Hi, my name is Brenna Little and I am a cosmetology student at Avalon Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada! I decided to go to cosmetology school after working hard my entire high school career to obtain an Associates' Degree before my high school Diploma. As you can imagine, this was not an easy task, especially with the pandemic resulting in my entire senior year of high school and final year at community college to run online only. The stresses of transitioning to University online with no help from advisors, as well as the obligation of staying local to avoid the dangers of the virus all seemed counterproductive to my long-term goals at the time; which led me to research cosmetology programs that I never considered before, as they had never been brought up by college advisors or counselors who urged me to rush into university. This research ended up being the most important and influential choice I've made thus far for my future. In my cosmetology career, I hope to impact people's lives in a significant way by being understanding and accepting of the many things that people have to face regularly in their lives. I hope to learn about every hair type and every technique that comes with working with hair textures that aren't my own because as a beauty professional, I know it's my job to help everybody feel beautiful and understand all hairstyles no matter the hair they are done on. I hope to learn about wig making and fitting, even if it doesn't relate to my daily work because I know that there will be a client who needs my help someday getting used to their temporary or permanent hair replacements due to personal reasons. I know that someday I will get my license and be able and willing to help people in need who have not had access to the resources they need to have their hair washed, cut, and styled to their liking and needs. My passion for the field of cosmetology goes far beyond the need to exclusively work on clients who want expensive services or finding ways to do less work for my much appreciated paying clients; which is, unfortunately, something I find quite rare in my city especially. I hope to someday work towards reuniting the beauty community in making all people feel beautiful and selflessly putting the clients' needs and desires first. I believe that clients should not be an exclusive club of high-paying members; be told that what they want is wrong, or feel unwelcomed in their stylists' presence. I hope to bring back the novelty of a good hairdresser and be the hairstylist that my community knows they can trust. To fulfill my passion, I hope to graduate from cosmetology school with straight A's and get straight into working for a salon whose values I align with as a stylist. In school, I hope to work with a new client at least every week who I can learn more from and gain more experience and insight into the daily life of working as a cosmetologist, as well as take more regular clients. As I get closer to graduation, I hope to meet more amazing people like those who I've already worked with and find out which direction to push myself in as I get closer to graduating and working with the public as well as possibly returning to college in hopes of studying Architecture or another Art while still making Las Vegas feel beautiful, thanks to what I've learned and what I can offer to the community.