When Mary Ann was eleven years old, she and her brothers worked in their father's wood and coal business stacking wood and bagging coal.
When she was thirteen, her father asked a man he knew, if she could work in his wife's beauty shop.
On weekends, Mary Ann washed combs and brushes and took rollers out the customers' hair.
She fell in love with the idea of doing hair for a living.
When she graduated high-school she moved an hour away from home to live with her Aunt Mae so she could attend beauty school.
Cosmetology was not offered in high-school when she was coming along.
Mary Ann must have paid close attention
to mixing color because she was like a chemist when it came to getting the results she was looking for.
At the start of her career she worked in a salon where she found herself coming to the rescue when a client's hair color ended up being a color they did not ask for.
Over the years she worked at several beauty salons, building a strong clientele.
Eventually, she branched out and started her own business when her daughter, Zelbra, graduated beauty school and got her cosmetology license.
Mary Ann (Rice) Cullum turned 81 on June 10th, 2022.
She is the owner of M&Z StyleMakers where she and her daughter, Zelbra, are partners in this business.
Mary Ann has four daughters (Selina, Zelbra, Anita and Carla) and five grandchildren (Brenda, Christina, Philip, Tony and Pierce) who are all very happy with her success in doing what she loves for a living.
And on that note, this super short story ends with a quote by a.c. mccants...
"Whether or not you are doing what you love for a living, make time on a regular basis and do what you enjoy. That itself is a gratifying experience."
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