ashleyfroberg

Life has lead me in many different directions. I have gone to SCAD, then UH, and then quit college and went to a beauty school to become an Esthetician. 
After SCAD removed their education program I no longer wanted to pay private school tuition only to have to go to another school after graduation. My idea was then to finish my second year at SCAD and move back home and go to UH, a more local university.
I arrived at UH overwhelm. The past to years at SCAD had basically been for nothing. Yes, my credits transferred but didn't count for hardly anything. I was a Junior credit wise but taking Freshman basics classes. I hadn't taken things like US History or Math or Science at SCAD. I had taken classes like Design, Drawing, and Color Theory. My French classes didn't even transfer. I would have to take placement classes for French and retake the last two. I couldn't take hardly any upper level art classes that I needed because all the classes I had taken at SCAD had counted towards lower level classes and I didn't have the prerequisite for the upper level ones. I had paid almost $100k to walk away with almost nothing.
I LOATHED my year at UH. It was one of the worst years ever, between being stuck in Freshmen classes I should of taken two years ago and my boyfriend leaving me and developing cystic acne I had no one to turn too. I was lost. I wanted to quit school and get a job wherever I could find one. 
I was going to give up my dream of being an art teacher and wanting to influence young people to follow their dreams in the art field just like I had done years earlier. My "wonderful" college years would be coming to an unsuccessful end. I wouldn't graduate, wouldn't get a degree, wouldn't live out my dream. 
During all this I had unsuccessfully been trying to treat and cure my acne on a college student budget. I tried all the home remedies I could find on the internet but with no success. My acne was just getting worse and soon I had stared getting scars all over my face. This put me even further into depression, I couldn't even look at myself. I tried covering it up, tried putting all kinds of things on my face. 
Finally I decided to look into careers that I could do to fix my problematic skin. I found this thing called Esthetics. It was a licensed professional who could do facials, chemical peels, and much more. This was my answer. I could go to school to learn about the skin and not only cure my problems but other women and even men who had felt the same way as I did. People who couldn't even stand to look at their own skin. 
I started school last August and finished that next February. I had found a brand that I could get behind. I was preforming treatments on myself with said brand and my face was becoming clearer, smoother, and best of all I felt confident about my skin and myself for the first time in two years.
Out of school I took my state exams and passes. Now I was pressed to find a job. That was hard for me. I had formed a connection with a brand and wanted to keep working with it. After talking with my amazing parents, who had supported me all my life and still do, we decided that I could open my own place up. I could do what I wanted, worked with a brand I believed in and help people.
On the first of June I opened. It has been a struggle. The economy isn't in the best of shape and a lot of people don't have money for the "luxuries" of the spa world. I have kept going though, I have helped a few and I hope to keep helping them. 
I have been down a long and crazy journey, going from a private art school to a public university to a trade school. I have not lost my love for the arts, nor will I ever. The amazing thing about working for myself is I can make time for my art and still keep doing helping people feel comfortable in their skin. I have picked up a love for painting and hope to keep that love going. I have started sewing and would love for it to be able to become a means of extra income one day.
I haven't given up nor do I plan to ever. I have been through the darkest part of my life so far and have come out stronger.

^{So may life has been o crazy lately. I have so much stuff I need to upload and I have so much stuff to do before I go to SCAD! Ugh! I swear there are not enough hours in the day. Lol.
I cant wait to start school at SCAD! I also cant wait to finish building my new computer.}

Going to start classes for the summer at SCAD on Monday. I'm so excited!

^{Today I got a new Canon EOS 5D from my mother for n early birthday gift.
I LOVE my mother so very much.}