about
—Cindy’s Story
Beauty has been my world for more than 20 years, and my career has taken me places I never could have imagined when I first became a licensed cosmetologist in 2004.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to build a career spanning weddings, television, photoshoots, special events, and private clients. I’ve worked with countless brides on one of the most important days of their lives and spent more than a decade working in television and on set, where I learned the art of creating beautiful, camera-ready hair and makeup while working calmly under pressure.
Those experiences shaped me as an artist, but they also helped me realize what I’m most passionate about: transformation.
There is something incredibly rewarding about watching someone look in the mirror and see themselves in a new way. Whether that transformation comes through beautiful color, fuller and longer hair, makeup, or restoring hair that has been lost or thinned, I love creating results that still feel like you - just elevated.
That passion has led me into the next chapter of expansion in my career, with hair extensions, mesh and meshless hair integration, customized hair restoration, and transformative color using a holistic color line and products.
My approach to products has evolved personally as well. After years of working around traditional hair color and styling products and becoming increasingly sensitive to the strong fumes and chemicals. I knew I wanted to explore a different way of working behind the chair. Today, I’m passionate about using thoughtfully selected, Ammonia-Free, Gluten-Free, Vegan, PPD Free, more ingredient-conscious professional color options whenever possible, creating beautiful, dimensional results while being mindful of both my clients’ experience and my own working environment.
After more than two decades in beauty, I’m still learning, evolving, and becoming even more passionate about what I do.
Because at the heart of my work has always been the same thing:
Helping someone look in the mirror and love what they see.
- Cindy
Established in San Diego since 2012
COSmetologist since 2004
“I love being in a career that is intended to be of service to others. Everyone deserves to feel confident and beautiful in their own skin.”
2004
Licensed Cosmetologist
20+
Years in Beauty
2012
Established in San Diego
3×
Daytime Emmys Backstage
From The Daytime Emmy Awards
A Backstage dream
turned reality.
I’ve worked backstage at the Daytime Emmy Awards three times, including as lead makeup and hair artist in 2019 and 2022. Today I bring that same calm, camera-ready precision to every client, in my San Diego salon and on location.
ON SET & ON CAMERA
Key and lead artist for network TV, live broadcasts and award shows.
BRIDAL & EDITORIAL
Hundreds of weddings, with work published in Oxygen, Junebug Weddings and MOD Weddings.
Credits
Client List
Twenty years of television, film, print and live events.
Television & Film
Lead makeup and hair for The Jim Rome Show (CBS Sports Network, now A&E Networks / Range Media) · Paramount Global / CBS vendor since 2013 · NFL Today on CBS · Daytime Emmy Awards backstage (2018, and lead in 2019 and 2022) · Super Bowl Radio Row 2022 · Sesame Street documentary · 20th Century Studios · Fox News · NBA and WNBA Media Day
Brands & Productions
Mercedes-Benz · KPMG Golf · Nautica · Xbox Live · Omni Cheer · Ronald McDonald House Charities · Flypack New York · commercials, infomercials and music videos for Mandt Bros, Element, Atomic, Door Knock Media, Fat Chimp, FP1 Strategies, Launch DRTV, Lewis Cooper, San Diego Productions, Taylor-Made, Lioness Ingenuities, ES Productions and Spotted Cow Entertainment
On-Camera Talent
Nancy Cartwright (“Bart Simpson”) · Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons · Freddie Prinze Jr. · Jim Rome · Phil Mickelson · Tony Gonzalez · Cheech & Chong · The Sklar Brothers · Martha Byrne · Kristos Andrews · Lauryn Evarts Bosstick · Evan Washburn · Rodger Lodge · Stacy Lewis · Allie LaForce · Doug Gottlieb · Amanda Balionis · Jay Feely · Bill Reiter · Maggie Gray & Andrew Perloff · Adam Schein · Larry Hryb · touch-ups for Judge Judy, Nancy O’Dell and Sharon Osbourne
Print, Runway & Events
Published in Oxygen, Women’s Health & Fitness, Magnificent, Fine, Training, Train / Bodybuilding.com, Fitness Gurls, Junebug Weddings and MOD Weddings · Comic-Con San Diego media and celebrity makeup and hair, 2014 to today · Taylor Swift 1989 Tour VIP Beauty Experience · Miss California and Miss Arizona · California Cinderella · LA Fit Expo 2015 sponsored artist · LA and San Diego fashion shows
MY APPROACH
Always evolving.
Beauty never stands still, and neither do I. Today I specialize in hair extensions, mesh and meshless hair integration, customized hair restoration and transformative color.