

“Did I know how to do makeup? ‘No.’ I was always girly and prissy and growing up, my mama always kept me so cute. “The owner asked if I knew how to do makeup and I said ‘Yeah,'” Sierra explained. Before she knew it, she was the owner of a makeup counter. The teen mom feared no one would hire her because of her age and lack of experience. On a bus ride headed to the South Dekalb Mall with her best friend, Jody, she attempted to map out her life but was filled with anxiety. With survival on the brain, she dropped out of high school so she could take care of her daughter. Once you have a child, that mother instinct kicks in and you do the impossible, especially, because your kids are looking at you wondering what’s next?” Sierra didn’t know what was next but she was determined to be successful. “She put me out into the jungle and I came back lion. Fifteen and pregnant, she was forced out of her childhood home, and at the time it felt like the end of the world but she now proclaims that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. “That’s when my whole life took a turn,” Sierra revealed in a candid chat. But that changed when she learned she was giving birth to her first child at a young age. The beauty maven was raised in a loving home and didn’t want for anything growing up.

Full of culture and Blackness, it shaped her whole being. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra proudly reps the westside of Atlanta for making her who she is today.
