My Style Trailblazing Interview.

Miracle, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I started out with fashion and style at age 16, honestly, I believed I started the minute I got my first Barbie doll (laughs). When I was a little my dream originally was to become an actress, I had no clue that fashion styling was even a thing, but whenever I had my dolls in my hand I was fascinated with changing the clothes or cutting up a piece of fabric from another cloth to make a dress, I remember once I used Elmer’s glue thinking it would hold the outfit together. Originally I’m from Sarasota Florida so there are not too many fashionable things happening down there, there are a few boutique shops, but someway in that 90-degree heat, I started to develop my own sense of style without knowing it. It would be a super hot day and I’ll wear jeans shorts with leather boots, a long sleeve peasant top and a hat and I just would find ways to be creative and to be original and even if I was going out to dinner I’d made sure to look my best. At 16, my family and I moved here to Atlanta and it was like I found a gold mine, it was such an eye-opener for me! The people the scenery, the culture, the fashion, the creativity just everything really took hold of me. Quickly Atlanta became home to me. I remember feeling passionate about switching styles day to day, creating something out of dated matierals and in that first year of being in Atlanta I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life for sure and that was Fashion Styling. Later on, I began to post my looks/styles on Instagram and sharing my experiences with how I made the look and what inspired me to do this thing that I love, this was before being an Influencer was a thing or before it was as big as it is today. Soon, people started to discover me and requested looks and wanted more content. Now at 25, I have insanely evolved with my style and how I make sure I represent & show my originality with my personal style. All those factors are big to me and that’s why this year I’m starting my own clothing line, it’s so new and fresh, scary, doing something I’ve never done before, but God gave this passion and I’m going to follow it. I feel the reward will be worth it. To some style is just eh, or some people may think it is superficial or it’s a job and nothing more, but to me its another form of art, it’s self-expression and it’s me showing who I am to others. and inspiring others to look, feel and to be confident with themselves and to love themselves because that is how I feel when I wake up in the morning add a good outfit with it and I’m ready.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Listen, there is a reason why the expression is “road to following your dreams” because it’s exactly like a road and there are speed bumps and road stops, maybe a U-turn along the way of any dream. It hasn’t been easy all the time, not everything goes as I planned that’s a struggle and I have found out it’s fine if my plan doesn’t work out how I want it, I’ll just find another way around and make it work. I come to learn that God wouldn’t give me a dream if there wasn’t a way for me to reach that dream. I’ve learned to not let struggles effect me because as mom says “today is not your future!” No matter if I didn’t complete something or if things don’t workout today, it isn’t my final result, it’s not my ending and that’s my advice. Whatever doesn’t work out today just know God wouldn’t give you a dream if he didn’t want you to reach it, you’ll get there. A bad day is only a comma not a period to your life. Keep going.

For the whole piece, heres the link!

http://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-trailblazer-miracle-hines/

I'm just excited to know that the work i've been putting in is finally being noticed, and to recongnized as a Trailblazer?! C'mon it's just letting me know i am on a right path.