11 Years In The Making
MYAVANA’s anniversary celebration included a hair lab experience where guests could discover the state of their strands through MYAVANA’s proprietary hair AI technology. Together with the hair lab, MYAVANA Co-Founder & CEO Candace Mitchell Harris moderated a panel discussion entitled “Tending To Your Crown,” a conversation with Nicole Mangrum (Oprah’s hair stylist), Johnny Wright (Michelle Obama’s former hair stylist) and on-air personality Jessie Woo who spoke deeply about her struggle with anxiety about wearing and tending to her natural hair. Panelists spoke about what it’s like navigating hair texture, their skilled hair journeys, and what it’s like tending to the crowns of a number of the most influential women of our time.

As the primary Black hair stylist within the White House, Johnny talked about his journey becoming an expert celebrity stylist for the previous first lady. He discussed the whole lot from his feelings around being prepared for the chance and the ability of claiming yes. Nicole spoke about her journey becoming an expert stylist, initially owning her own salon in Chicago where she specialized in exceptional client service and the connections that led her to the chance to work with Oprah.

The discussion ended with an interesting discovery regarding how consumers have lost trust in skilled stylists and the way MYAVANA hopes to reconnect the 2 to assist solve this —through the credibility of science and data.

The Hair That Bonds Us, A Documentary Series
As an honored sponsor of the IBS Powerhouse Pavilion the docu-series takes place at IBS and offers a peek behind the scenes. The five-part docu-series chronicles the founding of Myavana and the corporate’s Twenty first-century transformative mission. With interviews from celebrity stylists, MYAVANA experts and sweetness industry veterans, the series is each moving and informative. View the series here.

Latest Celebrity Ambassadors:

• Actress Gail Bean of renowned FX TV series “Snowfall”
• Actress and on-air personality Jessie Woo known for Dish Nation, Wild n’ Out, Love & HipHop
• Celebrity hair stylist Nicole Mangrum known for clients like Oprah
• Celebrity hair stylist Johnny Wright known for clients like Michelle Obama and Queen Latifah.

ESSENCEFest
Join the brand for meet & greets on the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture on the MYAVANA Hair Lab Booth #8014. Featuring quite a lot of influencers and sweetness experts, guests could have the chance to experience the MYAVANA Lab first-hand.

• Saturday, July 1 at 11:00amET – “Hair, Culture, and Sisterhood” Meet-N-Greet with Gail Bean
• Saturday, July 1 at 1:00pmET – “Being Naturally You” Meet-N-Greet with Johnny Wright, Tiffany Cross, and Brandice Daniel
• Sunday, July 2 at 2:00pmET – Press Conference: Myavana Revolutionizes the Textured Hair Care Industry with HairAI^™, and Premieres Inspiring Docuseries on Black Women in Tech

About MYAVANA
MYAVANA is a Black Female-owned, and operated beauty tech company backed by over a decade of research, development and data. Myavana is disrupting the multi-billion dollar, textured hair care market as Pioneers of HairAI^™ (Artificial Intelligence Hair Strand Evaluation) technology and Scientific Hair Strand Evaluation. Myavana Labs has analyzed over two billion hair strands, making it the world’s largest database of textured hair care data. Myavana couples its personalized, scientific hair evaluation with the corporate’s prescriptive, data-driven, hair product advice suite, of over 3000 commercially available hair products available on the market today which have been ingredient & performance tested,and validated by Myavana for effectiveness on textured hair types and conditions. The Myavan suite of products create a transformational  hair care solution for consumers and an elevated data driven service and retail opportunity for professionals.

By partnering with Myavana’s Consumer Intelligence Data Insights, Hair Product Manufactures can gain insights into textured hair conditions to tell product development needs. As a B2C and B2B solution, Myavana’s Personalized Consumer Intelligence Data is poised to seriously change how hair product purchasing decisions are made by consumers -through data personalization, and illuminate the large data validated opportunity for more targeted textured hair relevant products and solutions by the hair care products industry.

Concerning the founder
Candace Mitchell-Harris founded MYAVANA in beta in 2012 researching and developing  proprietary AI hair care technology that analyzes the variables of hair strands and hair products to provide personalized hair care plans that support healthy hair and hair growth. As a graduate of Georgia Tech, she brings over 17 years of experience in computer science to MYAVANA. Candace is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, WWD Top 50 Beauty Innovator, BET Honors STEM Award winner, Sephora Speed up fellow, and up to date Georgia Tech Computing Hall of Fame inductee. Candace’s work has been featured nationally on CNN, Marie Claire, ESSENCE, Inc. Magazine, Black Enterprise, Business Insider, and more.

About Gail Bean
Gail Mitchell, known professionally as Gail Bean, is an American actress. Bean co-starred within the series Paradise Lost and the film Unexpected. She has also acted in Insecure, Love within the Time of Corona, Atlanta, and Detroiters. She is best known for her portrayal of Wanda Bell on the hit FX TV series Snowfall.

About Jessie Woo
Jessica Woo is an on-air personality actress, musician, content creator, and comedienne. She is a Haitian-Canadian originally hailing from Montréal, Canada – but spent her adolescence in Miami, Florida. She became a viral sensation through her comedic alter ego, Cadouskha Jean-Francois, which catapulted her profession as a red carpet host for BET and media personality.

About Nicole Mangrum
Nicole Mangrum is a Chicago native and renowned hairstylist, artist, and entrepreneur. Her 25+ years of labor as a hair artist has earned her three Make-Up Artist & Hair (MUAHS) Guild Awards nominations.

Nicole’s creative approach to hairstyling, wigs, and extensions has attracted an influence list of clients, which incorporates Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Gayle King, Mellody Hobson, Valerie Jarrett, Sanaa Lathan, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, amongst others.

Her work has been featured in such publications as Vogue, Variety, Vanity Fair, Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, People, Essence, Time, InStyle, Elle India, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has also collaborated with renowned photographers reminiscent of Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, Ruven Afanador, Mario Sorrenti, Phil Poynter, Michal Pudelka, and Herring & Herring. Nicole now resides in California.

About Johnny Wright
Johnny was born and raised in Chicago, IL and got his start within the hair styling world watching his grandmother do press and curls on the front porch as a baby. After working his way through Chicago after which Los Angeles, he spent 8 years as Michelle Obama’s personal hairstylist through the Obama Administration. Since 2019, he’s worked as Tamron Hall’s key hairstylist on her Emmy Award winning eponymous daytime talk show and most recently co-starred in To Catch a Beautician with Tamar Braxton on Vh1. You may also see his work on celebrities like Queen Latifah, Kerry Washington, Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Samira Wiley, to call just a few. His profession spans skilled and artistic accolades reminiscent of creative director for SoftSheen Carson for L’Oreal, HSN appearances, brand ambassadorships, and industry awards. Johnny’s unique success is owed partly to years of mastering styling skills and precision cutting techniques in addition to his business ingenuity and infectious upbeat personality.

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