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54 ascp skin deep march/april 2019 was I going to do that while living in Kuwait? I started in my kitchen. I shipped in raw materials from the UK and US and developed Organica in 2006. It was a great starting point for me, and I learned so much from simply playing with formulations. In early 2015, I met my incredible husband, a US Air Force pilot stationed in Kuwait. The next year, I was back in the United States at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. It was the start of my new life of being a legal US resident and new military wife. We now live in Gig Harbor, Washington, where my husband is stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. I had already been working alongside a renowned Canadian laboratory and was ready to develop my first two collections in the Le Pamier Skincare line, the Anti Aging and Oncology Collections. Q. How did your childhood affect the way you think about beauty? A. Being born with a unilateral cleft lip left my younger years with self-esteem issues. I was fortunate that my palate and speech were unaffected, but I always saw my scar and uneven nose. My first surgery was when I was born in 1978, and they took skin grafts to completely close my lip. My surgeon chose to not attempt any other surgeries, as it had healed well. But throughout the years, seeing the scar and how it pulled my nose so it appeared uneven continued to bother me. In 1998, I contacted the same surgeon. He agreed that he could do small revisions to correct the shape. "Be creative and stand apart from your competition. Esthetics college will prepare you for the basics, but advancing your education is key. Continue to educate yourself and always stay on top of the latest trends." —Pamela Bolado