Simone Baptiste built her career in bridal and event styling, working NYC bridal salons for 7 years before moving into styling education and editorial writing. She trained at Empire Beauty School and later completed advanced certification in braiding and protective styling techniques. Simone has done hair for hundreds of weddings, proms, and formal events — which means she's troubleshot nearly every updo failure mode there is: slipping pins, collapsing volume, hair too fine or too slippery to hold a style.
At Hair Gracefully, she writes the step-by-step tutorials — translating salon technique into instructions a reader can follow at home — and the haircut and face-shape guidance that helps readers walk into a salon prepared.
“An updo tutorial is only useful if it accounts for what goes wrong. I write every tutorial with the failure points built in — not just ‘how to do it,’ but why it slips and how to fix that before it happens.”
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