Legendary Looks Hair Collection by A.Monroe

About Me

My mom was a hairstylist, so hair has been apart of my life since I was 5 years old. This may sound funny, but I learned how to do hair from my mom or sister not wanting to do my hair when I wanted to try something new. I started out with the kinky twist. I think I was around the age of 12. I wanted my sister to do them for me, and she wouldn’t. It made me so upset that she wouldn’t, so I took it upon to do it myself to do it! At those times, I literally knew nothing about hair. I saw a vision in my mind of what I wanted my hair to look like and got a mirror, rat tail comb, and went from there. It actually turned out to be a big success. At that time, I had two classmates that wanted me to do their hair and I got paid for the job! Next was my 10th grade year, and I really wanted to try some color in my real hair. Well my mom said I could get it, but she wasn’t doing it! Oh wow, that really crushed me because I thought that was the end of the new color I wanted to rock for school. So I there I was again, really wanting something with no one to do it! So instead of asking my mom could I dye my hair myself, I told her. Her reaction was if I take my own hair out, I was still going to school with a bald head! However, I didn’t care, I just wanted that pretty orange color in my hair! Box color was the first color I ever tried and boy did it turn out to be soooo pretty!! That was the start of me doing and creating beautiful flawless colors. This is where the beauty of my career starts. I moved to Jackson at the age 20. I had just started working at the Nissan Plant. I was new to the area so I stuck close to my older cousin Patsy. She was into wearing sew-ins and I had no real clue at that time what they were. Not to mention, I didn’t have a heart for doing hair at all. So my cousin invited me over for dinner on a Monday night. Previously she had asked me to do her hair, but I had told her I had no clue of what a sew-in was! So she told me she had a girl that was coming over that had been doing her hair, and she wanted me to watch her. So I was like okay, cool! So I went, ate, and watched tv. The girl was there, and I didn’t watch anything she had done! I really didn’t take my cousin serious at the time, about 4 weeks later, she calls me to ask if I was ready to do her hair! And I was like oh no, you can’t be serious! But she was! I admitted to her that I had no clue of what I should do but she insisted that she new a little and that she would assist me! The day finally came, and I will not lie, it took me hours to mess her hair up! The next day she went to work and sent me a picture. Her sew-in started so far back! I thought I looked horrible! I was ready to do it over again, but she said she would wear it for two weeks and that I could try it again then. Thank God for her believing me, because that’s wear my love for hair started. Everything that I have learned came from self practice and patience. My clientele came from people seeing my cousin hair and how flawlessly her hair weave was done! We both definitely didn’t think I would get this far ! When I was a little girl, I didn’t dream of being a hairstylist. Eight years later, I am HairByA.Monroe. I have my own business, hairline, wig line, and products! Thanks to each of you that I have met on my journey for the opportunity! I can not wait to meet many more of you!