Behind The Chair
From a single chair in Queens to a multi-city empire across New York, Virginia, and Georgia.
I started braiding at five years old. It was not a hobby. It was my environment. My grandmother, my mother, and my aunt all braided. The skill was passed down before I knew what to do with it.
It was also survival. As a little girl, I was teased over hair my mother — a single parent working multiple jobs — did not have the time to tend to. I made a quiet promise back then to learn how to care for hair, and one day teach others to do the same. That promise became a career.
By twelve, I was building clientele across the boroughs of New York. I went on to open and operate salons in Manhattan — including a location in the Times Square corridor on 42nd Street — before establishing my flagship in Richmond, Virginia. From there I moved to Atlanta, kept building, and never stopped.
Today I am a Master Cosmetologist, salon owner, educator, author, and real estate investor — and the Creator of the Chair to Capital Method, a framework designed to help beauty professionals transition from service-based income into scalable business ownership and long-term wealth.
The lineage continues. My daughter, Enyah Alexandra Eggleston, works alongside me as Lead Stylist & Educator. I trained her, and she has become better than me. We walk into schools together — I tell the story, she teaches the hands.
What changed everything was not working harder. It was learning how to convert active income into systems, and systems into assets.
