Megan Grimm – NAHA 2019
Since its humble beginnings in 1989, NAHA finalists and industry elite have brought this iconic photographic beauty competition to new heights year after year. NAHA continues to recognize the beauty industry’s most talented artists and advance the careers of stylists around the world. Nothing makes us happier than meeting artists we REALLY want to root for… Good people who love the industry, value education and aren’t afraid to put in the hard work.
What one word describes how you felt when you wrapped your NAHA shoot?
Release
How does competing help you as an artist?
It helps me push past my boundaries.
Beyond hair, what other creative outlets do you have?
Before becoming a licensed cosmetologist, I worked in many mediums of art. Performance, dance, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and digital art. I still love them and incorporate them in all of my hairart.
Describe yourself in 5 words
Grateful
Inspired
Creative
Intuitive
Determined
If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?
I would be finding a way to do “this”
What was your biggest F-up with a client?
I had been working with a client for 2 years and a while styling her hair and make up on her wedding day found out that I had been calling her by the wrong name the whole time. She was too sweet to correct me.
Real life advice to someone entering the world of cosmetology
Our industry provides amazing flexibility to develop your creative career. Opportunity is everywhere! Your pursuit of happiness is your journey in everything in life. It is up to you to leap knowing inevitably there will be failure and trial to come. It will not be the same without it.
I knew I was a Hair Nerd when…
I had always loved watching hair stylist behind the chair and growing up. After Majoring in art in college and trying to decide where I wanted my artistic career to go, I had spent several months debating as to whether or not to enroll in cosmetology school. I was getting ready in my bathroom and with the flip of a switch of my hair dryer…I just knew.