We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Serina Padilla Lopez. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Serina Padilla below.
Serina Padilla , we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?
I grew up with my dad being my best friend, but also my biggest supporter. He pushed me and instilled so much confidence in me from a young age. He told me how great I was and the potential I had I think the biggest thing that drives me is to be kind, and I learned that from him that it does not matter what someone does to you, it matters how you react, and how you treat others says more about you than them.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Hello, my name is Serina Padilla Lopez and I am a curl specialist born and raised in Sacramento California. I own The Curl Lounge my passion in life has always been to do hair and I didn’t specifically know it was going to be working on natural hair. I kind of fell into that, my own Curly trauma caused me to realize I wanted to help other people and I wasn’t the only one out here not understanding my own hair. We really make our hair our identity at times so my job is to help guide my clients and give them a different perspective .
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Learning I go out of my way every 4 to 6 months to take a new class. I try hard to listen to the Stylest that my clients are looking at on Instagram and I will go out of my way to find them and take their class because we can learn so much from others I think another skill I personally have is resilience. I’m the type of person you can never tell me now. I will find another way and dedication to my craft. I love what I do. I say it all the time I wouldn’t give it up for the world.
Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
When it came to doing hair, I never planned on operating on a big level opening. A salon has so many different facets from being customer service to being a receptionist to being HR and being a manager. I never really expected that so my current obstacle is the balance act of putting my time and energy into things that will help flourish my business and it’s honestly all trial and error and I guess being OK with whatever the outcome is.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Thecurlloungesac.com
- Instagram: Yourhairstylistserina | curlloungesac
- Facebook: The curl lounge sacramento
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