Michelle Patton

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Holistic Hairdresser
I offer my expertise haircutting|styling skills for your personal expression of beauty while holding a ceremonial space for a harmonious flow of mind, body & spirit with the facilitation of energy work.

Turns out the haircut wasn’t the transformation.YOU WERE. Your hair was just the confetti. 🎉 And we are lucky enough to ...
06/24/2026

Turns out the haircut wasn’t the transformation.

YOU WERE.

Your hair was just the confetti. 🎉
And we are lucky enough to witness it.😊

A solstice fueled reclamation, but make it cute.☀️✂️✨
06/23/2026

A solstice fueled reclamation, but make it cute.☀️✂️✨

Most of us (hairdressers) weren’t taught to work with hair this way.I think the underlying old narrative in beauty schoo...
06/18/2026

Most of us (hairdressers) weren’t taught to work with hair this way.

I think the underlying old narrative in beauty schools and in apprenticeships is :

Our job is to make people happy.

And when that becomes the goal, we become fixers.
We feel responsible for everyone’s emotions.
We rush to solutions.
We over-explain.
We over-give.
We try to remove uncertainty.
We try to get it “right.”

And honestly, most of us were trained this way and or it’s taught in most technical training:

The guest has a problem.
We solve it.
Everyone leaves happy.

But when hair sits at the intersection of identity, body, and self-expression, things get more complex.

Because some things aren’t meant to be fixed.

Sometimes a guest is grieving the hair they used to have.
Sometimes they’re wrestling with aging.
Sometimes they’re trying to understand who they are becoming.

No haircut.
No color formula.
No technique.

Can fully resolve that.

What we can do is create enough safety, curiosity, and presence for them to explore it.

That’s where holding space comes in.

When we understand this, our role shifts.

Not every experience needs fixing.

Sometimes people need something else.

A witness.
A guide.
A steady presence.

Someone who can hold space while they navigate change.

And it doesn’t just shift how we feel at the end of the day, it deepens how we show up for our guests.

Curly hair and short hair are often treated like total opposites.They’re not.When curls are given the right shape, they ...
06/17/2026

Curly hair and short hair are often treated like total opposites.

They’re not.

When curls are given the right shape, they don’t lose freedom.
They find it.

Thank you for trusting me Candy Girl Piñatas ~ Carolina and for the amazing conversation ✨

RITUAL BEAUTY COLLECTIVE

What if that’s just another story we’ve inherited without questioning?A narrative woven so deeply into our culture that ...
06/16/2026

What if that’s just another story we’ve inherited without questioning?

A narrative woven so deeply into our culture that many of us don’t even notice it.

Be careful.
Don’t ask too many questions.
Stay where it’s safe.
Follow the map.
Don’t wander too far.

And yet…

Curiosity is how we learn.
How we grow.
How we discover new possibilities and potentials.
How we become.
How we move away from judgment and criticism.
How we human best.

How did we end up turning curiosity into the villain? ✨
Who benefits when we stop questioning?

For me personally,
my most meaningful and impactful experiences
(now and throughout my life)
didn’t and don’t
come from certainty.

They come from curiosity and wonder.

Following a hunch, a joy, my heart,
a nudge from the universe.
Walking through a new door or creating it.
Taking a path that wasn’t certain or ‘normal’ or ‘advised’.

Some people call that risky.

I’ve come to learn that’s what I call
being ALIVE.

So what if curiosity isn’t the problem?

What if the real danger is never venturing beyond the stories you’ve been handed?
What if curiosity isn’t the problem?

What if the real danger is never venturing beyond the stories you’ve been handed?

Oh & FYI - The original saying was actually:
“Care killed the cat,”
with care meaning worry, grief, or anxiety.

Later, it evolved into:
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”

Interesting how we’ve largely forgotten the second half. 🤔

We’ve seen the memes.The ones about us garden people sitting outside with our coffee or tea, staring at our plants with ...
06/13/2026

We’ve seen the memes.

The ones about us garden people sitting outside with our coffee or tea, staring at our plants with such adoration.

I sit in my garden every morning & I find myself wondering: What is it about this that feels so good?

Sure, part of it is the ritual.
The warm cup in your hands.
The quiet before the day begins.
The simple act of slowing down.

We know that nature has been shown to help calm the nervous system, lower stress, and invite us into the present moment. And when we’re present, we tend to savor things a lot more deeply.

The scent of the flowers.
The hum of the bees.
The morning light.
The cool air.

Our senses come alive.

And also, there’s something else.

Our garden is a daily lesson.

Every morning, I witness growth that isn’t being forced.

Seeds sprout.
Buds open.
Bees pollinate.
Life unfolds.

Not because anyone is standing over it demanding results.

It happens through relationship.
Through tending.
Through trust.
Through time.

I think thats what nourishes me so deeply.
In a world that constantly asks us to fix, optimize, hustle, and hurry,
our garden offers us another way.

A reminder that not all growth comes from force.

Some growth comes from creating the conditions, showing up consistently, and allowing life to unfold with an open heart.

So maybe the garden isn’t changing the chemistry of the coffee to taste better.

Maybe it’s changing the chemistry of us.

Teaching our nervous systems that we’re safe.
Teaching our minds that not everything needs fixing.
Teaching our hearts that becoming can be witnessed, not just managed.

Less stress + more presence + sensory wonder =
MORNING MAGIC ✨

A sweet little throwback that still makes me smile✨
06/09/2026

A sweet little throwback that still makes me smile✨

06/07/2026

For anyone who’s ever wondered, “What’s the deal with Michelle and all this hair magic?” … here’s the tea.

I love a beautiful haircut. I also love the human wearing it.

My work lives somewhere between geometry and intuition, technique and ritual, beauty and becoming.

This reel is a little window into the way I see it all.

I don’t think most hairdressers realize the power of their words.Honestly, I don’t think most people do.My heart breaks ...
06/04/2026

I don’t think most hairdressers realize the power of their words.

Honestly, I don’t think most people do.

My heart breaks a little when a guest sits in my chair and tells me they’ve been carrying around something they were told years ago:

“You can’t have bangs.”

“That haircut won’t work on you.”

“Your hair can’t do that.”

Now, don’t get me wrong. Not every hair goal is possible. Hair has its own realities. But many of the limitations people carry aren’t about hair at all.

They’re stories.

Stories passed down through beauty school, through classes, through trends, through well-meaning professionals who were taught a certain way and then repeated it as truth.

I believe in foundations. I believe in understanding the principles before breaking them.

Haircutting is geometry. It’s design. It’s understanding how shape interacts with texture, density, growth patterns, and the human form.

But I also believe that many beauty rules are simply patterns we’ve observed—not universal truths.

The information gets passed down until it sounds less like a possibility and more like a law.

The more years I spend behind the chair, the more I find myself living in the grey areas. Not abandoning the rules, but becoming curious about them.

Why does this rule exist?

Who does it serve?

Is it always true?

Or is there another possibility here?

Because while the principles matter, there is rarely only one right answer.

Some of the most beautiful transformations I’ve witnessed happened when someone stopped believing they “couldn’t.”

Not because the hair changed.

Because the story changed.

And maybe that’s why words matter so much.

A haircut lasts a few months.

A belief can last decades.

So here’s my invitation—to hairdressers, and honestly to all of us:

Be mindful of the stories you’re passing on.

Some of them become part of someone’s reflection every time they look in the mirror.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET MAN BOY!!!!!I remember looking at you as a little baby and wondering who you’d be. What would you l...
05/31/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET MAN BOY!!!!!

I remember looking at you as a little baby and wondering who you’d be.
What would you love?
What would make you laugh?
What would you be curious about?
What would matter to you?

It’s been one of the greatest joys of my life getting to watch those answers unfold.

You’ve always had a way of following your own path, even when it doesn’t match what the world says you should do. You trust yourself in ways that I admire. You stay true to who you are, and that takes courage.

As your mom, I can look back and see all the places where I wish I had known more, understood more, or done things differently. That’s part of life, I think. We learn as we go. We earn wisdom through time and experience. There is no perfect way to do any of this. There’s just loving each other, making mistakes, learning, growing, and trying again.

And through it all, you’ve always been a wonderful, most sweet human.

I see how heavy the world can feel sometimes. I see how much uncertainty your generation carries. The fear is real. The unknown is real.

But so is hope.
So is kindness.
So is laughter, friendship, adventure, love, and all those moments that remind us life is still full of good things.

If I could wish anything for you, it would be this: keep following what lights you up. Keep listening to your own heart. Don’t let fear convince you it’s the only thing that’s real. There is sooooooo much beauty here too.

I wish you lifetimes of magic.

I hope today is a reminder of how deeply loved you are, how cherished you’ve always been, and how many lives are better because you’re in them.

I love you beyond words and I am so grateful and honored to be your mom.

Here’s to another year of laughter, wonder, adventures, and all sorts of magical moments.

Happy Birthday ❤️🥳✨

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