second son was a few months old that I wanted to be back in a salon, so I worked at a corporate salon for a couple years. It was alright, but I felt like there was no room for growth, but it was in that time when I was introduced to the law of attraction and learning how to connect with myself more spiritually to create a better life for myself. It just so happened that the salon closed its doors the exact day Hawaii shut down during the pandemic. With my new knowledge of the law of attraction, I looked at it with a positive outlook and good things were happening.
When the pandemic was over, I started working at the salon that I am at currently, JV Salon and it is the best salon I have worked at. I have made lifelong friends and I am constantly in a growing environment surrounded by such amazing stylists.
Although my work life was great, when it came to my personal life, things were a little tougher. My relationship with my husband was rocky. It wasn’t bad, we just grew apart over the years. It turned into one of those relationships where we would barely talk to each other. We put up with it because of the kids, but I realized that I was sacrificing my happiness. I thought we were doing a favor for the kids, but in reality, it was making things worse because they saw 2 parents together, but never spoke to each other rather than 2 parents separated, but both genuinely happy. So we kind of had an unspoken agreement to separate, but still lived in the same house. (Still not a great situation)
I spent about a year just feeling lost and incomplete, but had no idea what I was missing. Then one day I took my sons to the beach and ran into my friend who was with her boyfriend and his friend. She ran up to me and told me that her boyfriend’s friend asked about me. At the moment, I thought “oh, just another guy who wants to fuck” or “he probably does this to all the girls,” but I went up and said hi anyway.
About a week passed and I saw a message on Instagram from him saying that we should go get a drink sometime and gave me his number. I didn’t know what his intentions were, so I didn’t text him for a couple weeks. Then one day, out of no where I decided to just text him because there would be no harm in that. So we went out for a drink, and here I am today 6 months later, in love, living together, pregnant with our baby girl.
I remember writing in my journal manifesting the life I have right now. Of course I’m not at my final destination, but I feel so grateful to be where I am right now. This is just my reminder to you that a lot can happen in a few months. If I were to look back a my life 6 months ago, it looked completely different. I went from feeling incomplete, to living the life I’ve scripted in my journal to manifest.
I can’t wait for you to follow me on my journey through life and hope to be of somewhat inspiration to you and for you all to inspire me. Let’s manifest the life we desire.
