The Beast in the Beauty: An Inside Look At The World Of Beauty From Challenges To Success

Beauty is art. Being fierce in a fearless world takes courage and practice!

Award-Winning and International Master Stylist, Educator, and Hair Care Extraordinaire, Kevin Kirk teamed up with his Award-Winning Bestselling Author sister, Vicki Kirk May to bring together 9 amazing stylists and beauty experts with different ethnic and economical background. This diverse set of experts shared one thing in common: LIFE!

Life doesn't care that you have a client scheduled in the early morning. Life doesn't care that you have other stylists who depend on you to keep the doors open. Life doesn't care that your clients lean on you for advice. Divorce and heartbreak happens. Death happens. Court filings and being sued happens. Health problems happens - and it seems to happen right when clientele and business pick up!

These 9 experts take off the makeup, remove the wigs and the lashes, take off the bow tie, and turn off the glamour lights. They gather in a safe space, and they reveal stories, some which have never been shared publicly before, of their personal journey in navigating the ever-changing billion dollar beauty industry.

The Beast in the Beauty is a hot, sizzling page turner filled with business tips, life events and survival tips, resources, and even video! Yes, you get to WATCH this on film! #beastinbeauty #bookcollab #beautyexperts #itsafamilything #kirkpro

Kevin Kirk is a native of Bessemer, Alabama and a graduate of Hueytown High School and Step Ahead Cosmetology School. Kevin is the Chief Executive Officer of KirkPro, founded in 2012 to provide the hair care industry with new and innovative products for multicultural hair care. Kevin is currently one of the founding members of the Babybliss Pro Artistic Team and is the current Team Leader/Artistic Director. He is the founder of Hair Artistry Jam Session, an annual networking and educational event for hair care and beauty industry professionals and students. He is also the former Rusk Deepshine Pure Pigment Conditioning Cream Color Educator, working directly with Salon Center. Kevin has been competing on the national level for several years and some of his greatest accomplishments are winning Bronner Brothers' International Hair Battle four times, the only competitor in Bronner Brothers history to do so. In 2017, Kevin won the 70th Anniversary Bronner Brothers' Hair Battle in Atlanta with a breathtaking aerial performance titled, "Beauty for Ashes"! His other wins include Bronners Brothers Houston, Atlanta 2009, and the $50,000 Hair Battle Royale in Baltimore. Kevin has been featured in issues of Upscale magazine, Matrix magazine, Hype Hair magazine, The Source magazine, Modern Salon, and other nationally distributed publications. He has also appeared in two national reality television programs, "Ambushed Make Over" and "Tears, Shears, & Beauty". He co-starred, along with Chris Rock, in the HBO movie titled "Good Hair". "Good Hair" is a documentary film about African-American hair stylists, hair styles, and the roles they have in African-American culture. Kevin's work has also been featured on CNN's website. Kevin appeared, competed, and won The Look All Star competition, a national reality tv show where the top beauty industry leaders compete against one another. Kevin recently won Bronner Bros. Icon Award Educators of the Year. Kevin is committed to using his God-given vision and artistic talents to change the hair care landscape as we know it, and to leave an international legacy that will be unmatched for generations to come. Mark 11:23-24 (KJV) [23] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. [24] Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Find Kevin online at kevinkirkpro.com Social Media handle: @kevinkirk1

Vicki Kirk May is a 23-year-veteran educator in the State of Alabama. Vicki has received numerous degrees in Elementary education with Honors. Because she is a life-long learner, she seeks out opportunities to stay on top of the latest and most effective ways of teaching children. With all that she has accomplished, her biggest accomplishment is her family. Being a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, elder, and ordained minister of the Gospel is true success to Vicki. She is driven by her passion and purpose to change the lives of children one teacher at a time. Known as the Educator's Passion Accelerator, Vicki believes that we all are endowed with gifts and passions to make the world better. Those gifts should not be bound by fear, mediocrity, or status quo, but unleashed to effectuate change in the world and lead you to a life experienced by overflow and abundance. Realizing that a disruption in education had to take place in order for evolution to occur, Vicki set out on her entrepreneurial journey. Vicki provides personal and professional development for educators who are ready to go to the next level in their careers and personal life by becoming the best and highest versions of who they really be. She is an award winning author, speaker, and consultant. Vicki travels the nation showing educators and entrepreneurs how to become great leaders by becoming the highest version of themselves through leadership training, seminars, retreats, and live events. She is the founder of the National Teachers Support Network, an organization created to provide a safe judgment-free community of support for teachers to connect personally, professionally, and socially. NTSN acts as a conduit for educators to receive the support necessary to become the best version of themselves. The mission of NTSN is to equip and empower teachers with the resources, skills, and knowledge necessary to experience their best life in and out of the classroom. For further information about becoming a part of NTSN, go to nationalteacherssupportnetwork.org.