I just knew all the possibilities," he says.
Wright, a drama major, was enamored with Atlanta’s entertainment scene.
Wright’s instincts about Atlanta were correct: The music and movie networking possibilities are almost endless.
But he ended up in a different scene altogether itsbeauty industry.
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Brandon Maxwell knit vest, top, and shorts.
Atlanta-based model Jaycina Almond is also the founder of Tender, a nonprofit that provides emergency financial assistance to single mothers in Atlanta. Learn more at thetenderfoundation.com.Brandon Maxwell knit vest, top, and shorts. Giuseppe Zanotti shoes. Mounser earrings.Fashion stylist: Mecca James-Williams. Hair: Nasetia Windham. Makeup: Tatiana Kazana. Background talent, skaters: Kamille Gilmore, Jamila Hubert, Tyanna Taplin, Carlae Riley, Justice Johnson, Calvin Finklea, Crystal Marshall, Jemal Everett, Santonio Marshall. Production: Katherine Prato Productions. Special thanks: Fox Theater and Cascade Family Skating.
Fashion stylist: Mecca James-Williams.
Hair: Nasetia Windham.
Makeup: Tatiana Kazana.
On Jaycina Almond (center): The Attico top and bottom. From left to right: Elder Statesmen hat. Pangaiatop. Apparis top and bottom. Theophilio top and bottom.
Production: Katherine Prato Productions.
Special thanks: Fox Theater and Cascade Family Skating.
On his paper route, Nathaniel Bronner Sr. also made deliveries for his sister’s salon.
Founded by celebrity makeup artist Mimi Johnson in 2014, The Glamatory is an Atlanta-based boutique with its own line of vegan makeup. To create a makeup look similar, try The Glamatory Pretty Vee Palette and Lip Drip in Koi.
And it’s become a business incubator of sorts.
Prepandemic, the show was bringing in an estimated $60 million a year.
(There were 300 attendees at the first show in 1947; 20,000 participated in 2019.)
Sergio Hudson jacket and shorts. Jennifer Fisher earrings. Right, on Bobbi Carol: Prabal Gurung dress. Ariana Boussard-Reifel earrings and bracelet. On Jaycina: Miu Miu blazer, shirt, skirt, earrings, and necklace. Background talent: Greg Murray.
“They were cutting edge, the who’s who of the hair industry,” he says.
The beauty scene there was so vibrant that it became part of landmark hip-hop group OutKast’s origin story.
On Jaycina Almond (center): The Attico top and bottom.
Paco Rabanne top and skirt. Chloé earrings.
From left to right: Elder Statesmen hat.
Apparis top and bottom.
Theophilio top and bottom.
From left, on Kiana Baldon: Michael Kors coat. Staud shoes. SVNR earring. On Jaycina: Tory Burch top, pants, belt, and bracelet. Dries Van Noten shoes. Ariana Boussard-Reifel earrings.
But the Atlanta beauty scene also has its quieter beauty success stories.
“Atlant’s web link is crazy.
I just knew all the possibilities.”
The landscape of Atlanta’s beauty scene is multifaceted and its reach is increasingly vast.
Perhaps the most current example of the Atlanta beauty scene’s extended influence isThe Black Hair Experience.
“The creativity was there.”
“It’s a transient location.”
To create a makeup look similar, try The Glamatory Pretty Vee Palette and Lip Drip in Koi.
But Atlanta’s scene has also inspired emergingbeauty brand foundersto put down roots.
(Her brand’smatte lipstickspredate the bold shades ofFenty Beautyby several years.)
Sergio Hudson jacket and shorts.
Right, on Bobbi Carol: Prabal Gurung dress.
Ariana Boussard-Reifel earrings and bracelet.
On Jaycina: Miu Miu blazer, shirt, skirt, earrings, and necklace.
Background talent: Greg Murray.
Who knows where they’ll leave their mark.
“Business is booming.”
Paco Rabanne top and skirt.
Stylist Ricci de Forest has turned one of the last standing Madam C.J.
When Georgia Tech graduate Peiru Kim launched Sugarcoat Beauty in 2010, the salon’s specialty was hair.
Yisrael Wrightwas resident barber for the second season of Donald Glover’s FX show,Atlanta.
From left, on Kiana Baldon: Michael Kors coat.
On Jaycina: Tory Burch top, pants, belt, and bracelet.
Dries Van Noten shoes.
