The White Birch Gallery Story

This "hair thing" started during my freshman year of high school when I ruined my bedroom rug coloring my own hair. I apologized to my mother for years. She ripped up the rug when I went off to college so I just ruined the bathrooms there instead. Sorry UNCW.

While working at American Airlines I met David, who did hair part-time when we weren't getting yelled at for lost bags. When my best friend decided she wanted to cut her hair, I immediately found some scissors and cut it all kinds of crazy. It was David that came to save my poor friend's hair, but he thought I had potential! I enrolled at Leon's Beauty School at the ripe old age of 26...and Mom finally let me off the hook.

Six years after graduating beauty school, I took a class that changed everything for me. I found my people and I got the education bug. I became an American Board Certified Haircolorist in 2005. I got my Cosmetology Instructor license in 2007. Over the last 10 years, I traveled and taught hair color education to my fellow stylists - in my backyard and as far as Curacao. Yeah, Curacao!

While I had learned so much, from so many - incredible stylists, super smart cosmetic chemists, business geniuses, I realized I missed doing hair. So I came back behind the chair and opened White Birch Gallery Salon in November of 2017. I named it after the New Hampshire state tree. After traveling all over the place for work, living in 6 different states, I knew I wanted to land here in NH. The salon name is a little nod to that decision. And let's be real, decorating with birch trees, wood tones, and greenery is just about as cozy as it gets.