The Beauty Business Issue

Founder & Publisher

TK Madison

Before anyone built a following teaching online, she was getting on planes. She has taught lash artistry to hundreds of professionals across the country, created curriculum at Aveda, and run several of her own studio suites. Before thirty-five she was campus director of a cosmetology school.

Twenty years in, she has been featured in print more than once — which is how she knows exactly what it does for a business, and how few of the artists around her have ever had it.

She still works out of a suite in South End. This magazine is about her neighbors.

"The room is small. The work isn't."

Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director

Aisha Nikole

She builds brands and the people behind them. Through Aisha Nikole Communications she works in brand building, purpose and public speaking, guiding people toward what she calls self-mastery — because, as she puts it, "we have to do things different in order to have different."

Her background in media and public relations is what gives Suite Life the right voice — the editorial instinct to tell a story properly, and the publicist’s ear for what will actually carry. Two worlds that rarely sit in the same room, and she works in both. She is also the one who asked the question that organized everything: what problem are we solving?

Suite Life's pulse of beauty, business and culture has a voice because of Aisha Nikole.

"No one is you and that is your power."

Photography Director

Chris Hand

Chris gives life to still images. He finds the angle, the shot, the vibe — time after time. He has a knack for drawing the creative out of a moment, and it translates into scroll-stopping, share-worthy work.

He owns several businesses, including a large-scale event company that has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies — Wells Fargo and Bank of America among them.

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