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rystal Wright is a self-help author, educator, motivational speaker and advisor to freelance styling professionals. She is an internationally recognized expert on the subject of career building and marketing for beauty professionals and regularly appears as a guest speaker and educator at fashion and beauty trade shows, and events.
Crystal Wright was born on January 13, 1958 in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington and attended both Seattle University and the University of Washington after high school. After being cajoled into applying for a summer internship position at Xerox Corporation she won the assignment against a field of over 50 students. The internship ended with an offer for full-time employment. Five years as an account executive at Xerox would teach her everything she needed to know to become a celebrity styling agent for professional makeup, hair and fashion stylists in Hollywood.
In 1994 after being pursued for advice by a number of young hopefuls, Crystal wrote a self-help book to guide aspiring stylists in developing the tools, skills and professionalism necessary to establish themselves behind-the-scenes in entertainment, fashion and beauty. Crystal Wright's Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide, now in it’s 5th edition, is used as a textbook for fashion styling courses at The Fashion Institute of Technology, F.I.D.M, Int’l Academy of Design, Miami Int’l University, and George Brown College. Professional Makeup and Hair Schools such as Makeup Designory, and Downey Makeup School incorporated it and Crystal’s two and three day “Portfolio Building and Marketing Workshops” into their curriculum as a finishing program prior to graduation.
In the summer of 2008 with the worsening recession, a succession of corporate bankruptcies which drove many of her clients out of business, and thousands of dollars of unpaid invoices, Wright knew that the season of artist management was over. It was time to turn up the heat on her passion for educating, motivating and teaching others how to create professional success.
God gave her a vision for a book and audio program that would refocus a person’s attention on identifying and maintaining 100 percent in their lives. The book and accompanying audio titled 30 DAYS AT 100 PERCENT: CHANGING YOUR LIFE 30 DAYS AT A TIME were completed in just three short months.
30 DAYS AT 100 PERCENT begs the question: How would your life be different if you were striving to live at 100%? The program challenges the reader to complete the sentence, “I am 100 percent when,” in eight different areas of their life. It further suggests that by focusing on changing only 1 or 2 things every 30 days, you can start to take your power back in month one, gain momentum in month two, and begin to achieve again in month 3 by eliminating the excuses that keep us enslaved to a life half lived.
30 DAYS AT 100 PERCENT challenges you to identify and manage yourself to your own 100%, and insists that by eliminating bad habits, choosing to do something new, and refusing to take no for an answer from anyone, including yourself, you can begin to achieve again or for the first time in your life.
“While we can't change what has happened,” says Wright, “I know from experience that by taking responsibility for your choices, changing your actions, attitudes and habits, you can reclaim your power, reinvent yourself, and step into the life you choose. We can rise above our immediate circumstances, change course, excel and thrive 30 days at a time.”
“I would never have thought that in the midst of my own personal chaos, when it looked like everything in my life was falling apart, that God would give me 30 DAYS AT 100 PERCENT: CHANGING YOUR LIFE 30 DAYS AT A TIME so that I could learn and help others to Focus again, gain Momentum, and finally, begin to Achieve”.
Wright credits her grandmother with giving her the guidance, wisdom, self-confidence, and the necessary commitment to excellence to pursue her dreams.
Today Wright publishes CrystalWrightLive.com a website portal for the freelance makeup, hair and fashion styling community, produces a national portfolio building and marketing workshop, bi-annually updates her flagship venture, Crystal Wright's Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide, and is now teaching her new workshop titled “Living Life at 100 Percent: Mastering the 100% Mindset.
An excerpt of her book, 30 DAYS AT 100 PERCENT and several audio clips are available through the links provided below:
30 Days at 100 Percent Look Inside the Book
30 Days at 100 Percent Prologue, Intro and Welcome.
30 Days at 100 Percent Welcome Back, Focus, Achievement, Goals
TV APPEARANCES
Featured as an Expert Guest on:
Funny Face Centennial Collection DVD with Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire Special Features Section
TV-One: Turn Up The Heat with G. Garvin “Catch of the Day”
Lifetime TV: The Glass Ceiling––Why Men and Not Women Make it to the Top of the Celebrity Hair Styling Industry
The Other Half: One Look 4 Sizes
Home & Family Channel: Lifestyle Fashion Segment Expert
Making It: The Crystal Agency as a Success Story in the Entertainment Industry
Home & Family: Hip-Hop Fashion Segment
Speaking Engagements
Unleash & Enhance the Diva in You, Los Angeles, CA – March 2010
Living Your Life at 100 Percent
The Makeup Artist Show, Los Angeles, CA – February 2010
Living Your Life at 100 Percent
Mizani Hair Care for Loreal, Scottsdale, AZ – February 2010
Portfolio Building & Bio Creation
Art Center School of Design, Pasadena, CA – July 2009
30 Days at 100 Percent: Changing Your Life 30 Days at a Time
MixxedIn Business Development Mixer –– June 2009
30 Days at 100 Percent: Changing Your Life 30 Days at a Time
The Makeup Show Los Angeles & New York – April & May 2009
Marketing You – Crystal Wright & Michael DeVellis
Downey Adult School Makeup Academy Commencement Address – Spring 2009
The Business of Creativity
Crystal Wright Live – 1999 to Present
Crystal Wright’s Packaging Your Portfolio Workshop: Marketing
Yourself as a Freelance Makeup, Hair or Fashion Stylist
Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Chicago
Makeup Artist Summits in Miami and Chicago – October 2009
Keynote Address – Living Your Life at 100 Percent
Workshop – Marketing You
Urban Beauty Collection - Fall Into Your Beauty – November 2009
Living Your Life at 100 Percent
Boys & Girls Clubs of America – 2008 National Keystone Conference
Building a Career in Fashion Styling
Learning Annex – March, April, May 2005
Make Money in Fashion, Videos, and TV & FILM as a Makeup, Hair or Fashion Stylist: A Top Agent Shows You How.
MAC Cosmetics Master Classes 2004 & 2006
Build Your Styling Portfolio: Miami, Denver, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles & Mission Viejo, Nashville.
N.A.B.E.T 700 – Toronto Film & Video Technicians 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2008
Packaging Your Portfolio: Marketing Yourself as a Freelance Makeup Hair or Wardrobe Stylist
Brooks College Commencement Address – Spring 2004
HONORS
Women’s Economic Development Corporation - Entrepreneur in Action Award
Makeup Designory, Burbank, California - Advisory Board Member
Los Angeles Trade Technical School – Cosmetology Advisory Board Member
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Jenesse Center for Domestic Violence
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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