I wanted to start by saying how appreciative I am for this opportunity. My name is Savannah Brock and when I was first introduced to this scholarship, I wanted to learn more about Amber and her life. While doing this, I learned that she graduated from the same high school I attend now, Fayette County High School. I then realized that not only did we attend the same school, but that she graduated the same year I was born. These are not the only two things we have in common. We both share a love for cosmetology. I have loved this ever since I can remember, but when I first started to realize the specifics of what I loved the most about it was my very first football game. I was a bored little five year old, who wanted to go home for the entire first and second quarter, that was until halftime. I sat and watched as the majorettes put on a show for the crowd and I realized how much I loved their big, curly, perfect hair and their flawless faces of makeup. I wanted to look like those girls. I wanted to be those girls. So from the time I was in second grade till this past football season, majorette has been my everything. I would practice everything it took to be one, including my hair and makeup. The more I did my hair, the more I learned about how it worked and how I could manipulate it into doing something I was envisioning. A similar story goes for makeup, by learning what products worked well with my skin and different techniques to use when applying them. I spent hours of my time practicing on myself or even my friends who never left a sleepover without some leftover, brushed out curls in their hair, or slightly red eyes from makeup remover. By the time I was in sixth grade, I had decided that this was what I wanted to do. This was going to be my career. We grew up hearing “If you do something you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.” This is my love. This is my career that will never make me work a day in my life, because I would do it for free if it means seeing a smile on someone's face after they see themselves. I want to take the love and passion that I have for this and learn as much as I can about it, so I can better give my future clients exactly what they are looking for. I plan to go to the University Academy of Hair and Design in Tuscaloosa so I’m not too far away from home. Then I plan to work in a salon until I can acquire enough clients to eventually own my own business. After I get established my dream is to do weddings, proms, and pageants because that’s my absolute favorite part of this. To fix a girl's hair and makeup in a way that she never thought it could look, and so see her beautiful smile of approval.