LaToya Kelly and Anthony met at a St. Louis salon and are starting a show about salon life. LaToya moved to St. Louis in 2016 looking for work, while Anthony was a newly licensed cosmetologist. They're diving into the debate over licensed versus unlicensed cosmetologists.
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We started. No, I want to say, oh snap, we got an intro. We in there.
Okay, talking about what's cracking. Hot one.
All right, so this is TT and Anthony, and we are about to get started with this grown-up shit. Okay.
So yes, let's get started.
Let's tell the people how we met.
You want to start?
Go. No, you go.
Uh, so we met at a salon, uh, like, pause, like, that's it. Okay, yeah, salon that won't be named, right? But yeah, we met at a salon, and overall it was a good ending to the story because we met each other.
Yeah, yeah. I was fairly new to St. Louis. I moved here in what, 2016? And so to find a shop, to work in it, to meet people, that was pretty cool. And so I was like thinking about this show and I'm like, who would I want? Who could I use? Like, who would be perfect for this? And I'm like, Anthony, like he does hair, you stylish, you got a personality. I remember we were singing. What was that song you were singing all the time?
I don't know.
I always think about songs. The end of that song, you was— I was like, you would say Sierra, remember? Okay, so, um, yeah, that's how we met and it was cool. So I mean, I feel like, when's the last time we talked? At the shop? Was it—
no, I think we talked after that. I don't know, maybe we shared words on Instagram or something, but I do believe we had communication. Yeah.
So I just felt like this—
I sent you around.
I sent you. Sent you. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. So, so yeah, okay, okay. So let's see, I don't even know about an intro. I guess we'll figure that out at some point. That was pretty much our intro.
Yeah, pretty much our intro. Yeah, I went to the salon. That was my first salon I ever worked at, um, as being a new cosmetologist. You know, new licensed cosmetologists. We're going to talk about that too on the show, licensed and unlicensed cosmetologists.
Yes, we are. Okay, okay. So do you want to start there first?
Um, let's start there. That is a good topic.
Do you want to go?
Oh, that's a hot topic too. You know, you're gonna have a lot of mad people talk about this one.
Go ahead.
Well, I'm gonna throw it out because I don't care, honey.
Okay.
I mean, I've done both. I've done both. Working at home, you know, that's another topic, but being an unlicensed stylist, it is very risky, you know, because a lot of people don't know if they find out that you're working as an unlicensed
