Connie Flagg

Manicurist

I’m a native Californian who grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, and I’m Mexican. I was delivered by my father at home on Arapaho St. Los Angeles. What a DAD!  Yes there is a whole brood of us, two older brothers and one younger brother and sister. Surrounded by boys, I learned how to climb trees and run for cover.

I can still hear my mother’s words as she leaned over the cutting board rolling out her famous homemade flour tortillas, “miha go to trade school.”  I suppose with the countless trips she let me make to the store to buy construction paper, the endless fabric I cut up and turned into doll clothes, and of course the indescribable culinary creations I popped out of the oven, she knew I had to create.
Needless to say, I didn’t listen. As a grown-up, when I had finally had enough of the banking field I remembered her words…

I attended Flavio’s Beauty College in Redondo Beach.  I started out in a small hair salon in Manhattan Beach then moved on to another hair salon in the city of Carson for six years. The clientele I built in that city has since become what I only call friends. I eventually moved on to explore my industry further. I worked from Melrose to Malibu with hair stylists and estheticians and with all ethnicities.

My older brother Andrew had a great fashion career in Beverly Hills in the 80’s and helped nurture that esthetic side of me. So off I went to the beautiful hotels of Los Angeles working off my Mexican tortilla hips. I landed a job at the beautiful Peninsula Hotel Spa for a while and currently the Four Seasons Hotel Spa. Working in the hotel industry for several years has refined the level of service I can give and challenges me to constantly strive to be better. These high standards have served me well.

I’m so happy to say one of my Carson friends referred me to Queen Bee as a waxing client. The rest is another chapter in my career history. I get to work in the neighborhood with awesome clients, surrounded by a great group of certifiably nutty girls. I now know British slang is quite similar to Spanish slang…go figure.

bloke=chavala
bangers n mash=beans and rice
Pimms=Tequilla