Alli is here to make you feel like your best self, and she brings a whole lot of fun to the job. Upbeat, warm, and easy to talk to, she creates a space at Bella Trio Studio at American Tobacco Campus in Downtown Durham that is equal parts safe, educational, and genuinely entertaining. If you love a good conversation, you two are going to have a great time.

She specializes in blonding, balayage, highlights, precision cuts, and curls, and she also does tape-in extensions. Teaching is her favorite part of the work. She loves helping you actually understand your hair, especially if you have spent years unsure how to style it at home. That is why she often recommends a curl confidence styling lesson, because so many people in the curly community were never taught the basics and deserve to be.

Guests count on Alli for thoughtful consultations, real attention to detail, her shampoo and scalp massage, and styling tips that stick. Most of all, they mention how they feel walking out: confident and relaxed.

Here is something she wants every curly guest to hear: curls are perfectly imperfect. They will not look the same every single day, and that is not failure, it is just how curls work. Patience with your hair goes a long way.

Fun facts: Alli loves crafting, especially knitting and cross stitching, is always doing her nails, and never turns down a musical.

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