In college, my hair was in crisis. I tried every product on the shelf. When that didn't work, I turned to YouTube university for every DIY fix the internet had to offer. None of it helped. Some of it made things worse. So I cut it all off and started over.

That decision turned into an obsession. I wanted to understand hair past the marketing, what ingredients actually did, what a scalp needed to support real growth, what "healthy hair" meant once you stripped out the buzzwords.

That obsession became my career. I've been a stylist for over a decade now, working in natural hair, protective styles, and color services. And over those years, natural hair became my focus, because that's where I kept seeing the same story play out in my chair that I had lived myself: clients trying everything on the shelf, spending money on products full of fillers and promises, and their hair still not getting what it needed.

I was watching people live my college crisis on repeat. And this time, I knew enough to do something about it.

I knew exactly what these formulas needed to have, and what they couldn't have. I didn't start by putting them on my clients. I started with my own head. I used every product on my own hair first, because I wasn't putting my name on anything I wouldn't trust on myself. Only when I saw the results on my own hair did I bring them into my chair, and then I watched them work on my clients, week after week, on different textures, different needs, real heads.

That's what Garden of E is. Every product carries my name because it passed my hair first, then my clients' hair, before it ever reached a shelf. Ingredients that work, explained honestly, with nothing oversold.

I've been on both sides of the chair, the frustrated customer who cut it all off, and the professional who spent a decade learning what actually works. That's what's in every bottle.