She's a longtime artist who comes with a professional pedigree that includes her father, Stephen Shortridge, an internationally acclaimed painter.
Yet there has always been something about full-time painting that didn't appeal to her.
"It had to do with being alone in a studio," Hayley Shortridge-Gabriel said. "I wanted to do something that helped people. I wanted to interact with people on a more personal level than their just hanging my art in their homes.
"I wanted to see the difference I could make in their lives."
It was a chance encounter with a stranger in a hardware store a couple of years ago that started her in a new artistic direction: permanent cosmetics. While often considered solely a makeup enhancement procedure for improving eyebrows, eyeliner and lips with long-lasting colors, the field of permanent cosmetics also includes scar camouflage and post-mastecto my coloring such as areola and nipples.
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