Rising Stars: Meet Julia Krasinski of Dearborn, Michigan

Today we’d like to introduce you to Julia Krasinski.

Hi Julia, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I started my entrepreneurship endeavors as a young teenager. I like to believe that I was a young entrepreneur even in my childhood. I grew up in a small town in Freeland, Michigan and we had something every year where people would come from all over the state to shop at garage sales. It’s some of the best memories of my life is skipping school because the buses couldn’t get through the masses of people and cars in the roads! I like to think my career as a young entrepreneur started way back to the when I was a child! I used to do face painting at my families garage sales and the same families year after year would come back for my goreous artwork on kids/teens faces! My grandmother and mother would model for me while they were sitting in the garage while I had examples of face painting artwork off the internet of what I could do at the time for just a tiny 8 year old.

But I truly started paying attention to entrepreneurship when I first learned that my father owned and operated his own businesses. It was genuinely amazing to me how one man could do so much, and give up so much so much of his life for someone else to live theirs happily. He has been not only one of my many mentors about business ownership and operations in life, but my very first mentor in life about many lessons.

I started my very first business when I was 17 years old. Although I happened to put it ion the back burner as I didn’t have enough savings or time to commit to a full on job as a CEO as I was duel-enrolling in cosmetology school and high school in 12th grade. I eventually learned that that beauty brand is what I want to do in my life, I still want to do it and is currently my main goal in life. To own and operate a very large scale makeup/skincare brand that could potentially land itself in a store one day like Sephora or Ulta. That is one of my biggest dreams. And boy, if you knew me, you’d know I’m one of the most stubborn and hard working people there is in this world. And that means if I want something, I will walk through hell to get what I want. And although I’ve put that business on the side lines for now, that doesn’t mean I don’t have other things going on!

My current business I have as current owner and CEO has been in operations for 1 year! Its name is Blooming Beauty LLC. You can easily find me on Facebook at @Blooming Beauty and on Instagram at @bloomingbeautyprofessional! I love doing what I’m doing, I currently work with a company called “My Salon Suites” and that is where I work/rent out of for my current room where I perform luxury services to my clientele! I perform all different types of permanent makeup such as eyebrows and lip blushing, I do eyelash extensions, eyebrow lamination and tinting, eyelash lamination and tinting, regular makeup/bridal & prom makeup, I perform facials as well, wax people’s faces including eyebrows and upper lip, and so much more, you can look on my website at https://bloomingbeautyprofessional.glossgenius.com for more information!

But all of this success hasn’t been without major struggle. With every good rewarding story there has been sacrifice, time lost with loved ones, regret, hurt, and pain. I am a simple person. I am a CEO that simply wants to do good in this world. I want to benefit from my business(es) and give it forward to the people I think in this world truly deserve it. There are so many people in this world that would love to be in my position and my heart just can’t help but break for the many that can’t be where I am. So I would love to help as many as I can when I because majorly successful. My father and mother, when I was growing up, always taught me to pay it forward. That when you do good in life, that karma (whether it’s good or bad) will reward you or punish you based upon your actions in life. So I have ALWAYS tried to do good in life. And I’m simply human, I will admit, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but then again, what human hasn’t? No one is perfect. And that’s why I aim to help as many people as I can in my life. It feels good to help people who need help, and who want help. Because I know this personally, asking for help, is one of the hardest things there is to do.

I have severe adhd and mild autism. So learning has always been a struggle to me. And as a child and teenager I matured slower than all of my friends and other people my age. I felt alone and left behind in life. While all my friends were going to college, having kids, starting families, buying houses, or simply going on vacations, and even to starting their dream careers. I felt so behind in life compared to them. And now I know that I was never behind. I was simply on my own path. My mother has been one of my biggest mental supporters throughout the years of my young adulthood while trying to learn things about adulthood. Because I, like many young adults, go into adulthood terrified of what’s to come and with the thought, “what if I fail?” And that was an everyday thought for me. It became so hard on me that I became truly depressed and anxious. I even started to become severely mentally ill with all of the stress of building a new business and just becoming a young adult and trying to go to college and balance and juggle everything all at once. It had felt like the world had turned inside out.

But then, one day I thought, what if everything stops, and I take a risk. I had always been one to take risks, to jump off my bunk bed when I was a child and risk breaking my arm just to make my sister laugh at me so she would feel better or something (yes I was a risk taker even as a kid), I can’t even tell you how many times I went to the doctor because I almost broke my ankle at school at the play ground. Or the one time I punched my locker at school because the kids locker next to mine was so full his locker was bending mine so I couldn’t open it and I was angry and I punched it (yes, another stupid and very poor decision on my end), again, I was a very idiotic teenager, give me some credit! But back to the risk thing. One day I thought, why not take a big risk that I had never done before. So I quit college, I started Blooming Beauty, found My Salon Suites and started renting there, and now here I am. Just rolling with the flow, seeing where the tide takes me. And it’s beautiful too. And I couldn’t be any happier of where I am in my life as of today.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It definitely has not been a smooth road, it has been a very bumpy road, as I have previously stated, I have adhd and mild autism. In which kids in school were relentless for their bullying. Bullying was the main struggle for me. My school that I went to was “praised” for their “no bullying” program which basically wasn’t a thing. The teachers didn’t care and the principal didn’t care either. There was a kid in my grade who made a bullying Instagram account so he could post about certain kids on that account and bully them without teachers and other kids knowing because of course it was private. One of the videos on that Instagram was a video of a random “emo” girl dancing to music and the comment he had commented under the post in the caption was my name. It’s funny how bullies think you don’t know about the things they’re doing. It’s quite hilarious actually, because if you compare my life to his life right now it’s pretty ironic about how successful I am compared to him. Remember that karma thing I was talking about earlier? Yea, that’s why I always try to be nice to people. I’ve dealt with bullies since kindergarten. And even teachers as bullies as well. Teachers never really fully understood my adhd and autism, so they just bullied me instead. That really hurt. But eventually it stopped because I reached high school and took classes I really liked and there were similar people like me in those classes so I made lots and friends in those classes. I also loved the new teachers in high school. They were much more willing to work with me and my disabilities than say a k-6 school for some odd reason. But I always loved the art classes in high school, I think I took every single art class there was until I couldn’t anymore! Art has always been a passion of mine, I used to sell paintings at crafts shows right before fall/winter time and right before spring time so I could save up some extra money at the time as a teenager!

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I specialize in a bit of everything I would like to say because I’m a licensed cosmetologist. But hair isn’t my favorite thing to do. In fact it bores me often times than not. What my favorite thing to do is makeup/skincare! What I do is run my business every day, day in, and day out. That business is my baby and soon my next endeavor will be as well! Keep an eye out peeled for that announcement coming soon! I am mostly known for my makeup and glamour/bold looks on people. I don’t go for a basic eye look. I go for metallics, the rainbow, glitters, if I had one person to name that inspires me in the makeup industry it would be Pat McGrath, because she is such an ICONIC makeup artist in the beauty industry. And I would love to collaborate and work with her on something one day. Hey, a girl can dream right! What sets me apart from others is that I’m not afraid to aim and set my goals high, I’m not afraid to reach for the stars. Because I know one day I will reach the star and sky and accomplish my dreams, it might not be today or tomorrow or the next day. But it will be someday.

Contact Info:

• Website: Https://bloomingbeautyprofessional.glossgenius.com
• Instagram: @bloomingbeautyprofessional
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BiAmZXTfz/?mibextid=wwXIfr
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@juliakrasinski
• Yelp: https://yelp.to/dkR4c4TfK4