Kimmi Le

My name is Kimmi Le and I work at Studio 4 Salon in Newport Beach as a hairstylist, makeup artist, and an educator. I also work on an artistic team as a senior artistic director/team member, and I love freelancing on photo shoots and fashion shows as much as I can. In 2007, I won avant garde stylist of the year for the North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHA). While I was in high school, I went to fashion shows to assist one of my sisters when she worked as a makeup artist. By the time I finished high school, I really wanted to be a fashion photographer. In the middle of my first semester of college I knew that the normal college life wasn\'t for me. Being the control freak of my work that I am, I knew I wanted to do the hair and makeup as well as the photography so that the entire vision would be mine. Cosmetology school is fairly quick, so by the 2nd semester of college I started cosmetology school in March of 1998. Began working in a salon as an assistant by late 1999 after I became a licensed cosmetologist. While I was in beauty school I worked as a freelance artist for hair and makeup on photo shoots and fashion shows and carried that with me when I began working in the salon and have never left this industry. Something I thought I wanted to be, introduced me to what I LOVE!