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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Princetta trained girls at the Camp Arifjan Army Base in Kuwait. A farewell dinner for Princetta with clients Dr. Carol Ross, President of Kuwait Community College and Dr. Jennifer Beckwith, Director of American United School AUS. Princetta with the Dean’s Wife of Senegal, Fatimah. Princetta with daughter Jewell on the Jameirah Beach in Dubai. Atlanta. Her exceptional talents were rewarded with ribbons and trophies. In 2008, Princetta closed her salon and joined the stylists at Magic City Salon in Lyons. The next year, she said, “I went to Kevosnik Hair Academy in Dublin, Georgia. In 2010, I became the first African American female in Toombs County to obtain a Cosmetology Instructor License,” said Princetta. From 2010 to 2012, she worked at the school as an instructor. In September 2012, she got a call from a close friend who was doing government contract work in Kuwait. “She said, ‘Why don’t you come over here and do hair?’” Until that moment, Princetta had all but forgotten her global dreams. “After I got pregnant, I just wanted to be with family. I wanted stability and to build my clientele. Now, I felt like I was being given the opportunity for an adventure of a lifetime. I said, ‘Ok.’ I thought, I can do three months.” With Jewell taken care of during her time away, she left for Kuwait. Within two weeks, Princetta was offered a job teaching other stylists in a salon on the Arifjan Army Base in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The owner wasn’t a stylist herself, Princetta explained. “She had stylists who were from different countries, but only one of them even knew how to put in relaxers.” When Princetta came home in January, she made plans to once again open her own salon. When nothing seemed to work out, she and her daughter got on a plane and moved to Kuwait. “It was June 16, 2013. After a year of ‘fear of driving,’ I finally bought 58 Toombs County Magazine


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