About Me

I didn’t always know I’d be a hairstylist. In fact, at the time, I didn’t think I had many other options. I believed I wasn’t academic enough for anything else, so in 2004, straight out of school, I started an apprenticeship in King’s Lynn.

It turned out I had a real skill for hairdressing. I spent seven years working in a salon, building my experience and learning everything I could. But after a while, I wanted more. I decided to step away to travel, experiencing new places and cultures. When I returned, I set up as a mobile stylist and later began working from home, balancing my love for hairdressing with another local job—all while still making time to travel.

My Relationship with My Hair—A Journey

Before I was 12, I wore my hair in natural protective styles. Then I discovered box braids, and I loooved how easy they were. Throughout secondary school, I mostly wore braids, weaves, or wigs.

By the time I started working in a salon, the sleek, straight look was in, and since I had access to stylists, it was easy to keep my hair straightened. But over time, I noticed the damage—my ends kept breaking, and my hair never grew past a certain point.

In 2013, I started wearing my natural curls more, and by 2014, I fully embraced them—except when I got a haircut, which always meant straightening. But finding a stylist who understood how to cut curly hair properly was impossible.

I didn’t just feel like hairdressers didn’t understand curls—I knew they didn’t. The stylists were trained under the same national curriculum as me, which treated all hair as the same. We were taught precision cutting, which doesn’t always work for curls.

I started searching for curl specialists who truly understood curls. After months of watching their work, I was ready to take the plunge and travel three hours for my first curly cut in 2021 at The Curl Clinic—the same place I later trained.

Why I Specialise in Curly Hair

By 2017, I had stepped away from hairdressing completely, convinced I was done with it. But after some time, I found myself drawn back to hair. I took The Curl Clinic’s course mainly to see if I wanted to return. If I didn’t, at least I’d know how to care for my own curls, my children’s hair, and help close friends and family.

Instead of just learning, I became deeply invested—not just in curly hair care, but in ingredients. I wanted to know why certain ingredients work, which ones don’t, and how to filter out all the misinformation in the industry.

I’ve always loved helping people, and now that I had the training, research, and personal experience, I wanted to share it. I specialise in caring for curls the healthy way, helping others understand their hair and giving them the tools to nourish and embrace their waves, curls, kinks, and coils.

Hi, I’m Kim—Founder of Curl Devotion & Norfolk’s First UK-Accredited Curly Hairstylist.

My first curl Transformation in 2021