INTRODUCTION

Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Liberia, West Africa - a place where my passion for hair began. By the age of ten, I began to braid and style everyone's hair - both family and friends. When I decided to turn this practice into a career, I moved to New York and began my career in Soho at the iconic John Dellaria Salon, where I learned precision cutting.

After much training, I moved uptown to a very different clientele and salon experience - at Varin on the Upper East Side, where I learned the art of French hairstyling. I am a master because I learned from the best. During this time I continued to build both my client book and experience outside the salon by doing hair at NY Fashion Week for shows like Stella McCartney, Oscar de la Renta, Mugler, and Carolina Herrera. With all these experiences, under great masters of hair - I made the difficult decision to gain more independence and moved to Filament Salon in the East Village - where I combined all that I learned and began to make my own rules, and build a focus on curly heads.

I  expanded my reach to working at The Gregory Hotel where I gain knowledge working as an independent stylist. Diving deeper into the curly world, I became a senior stylist at the prestigious devachan salon both in SoHo and UWS. Knowing that I wanted to give my clients more, I made the move to open Candace Witherspoon salon. A place where all hair types (straight, curly, wavy, short, long, etc) are welcome. In addition, I train future stylists as an educator for DevaCurl. I have pursued my education at DevaCurl Academy of New York, L'Oréal Academy, Ouidad Academy, Aveda Institute and Keratin Complex and have had work published in Allure, Marie Claire, New York Post, Refinery 29, Dove | Mic, Self Magazine, Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic and Byrdie.

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