Daily Inspiration: Meet Patrick Daughenbaugh

Today we’d like to introduce you to Patrick Daughenbaugh.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My goodness! I’ve always had a knack for doing hair, and this goes as far back as when I was like 7yrs old, playing with barbies. However, while my little girlfriends wanted to play house, I was too busy giving Barbie the hair of her dreams! Totally missed put on the house part. But my barbies looked fabulous, that’s for sure. Fast forward to adulthood. I didn’t graduate HS and jump into college like most of my friends did. Instead I was just hustling, trying to find a career on which I could excel, but also make good money. I did EVERYTHING from restaurants to retail, pet sitting to house cleaning and everything in-between. Years passed and I still didn’t have anything going for myself. Fast forward to 2013, I was working at a restaurant and on the weekends away from bussing tables, I was turning myself into zombies using liquid latex, tissues, and makeup. I thought, how cool would it be to make a career out of this and to work in movies! Called a makeup school in Hollywood and they told me to go through cosmetology school first. Makeup took a back seat.

In 2014, my dad moved back to town and needed a place to stay, and while visiting he asked “Patrick, wtf have you need doing with your life”…. basically telling me I need to find a career. So I expressed my interests and recent adventures and I like to say that he duct taped me, threw me in the trunk of the car, and drove me down to Paul Mitchell in Lakewood and signed me up for cosmetology school. Although that’s how it felt, that’s not really how it went down. Lmao. My dad is a great man and was never abusive hahahahaha.

Paul Mitchell promised me makeup, and all I got was hair…. but I fell in love with the craft and makeup took a back seat, AGAIN.

I graduated and went straight into an assistant position where I expanded my knowledge beyond beauty school, for another year, before actually working full time with my own clients. This set me up for success! (Thanks Michelle F)
Fast forward two years, working at an Aveda focus salon slanging hair, still feeling like a piece of me was missing….. I decided to pack up all my junk, and set off to HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA where I “Officially ” attended makeup school for TV and film! At last, all my career dreams have came true! However, that was still half the battle. Building a career from scratch is something that youre never really taught, and instead is accomplished from trial by error. Hollywood was the best, and worst thing to happen to me. Through all trials and tribulations, ive had to develop a glass half full mentality, and understand that nothing is permanent, until it is. Since starting my career, ive worked in movies, fashion and runway, commercial and print, and currently settled down in my own salon suite, slaying long hair clients day in and day out.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Oh noooo. The start was rough. No idea what I wanted to do in life until I was thrown into it.

My biggest challenge was when I moved to Hollywood.

I moved almost sight unseen, with someone who I though was my best friend. We met in beauty school and were the best of pals for almost 5 years, til we moved to Hollywood together. After two short months, we had a fallout and I was kicked out to the streets, only to understand that this was the start of a series of unfortunate events.

We had a fallout because moving to Hollywood was supposed to change our lives for the better, and while that was happening for me, it wasn’t for my friend. They were still caught up in the party scene and nightlife, where I was instead waking up early and exploring the city while working out and exercising. We lost touch and there was some sort of jealousy. Tried to rekindle our friendship, but that was another loss. One including me being set up and gay bashed outside of a bar night. I woke up on the sidewalk with no recollection of where I was or how I got there, and my face was swollen to the size of a grapefruit, so intense that it sealed me eye shut. Still don’t know what happened to this day. Seems like people liked to beat me up in my most vulnerable times because this was just one of 3 assaults that happened on different occasions. Good wake up call though and I am so thankful for my family’s support, even from 1800 miles away. I use my story to define my strength, and that you just gotta dust yourself off and get back to again.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I love both hair and makeup and seek a career in production eventually. But in my day to day, I am a long hair specialist and i work in my own private salon suite located in the Arvada/Westminster area.
Most of my clients have shoulder length or longer and come to me to help maintain their luscious locks while entrusting me to help them grow naturally and healthy, while maintaining integrity and shine! I got into this niche because I had so many clients in my early career coming to me in tears that their stylist doesn’t listen to them, or that they went to get a trim and got a chop instead. So because of that, im always an active listener, and will always be real about what is needed for your hair, without compromising in areas like length and density.

We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
I’ve always said that success is a struggle. And you have to learn to love the struggle first, and then success will follow. I have a long time career, a healthy marriage, a loving family and support system. I believe that to be my success. Success doesn’t always mean the amount of money you have, but the amount of abundance in your life. Its perspective.

Pricing:

• Long haircut $80
• Partial Highlight $165
• Full Highlight $220
• Barber cut $45

Contact Info:

• Website: https://patrickdaughenbaugh.glossgenius.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patrick.micheal.artistry?igsh=MWF6dHpxdnVuYzM1aQ==
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@patrick.micheal.artistry?_t=ZT-8yUtdn1ZxXC&_r=1

Image Credits
Myself 😉