![]() ![]() When I didn’t know how I was going to feed my daughter if I didn’t stay consistent, then I wouldn’t be where I am today.Sierra Gates is a celebrity makeup artist and entrepreneur. Even with this whole buy Black movement, we are going to have our ups and downs. SIERRA: Stay consistent in everything that you do. HH: What advice do you have for the women you’re pushing into their next season? It was always God sending somebody who I knew nothing about that knew hardly anything about me who pushed me into my next season. It’s always going to be the people you don’t know. SIERRA: Family and friends are not going to be your biggest supporters. HH: Reflecting on your own growth, what is one thing you wish you knew before getting started? SIERRA: I love Shimmer Elite Extensions by Bambi, The Crayon Case by Supa Cent, and Milano Di Rouge. Can you share three you are rocking right now? HH: Speaking of all-Black everything, you’ve also been celebrating other Black-owned brands since day one. I need them to know if God did it for me He can do it for y’all. I market to Black girls, my clients are Black, and my consumers are Black. So, it’s like I have a point to prove to make other girls-other Black girls-successful. I know that other little girls are put in that same predicament, and they are told that they can’t be great in life. I was a teen mom and told by numerous people I was going to be a statistic. HH: You have been very vocal about building up Black women. We stay safe, but I still want to give them this six-figure technique because when this whole thing lifts, they can take off running. SIERRA: I make sure we wear our masks, and our students sit six feet apart from each other. HH: How has it been touring with your classes during the pandemic? You can’t take it off! It’s literally going to be on for a year-and-a-half. You’ve got to make sure you really love it because you’ve got to be patient with your clients. SIERRA: Microblading is like a mini surgery. HH: What should beauty hopefuls know before taking your class? SIERRA: Microblading got me to my building where I am at now-I bought the building about two years ago. So, when this new wave came back out, I said, “let me try it out.” I mastered it and have been doing it ever since. They loved my makeup, but they were always in love with my brows. SIERRA GATES: Thank you! I started out as a makeup artist. HYPE HAIR: Congratulations on your success! Your “Microblading The Sierra Way” classes are making waves in the industry. Here, the beauty mogul talks about her passion for building up Black women and the key to lasting success. And, she’s penned an e-book, aptly titled Make A Million, Maintain A Million, with more tips and tricks. She’s helped hundreds more open up e-commerce shops stocked with items from her own vendor lists. With 13 years in the game, she teaches budding beauty bosses money-making techniques with her microblading and scalp hyperpigmentation courses. That’s why she has made it her mission to show other young women how to build their own empires-even during a pandemic. ![]() Sierra’s beat-the-odds success is not lost on her, either. She not only owns The Glam Shop, a full-service beauty salon in Atlanta-she also owns the building it is housed in. She has gone from having her car repossessed in front of her salon to owning a million-dollar beauty empire. Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Sierra Gates is the definition of beauty boss moves. ![]()
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