Carly Sparks Owner of Sparks Esthetics

We're not all about the hustle though; there's fun to be had when we dabble in Albuquerque's vibrant dining scene and whimsically debate our ideal celebrity shopping companions at Target. So whether you're a skincare enthusiast or an aspiring entrepreneur, or just in it for the chuckles and candid conversation, this episode promises something for you. Don't forget to connect on social, where I, Thaddeus Shade, am always ready to keep the dialogue going. Until next time, keep dreaming big and caring for your skin—it's the only one you've got!

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Speaker 1 0:09

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Speaker 2 0:39

That shade. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shea. This is Seasonable Cloud. I am sitting up here with Carly Sparks, the owner of Carly. Oh wait, sparks Aesthetics. I'm sorry, I'm an old man. I've been going through a lot today. Sparks Aesthetics, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3 0:58

I'm doing good. How are you?

Speaker 2 1:01

It was some work today. It was some work setting up, but I'm pretty good. How are you? No talk to me. How are you doing? It's a Wednesday. You know what I'm saying? We're inside a well-seasoned right now. How are you feeling?

Speaker 3 1:11

I'm good, I'm ready to eat something.

Speaker 2 1:15

We should have got. I talked to you about getting the Berry Berry, the Berry Berry Bowls, and I did not do that and I let you down completely on that. But I feel like afterwards we can get a bowl and we'll have a good time.

Speaker 2 1:29

Of course I'm gonna turn you up here a little bit. This is my shit, so we can just talk and do whatever we want. This is what I do. This is how it sounds when people hear it. I'm just gonna turn you up like that Bam doo, doo, doo, doo doo. Alright, there we go. You're here because basically I see you're a business owner. You do your thing right. I am a guy that has no clue about that world, but I know women bask in it, they dive in it, they love it. Can you talk to me about what your business is?

Speaker 3 2:04

Okay, so I own Sparks Aesthetics in Old Town, Scottsdale, and I specialize in skincare waxing facials.

Speaker 2 2:16

Those are the three mains.

Speaker 3 2:18

Three mains. I do lash lifts, brow laminations, things like that too, but I specialize in skin and Brazilians mostly.

Speaker 2 2:25

Really. Now, okay, the Brazilian. Before we started, I told you I'm a tad bit slow, so you're gonna tell me what the Brazilian is.

Speaker 3 2:36

So the Brazilian is. Let's think of a way that I would not.

Speaker 2 2:43

You could be as free? Yeah, you could. How do you need to break it down? You motorwass.

Speaker 3 2:46

So that is the full wax on your private parts, gotcha.

Speaker 2 2:51

Women can do it.

Speaker 3 2:52

Women can do it a man can do it. Yeah, it would be a manzillion.

Speaker 2 2:55

Really.

Speaker 3 2:56

Isn't it painful, though it's uncomfortable? It's uncomfortable, but beauty is pain, yeah so is that?

Speaker 2 3:02

what's going on? Can you say that to a guy and he'll buy that? Because we are strong, we can go into the jungle and we can wrestle with lions and bears, but I don't know about the wax and how I might come out with tears. So you're telling me I'm gonna be alright.

Speaker 3 3:18

I mean once you have your results and you're silky smooth for weeks. It's worth it. I mean ten minutes of discomfort, weeks being hairless and no razor bumps.

Speaker 2 3:29

You know it's quick, it's quick too. Okay, so as we continue, because I want to come back to the guy, part of that. But what goes into getting into your business? How did you get into it? What made you get into it?

Speaker 3 3:43

So for me, I always wanted to be in an industry where I was catering to people. Like, I'm a very caring, selfless person and I wanted to do something that was catering to others. But I was gonna originally go into nursing. But I'm a huge germaphobe, so nursing just wouldn't have been a good fit for me. Shout out to all the nurses that was a very hard job.

Speaker 2 4:05

They're superheroes.

Beauty Industry Career Transition and Relocation

Speaker 3 4:06

Yeah, for sure, Superheroes, that is a hard job, y'all are amazing, but that just was not the right fit for me. So the next thing was the beauty industry.

Speaker 3 4:14

You, know, and I've always been super into that and it just came naturally to me and I sat on it for a few years and still like, yeah, you know, I'm very I don't make just rash decisions Like I had to really make sure it's what I wanted to do. And when I figured it out, I went to school and I was like you know what, this is gonna be my thing and you know what.

Speaker 2 4:34

What was the schooling like? How many hours Was it real work? Did you have to put that work in?

Speaker 3 4:39

Yeah. So aesthetic schooling is, I think, about 600 hours you have to complete to get a license. Yeah, but a lot of it you don't learn in school, like it's trial and error of learning outside of school. Nice, they teach you all the basics. You know things you need to know of. You know biology, chemistry, things of that sort, Right, but as far as working on a client like, that's kind of something you just have to learn through experience, you know.

Speaker 2 5:07

How long were you in school?

Speaker 3 5:09

I think schooling was about six months.

Speaker 2 5:11

Six months.

Speaker 3 5:12

It was not too long, it was like three full days a week.

Speaker 2 5:14

Did you have that dread? Because you, you know kid, you know Elementary, junior, high, high school. If you went to college, did you go to college?

Speaker 3 5:25

For two weeks I went to college.

Speaker 2 5:26

That's what I'm saying. So then you get out of the school and you don't have to go to school anymore. You're an adult, you can function in an adult world. You know to go back to school. Was that a little bit of a drag where you're like I don't know if I really want to do that again I feel like, yeah, school is never really my thing.

Speaker 3 5:44

I am a very smart individual, but I feel like I'm a very street smart individual, Like I'm not a studying person, I'm not a, just no Like. My attention span is not there. So the fact that I would have to go back to school to do aesthetics, I was like, okay, am I really going to take it serious and do it, because I didn't want to half-ass it you know like it had to be done all the way. Excuse my language, but I have to be.

Speaker 2 6:10

Oh shit, it had to be done, right, you know?

Speaker 3 6:13

so that's why I sat on it for so long, because I was like I'm not going to put the money out for it and then just not finish. You know, because I like to kind of hop around before of things that I wanted to do and I couldn't decide what my thing was going to be. So I was like, okay, I'm going to make sure that it's this before I get started.

Speaker 2 6:31

It's always a bit of a process to figure out what you're going to do in life. Yeah, it's always. You try a little here. You try a little here. You know what I'm saying. People, you know, they find it immediately. Others, you know, wander, wander the world and all of a sudden they land on. You know what? I am going to train monkeys for a living. You know what I'm saying. That's what I am going to do.

Speaker 3 6:51

I'm going to do wax scooches. Wax scooches Same thing.

Speaker 2 6:58

Carly Sparks is in the building. We're going to get some claps here. Thank you, I still like the word. I like the word Gucci. It still brings me joy. You know what I'm saying? Okay, wait, wait, okay, okay. So you did your schooling right, you got in, got your education and for aesthetics, I'm getting that right. Right, because I had to ask my girl about it. It was a whole thing. I think she's not feeling well, but I think she was, you know, healthy. She would have laughed at me because I was scared. But getting out of school, right, did you know you wanted to get right into owning your own business or did you work with somebody before you started to have your own business?

Speaker 3 7:44

You know, actually I knew kind of I wanted to open up my own thing. But originally I was thinking I'll work for somebody to kind of get the ropes and learn the industry and then I'll open my own spot. But after being in school I decided because I'm originally from New Mexico, so I was back home.

Speaker 2 8:05

Now you've messed it up. Now I'm just going to hop right into it. Remember what you were saying. I'm going to force you to remember what you were saying. New Mexico. Now I'm going to be a nerd right now. Okay, new Mexico. You know why New Mexico means a lot to me. You know why?

Speaker 3 8:18

Breaking Bad. Yes, I've never even seen Breaking Bad.

Speaker 2 8:22

And that's the end of the show. There's no more reason to even talk because you have now dislocated my heart and it's nothing else to even talk about anymore. But yes, breaking Bad is near and dear to this fucker's heart right here, and it means so much to me. So, okay, go ahead. You start about to use New Mexico. Keep going.

Speaker 3 8:39

Yes, no, no, but I was in New Mexico when I was in school and the second I clocked out for my 600 hours. The next day I packed up my car and moved out here.

Speaker 2 8:49

Really, yeah, you had no, but not a grandma or auntie.

Speaker 3 8:52

No, I'm out here by myself.

Speaker 2 8:54

You just came out here. Yeah, Taking risk. How old were you at the?

Speaker 3 8:58

time I was 20, oh the health of my. Now I was 22.

Speaker 2 9:04

So yesterday got you, okay, got you, there, we go got you Two years ago, three years ago, you moved out here. That's a nice gamble you took.

Speaker 3 9:11

Yeah, thank you, I tried. You got a bet on yourself.

Speaker 2 9:13

You really do. You feel like it worked out for you.

Speaker 3 9:15

So far yeah, Of course it did. Of course it did. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 9:19

Okay, you were wait, so you bet on yourself coming down here from New Mexico. You get out here, you land, you're in Phoenix, learning terrain right, moving to a new city what that? Feel like to you. It was scary yeah.

Speaker 3 9:35

I'm not a big risk taker. So I mean I say I'm not, but I guess I am in a way, you know, because I keep taking them.

Speaker 2 9:42

There you go right.

Speaker 3 9:44

But yeah, it was scary, you know, not having like a game plan and just kind of going off of a whim.

Speaker 1 9:50

Right.

Speaker 3 9:51

But I knew that I'd make something shake, like that's who I am, like I'll make something out of nothing. So I was just kind of seeing what that would be.

Speaker 2 9:58

Were there any other cities on your list?

Speaker 3 10:01

Yes.

Speaker 2 10:02

What was on there? Talk to me what was on the list of movie too. What was on there?

Speaker 3 10:07

So I was thinking, maybe like Atlanta.

Speaker 2 10:09

Really.

Speaker 3 10:10

Chicago or Houston.

Speaker 2 10:11

Chicago or Houston, those are all not bad. Those are not bad places at all. What stopped you?

Speaker 3 10:18

Honestly, like I'm from New Mexico, I grew up in New Mexico, I was there my whole life. I'm very close with my family and all my family is back there, so I think for me like taking that fully.

Speaker 2 10:33

You can't hear that, they can't hear that. But just know that I am setting up TikTok to go live right now and we just had a blast of some crazy music. So that was interesting. That was very interesting. I don't. I don't change anything, I keep everything in here. It's more fun that way.

Speaker 3 10:50

It's okay, I love it keeps me on my toes Right.

Speaker 3 10:53

Alright, keep going, though don't don't you know, don't miss me, yeah, I just I wasn't ready to be that far from my family you know I have a younger brother and I'm super involved in his life, like he's still pretty young so I didn't want to be too far to where. It was like a trek going back and forth Like I'm still close, it's an hour flight to go home. So I just was like you know I knew a couple girls out here and you know we were friends. I was like I'll just move out there and it's close and the weather's nice.

Speaker 1 11:22

Nice.

Speaker 3 11:23

Chicago. I was like, okay, I don't want the weather, I'm not a cool person, it makes me irritated. Yeah, so that was out in Atlanta I had. I didn't know anything about Atlanta so I was like maybe I should not.

Speaker 2 11:36

You weren't gonna mess with it. Huh, you're just like I didn't. You didn't have nobody out there and no.

Speaker 3 11:41

Uh-uh. But everyone's like, oh, you would thrive out in Atlanta. And I'm like, oh, sell me a dream.

Speaker 2 11:46

I actually heard I've heard that myself that if you get out to Atlanta, you will have some success. Nah, and I was like you, I don't know. You know what I'm saying. I've gotten to LA a lot. I don't know if you've gotten to LA a lot. Yeah, did you think about?

Speaker 3 12:00

LA at all. Yeah, I mean, when I was younger I was like I'm gonna move to LA and you know, the older you get, I'm like LA to me is overrated and it's expensive as hell.

Speaker 2 12:09

They're gonna be, they're. You're gonna have some people mad at you.

Speaker 3 12:11

I know you're gonna be mad, I mean, if you're from there like I know so many people who are from there and raised there and yeah. I mean, I don't know what kind of story, but like if you're just, you know, reaching for something, going LA blindly, like I think that's, it takes a lot of guts, yeah for sure. And a lot of money and I was like that's a game I'm not going to make. Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:28

I was going out to be a Calvin Klein model and, as you see, and I didn't work out.

Speaker 3 12:33

It didn't work out. I thought that's what I was going to do too, and I was like, hmm, I'm going to work out, so you get here.

Speaker 2 12:40

I was asking did you work for anybody when you got here in the city?

Speaker 3 12:44

So I had like little jobs.

Speaker 2 12:46

Well, how about this? When you started, when you got done with school and you were like, ok, I'm done with school, did you feel already that you wanted to have your own business, or did you want to go get some some skin in the game first?

Speaker 3 13:00

as far as like trying, you know, trying what you learned, you know, you know, I thought at first I would work for someone and start my business, so I'm going to do a twofer type situation, but I ended up having to. When I moved out here I had to get all my licensing and my stuff transferred over for the state of Arizona, and that took a little longer.

Speaker 2 13:23

It was a headache. Was it a headache?

Speaker 3 13:24

It was a huge headache. So the state board is a nightmare to mess with. You know, you're in the industry, you know. But yeah, it took forever. So I ended up working like other little jobs that was not on the game plan to survive, which?

Speaker 2 13:39

you have one of those jobs you really hate it, though. Which was there one? You just couldn't stand.

Speaker 3 13:44

You know I worked for at Sephora. Oh, really yeah, and it was. It was a retail job, you know. So some people are built for that. Props to them because retail is a lot yeah. I am not, Couldn't do it. I mean, I did it because you know you got to, you got to eat. Yeah, I'm making my day, but yeah, the second, I could get out of it what was wrong, like just the environment or the dealing with people, or yeah, it's so weird because, like I deal with people for a living Right.

Speaker 3 14:09

I love it, but like it's a different type of you know clocking, clock out vibes. I'm just not, not really into that, yeah.

Speaker 2 14:19

You meant to be your own boss, which you are right now. Yeah, so you felt like you could go work for somebody and start your business, and you got everything transferred over. Yeah, what was the final? Like you know? Ok, now I am going to start Sparks aesthetics.

Speaker 3 14:36

You know, the final little straw. For me, I think it was just like taking the leap, like I'm very much so, like a cautious person, like I always joke that I'm safety Steve, like I don't make safety Steve.

Speaker 2 14:51

Where is that? Coming from who says safety, steve I think my mom called me that one. Safety Steve, Like everyone's like you will get a T-shirt that says safety Steve. I've never even heard of that. Hold on, hold on my guys here. Craig vision have you ever heard of safety Steve? That's got to be like a T-shirt. It's got to be like a kids TV show on PBS.

Speaker 1 15:12

I don't know.

Men's Grooming Services and Self-Care

Speaker 2 15:14

It sounds like a good idea. The socket, you can get shocked, but yeah.

Speaker 3 15:20

Don't run into the burning building.

Speaker 2 15:21

There you go, safety, steve Got you.

Speaker 3 15:24

But yeah, like I, just I would have waited and, waited, and waited until the right time. Like there is no right time, like you just have to take the leap, and a lot of credit really goes to my late boyfriend cream, because he was the one that really motivated and pushed me. Like there's no right time, like there's no path that will be laid out for you to do it, like you just have to take the risk and do it. You know, so it was really him that motivated me to do it.

Speaker 2 15:50

A lot of the times you have it in you to do your own like. You want to go do your own thing, but a lot of people I feel like kind of live. If you have like a regular job or something, they live in the safety net. Right, they live like I don't want to mess that up. I need that check next week. Whatever the case may be, I don't want.

Speaker 2 16:09

I'm going to try to do both, but sometimes you just got to push it all the way in and then there's somebody who helps you push all your chips in and I feel like somebody's always got somebody. You know what I'm saying there, whether you've already started the business and it's running, but maybe it's not doing as well, and they want to tap out and they got somebody on their side like no, don't do that, just keep going. So everybody has their, their earthly guardian angel that can help push them forward and move forward Absolutely. So I'm going to jump back to to this men in waxing, because again I want you to repeat the things that you do for your. That's it he. So what about a man's million? She does, what are you? She said the Brazilian, the Brazilian waxes. She talked about the man's. I'm never, I would, I can't, I can't do it. You know what I'm saying. I feel like, freddie, you get paid for it more, right? I'm so, I'm so scared, you know, I couldn't.

Speaker 2 17:08

But quick, I'm quick, you just like a look at the camera and I want you to sell it to the men, because I mean we, like they, got man's scape. I mean, listen, I got the tools, I don't fuck around.

Speaker 3 17:19

You know I'm saying scape, like you get itchy.

Speaker 2 17:22

OK, this is like the shave Right.

Speaker 3 17:25

You know, the hair grows back, it's itchy, it's uncomfortable. When you wax you're ripping from the root, so there's no, use the word ripping, you are OK it comes out from. Yeah, ok, I got you, Then it's going to grow back and it comes in smoother, smaller, you know, uncomfortable. So that's the main thing. I know a lot of people that I've met, male wise, that wax are like athletes of some sort.

Speaker 2 17:48

Really.

Speaker 3 17:48

Like swimmers or. I did hear swimmers do that Like that is more like clientele, that I've had guys that don't really you know, that are just random, that want to manzily and I haven't necessarily experienced, but you know some, some.

Speaker 2 18:02

So that's the actual name of it is a manzily.

Speaker 3 18:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:07

So like it's on a on a sheet.

Speaker 1 18:11

Or it's just like the trade.

Speaker 2 18:12

Or it's just like the hidden At trade. I don't know if it's you know, but yeah that's. But you do recommend it. You do recommend. Yeah. I mean I trust you because you in the business and you killing it. So I 100 percent trust you and if I could convince myself, you know what I'm saying I may even one day take a journey to that. So what are your services that you offer? What is the most popular?

Speaker 3 18:36

I think the most popular that I'm doing right now would be facials, so skincare, and the Brazilian is my. I do full body waxing, so you know lots of brows underarms, but the Brazilian is like my every day.

Speaker 2 18:50

See, I told you I'm going to talk to you like I'm a cave man. So we're talking facials. What is the facial do? Ok, so it involved what you got going in there. What's what's right?

Speaker 3 18:59

So a facial is a service to help you maintain what you're doing at home. So a lot of people who don't have any sort of routine or take care of their skin in any way. I recommend starting there with some sort of home care routine. You know, if you talk to a professional like like myself, I can help you with that.

Speaker 1 19:20

Right.

Speaker 3 19:21

But yeah, it is going to be like a 40 60 thing. So 60 percent is going to be at home that you do on your own, 40 percent will be with a professional, like every four weeks doing a facial every four weeks Got you. So that's like. The recommended amount of time, like every four weeks, is maintenance for your skin.

Speaker 2 19:39

Got you.

Speaker 3 19:40

Like people who don't do any sort of maintenance at home.

Speaker 2 19:42

Who just put cold water on their face Wash with the cold water and the dirty towel.

Speaker 3 19:47

The facial once a month is not going to like help you much, you know, right Right. Right so, but it is like a very relaxing, calming self care Like yeah, what is the mood walking in for the facial?

Speaker 2 19:58

What do you have? Like low lights? Is it shot in the background? What's the mood like when you walk in?

Speaker 3 20:02

So I have, you know, the low lights, the candles. I have a little like oil diffuser. I try to set the mood, you know, of how I would want to relax, you know.

Speaker 2 20:12

Right.

Speaker 3 20:13

But then I do normally like the little R&B slow vibes in the background.

Speaker 2 20:18

Just give me one record is running. Give me one record is running right when I walk through the door for the facial.

Speaker 3 20:23

I got to play, you got to play, it was getting one record that you want.

Speaker 2 20:26

If you had to imagine, you know, kim Kardashian is walking through the door and she getting the facial done, and then you need to have that record, that's going to be. That's really going to set the mood. Ok, what record you going? What's going to be spending in the background?

Speaker 3 20:40

I feel like either Alina Baraz, I don't know who that is, but it sounds, sounds good, she's good, look her up.

Speaker 2 20:44

Just tell me to put OK, I'm going to look her up, OK some shade maybe, sir.

Speaker 3 20:49

I like some Sir, ok. Ok, so it depends. Like, if you want like the Wufsa vibes, I've got that to like. I let each client kind of pick their own playlist.

Speaker 2 20:58

Oh no, how long is the facial take?

Speaker 3 21:00

So I've got a couple options. Normally about 50 minutes, but then I have 30 minute lunchtime facial too, and then a longer 70 minute facial as well.

Speaker 2 21:10

Do you do a lot.

Speaker 3 21:11

of women come get the lunchtime when they just pop in and yeah, I feel like if they do the 30 minutes normally with other services, so like if they are getting waxed or you know, like they'll throw in a 30 minute facial but the most popular one is the the Lux, which is the 70 minute one.

Speaker 2 21:27

Can we talk about what's in the face, like what are you putting on my, like I walk in or I bring my girl with me? What's going on in the face?

Speaker 3 21:34

OK, so we're going to start that was coming.

Speaker 2 21:36

See, I told you I'm a caveman, I'm trying to understand. I want everybody else to understand.

Speaker 3 21:40

OK, I love it. I'm explaining like the ins and outs, I love it. So we start with a deep cleanse. So that'll be like washing your face, but professional style. So you'll get like to a double cleanse, what we call it, so you'll be nice and clean.

Speaker 2 21:55

It ain't like mine. I'll be in there listening to ghetto boys and I being. I just got some stuff burning my eyes and facial as I shit and I just get it done. So I got you yeah not like that A legit professional professional double cleanse.

Speaker 3 22:07

So you can't go wrong with that. So we get all the you know must and crust off so we can start with a clean surface.

Speaker 2 22:15

That's what you got the most, and the crust Must and the crust Everybody got a little musk and crust and go back and then you know we'll exfoliate.

Speaker 3 22:24

So, whatever your skin based needs are like, we could do a chemical exfoliation, which would be. Like chemical a chemical exfoliation will not be like a physical. So you know when. You know when I say exfoliation it sounds like a scrub. Yeah something like so a chemical will be like a liquid, so you won't feel a physical exfoliation but, it'll be like still penetrating the skin.

Speaker 2 22:49

OK, got you In some way so physical versus chemical.

Speaker 3 22:52

There you go, there's. There's something you want now.

Speaker 2 22:54

Keep, keep your mind, I'm about to pop. I'm about to pop in. So I had a jalapeno facial at one time. Is that, is that's real right? I had that. It was a jalapeno facial and it burned. Well, she's on the sheet. It was a jalapeno and I don't know if that's that's not real. Did she just put some stuff on my face and had like, she went back, I got some jalapeno popper juice and just put it. Is that what happened?

Speaker 3 23:17

I mean I personally have not heard of the jalapeno. You ain't hearing the jalapeno? I don't offer that.

Speaker 2 23:21

She was dancing around me and stuff. No, I'm just playing, but I did get a jalapeno. I did get a jalapeno facial. Now I'm terrified of what the lady did to me, but I feel like, yeah, yeah, we exfoliation of some sort.

Speaker 3 23:37

And then you know the mask, which is everyone loves the mask. I mean it's so relaxing to just have the little brushes on your face and it's calming, it's like the best feeling.

Speaker 2 23:46

That's cool.

Speaker 3 23:47

And then some, you know, massage, shoulder decklute, facial massage will help with drainage of your lymphatic system and puffiness anti-aging. It's very good relaxing. So, not like you know. Full body massage.

Speaker 2 24:01

Right, the face is yeah, so what do you? So, as far as somebody needing to keep that routine, does it help them stay young, look young? Is that part of that process? When it comes to the facial, because I'm going to go through all these things and the services that you provide, you're going to talk in depth about these. I want to learn as much as possible.

Speaker 3 24:19

Okay, yeah, I got you. Yeah, so basically it is a very your skin is your largest organ, so you're wanting to take care. Yeah, that's my back, so you want to take care of it, and it does help with how you age you know, how you take care of yourself, like if you never put on sunscreen, you have a higher chance of skin cancer and all these other things.

Speaker 2 24:41

This is how I jump in. So so I'm blackety, black, black people need sunscreen, that's what. I heard. But see, but on God's book I didn't have to put this. That's what my great-grandma, my great-grandma, you ain't got to worry about, no, cause I was already protected by the juice of the black. I didn't know it, but you saying I still need to put that.

Speaker 3 24:59

You got that good melanin, but you still need the sunscreen. Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 25:03

All right, keep going this. More knowledge I'm learning, yeah.

Speaker 3 25:05

There you go, but I feel like that's, it's like a cultural thing that black people are not taught Like that. You do need sunscreen.

Speaker 2 25:11

For sure I agree, it's just now being a thing that people are starting to say that.

Speaker 3 25:16

So I just feel like knowledge is power, like all we can do is educate people and it's just about protecting yourself. I appreciate it. Nobody wants to come to our city. We were going to go to Hawaii.

Speaker 2 25:27

Yeah, we were going to, I'm going to cut you off. We were going to go to Hawaii and then I was told that I needed some sunscreen and I was like I don't need sunscreen. I was like, no, you're going to Hawaii, that's not going to get some sunscreen. I was like I don't need no sunscreen. That's what I'm saying. Look at my skin, you know what I'm saying. But then I was put on. So yes, yes. Brothers and sisters need sunscreen. Got you.

Speaker 3 25:50

So I will be the one to preach that, that everyone needs it. If you got skin, you need sunscreen.

Speaker 2 25:55

There you go.

Speaker 3 25:56

But yeah, it's just very important to take care of your skin. It is how you age, right? So for women mostly you know a lot of men I feel like don't think about the aging effects physically until they age.

Speaker 2 26:08

Right.

Speaker 3 26:09

And they're like what can I do to look younger? But like women were just taught from you know as an infant, like youth and try to keep youth and beauty. And you know that's like pushed on.

Speaker 2 26:19

Also seems like a lot of pressure. Yeah, it's a little sad.

Speaker 3 26:23

I mean for me. I don't know, I'm in the industry so it's different, but I feel like it's just keeping your skin healthy and everyone ages. Aging is natural, it's inevitable, yeah, and it's just making sure you age gracefully and healthy, and you know, there's no way you can stop it, you know.

Speaker 2 26:39

For sure. Yeah, that's nice coming from a 25 year old. So you see what I did there. Next on your list, I know you got the Brazilian. I heard we talked about the Brazilian but, there was something in the middle. What was the? You said the facials, and then it was something in the Brazilian, and then there was one that I actually sent my lady to, and because I want to know about the middle one that we just I was just talking about, but it was a oh- but J Shull there it is.

Speaker 2 27:11

That's a real thing. Yeah, that's a real thing.

Beauty Services and Business Start-Up

Speaker 3 27:15

It is and I'm. They're super popular. I do them all the time.

Speaker 2 27:21

So you know they're all like what is a vagacial cost.

Speaker 3 27:23

So you know you're not going to be able to stop it. Stop it, yes. What is a? What is a? What is a vagacial cost? So every place you go is different. There's like an average for per state, like if you look up like what is a?

Speaker 3 27:39

vagacial cost, like in Arizona. You'll probably get like 80 to 120, like around that Okay, 60 to 120 in that realm, and then you'll see how they do it and what you know their service entails. But for me, I do the full Brazilian wax and then there's like an exfoliation process. So it's just like your face, like your skin on your area. Yeah, you want it smooth. Right, you want that nice Brazilian, you want to take care of it, right? It's like literally a facial for your vagina.

Speaker 2 28:09

Really Wow.

Speaker 3 28:11

Yeah. So they keeps it to pop and then they really come in.

Speaker 2 28:15

They come in by the flocking in there.

Speaker 3 28:18

Yeah, all yelling.

Speaker 2 28:20

Wow, it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 28:26

But it is a real thing.

Speaker 2 28:27

So is that like a secret menu, like on Dutch pros, like you got to? You know you got to go to the code.

Speaker 1 28:35

I'm dead.

Speaker 3 28:36

No, it's on my regular service menu.

Speaker 2 28:38

Oh, nice Okay.

Speaker 3 28:39

Anyone can get it.

Speaker 2 28:40

Okay.

Speaker 3 28:41

Vagajals for all.

Speaker 2 28:42

Got you Vagajals again. Give me the cause. I want to know I'm missing one. What was the list of things, you, your services, you offer?

Speaker 3 28:48

So facials.

Speaker 2 28:50

Got you.

Speaker 3 28:50

Waxing.

Speaker 2 28:51

Got you.

Speaker 3 28:52

Brow laminations.

Speaker 2 28:53

Right.

Speaker 3 28:53

And lash lifts.

Speaker 2 28:55

And lash lifts. Okay, the lash lifts.

Speaker 3 28:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:00

What's what's what's a lash lift.

Speaker 3 29:01

So a lash lift is basically a perm for you, a perm Basically. But you know, hold on A perm for your lashes, but your natural lashes they're just going to kind of perm them so they stay straight and curled. So it looks like you have like your lashes curled naturally so they look a little more vibe of a like you just woke up like that. Yeah, yeah, kind of like that, but no, no extensions. So it's like using your natural lashes, so enhancing your natural beauty.

Speaker 2 29:30

Really.

Speaker 3 29:31

Okay.

Speaker 2 29:32

So you don't put no soul glow on there and that like that.

Speaker 2 29:38

Do you know what soul glow is? No, okay, okay. So what I'm going to do is, now that I said that, what's going to happen is you're going to see this video and I'm going to input the soul glow commercial and you're going to. You're going to find out what soul glow is that way. But you said perm. I know soul glows Jericho juice, but you said perm and it just fuck, cause I don't want no permits for the head. I didn't know the perm was getting with the eye lashes.

Speaker 3 30:02

It's just chemicals, so I got you. You know, maybe I shouldn't say a perm, but it lifts them with chemicals that may be chemicals that basically you use for hair or for anything like, and it lifts them up. So they're nice and curled and up and ready to go.

Speaker 2 30:18

Is there some like, some benefits to like, health benefits to it, or just more of like looking more aesthetic, yeah, aesthetically pleasing.

Speaker 3 30:27

Like every woman wants to wake up and just be ready to go, you know so the less maintenance you have requires more services that prolong your maintenance and not getting ready every day.

Speaker 2 30:39

If you got, you got, you got you the more services.

Speaker 3 30:41

you do that require less every day, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 30:44

When you were looking up the business or starting your own business. I know you had to do some research. This is the money making market.

Speaker 3 30:53

Huh, very much so.

Speaker 2 30:55

Yeah.

Speaker 3 30:56

The beauty industry is. There's some coins in there and you just got to know how to get it.

Speaker 2 31:01

We like to call it duckets, but I'll take coins to conduct it. So now we're going to jump into you, basically getting into saying, okay, how did you come up with a Sparks aesthetics?

Speaker 3 31:12

Okay, so Sparks aesthetics came because I come from a very hardworking background of business owners and my father's business uses our last name, sparks.

Speaker 1 31:29

Nice.

Speaker 3 31:30

So I wanted to think of a way to kind of carry that on, yeah, so I like. Sparks Enterprises Nice.

Speaker 2 31:38

I don't lie, it sounds like something from Star Trek, but I like it a lot. I like it a lot yeah. Contracting painting like construction, yeah, nice.

Speaker 3 31:47

So that's obviously not the business I'm in. So I was like, okay, how can we spin it? But keep the Sparks, because you know that's kind of my legacy that I want to keep on. So I was like okay, Sparks aesthetics, because I'm in aesthetics.

Speaker 2 32:02

So it just kind of works, it flows. It's beautiful business name, thank you. Did your pops help you in any way when it comes to any side of the business side? The paperwork LLC. Did he help you at all, or is that all you?

Speaker 3 32:15

We're working on that.

Speaker 2 32:16

Oh, okay, got you, got you, got you, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 32:20

Paperworks being done.

Speaker 2 32:21

Okay, got you, but that requires a lot of paperwork. It does.

Speaker 3 32:25

It's a pain in the booty, it's a pain in the butthole it is, but yeah, it's nice to have a business owner that's been in the game for a long time to give you those kind of pointers and know what needs to get done.

Speaker 2 32:37

Definitely.

Speaker 3 32:38

It's nice to have someone because I mean it's. It's a lot of steps, of things that you have to do.

Speaker 2 32:42

It's very much a headache. You know your location. Should I do it to you, Cause I know you had a hard time the first time? Do you remember? Should I do it to you?

Speaker 3 32:51

It's off drink water boulevard.

Speaker 2 32:52

But what's okay? What's the address?

Speaker 3 32:55

Oh look the struggle is there. Hold on, I got it.

Speaker 2 32:59

You got it Okay.

Speaker 3 33:02

Yeah, Cue the cue the music in the background. 3229. Oh, nope. 3295. North drink water boulevard Okay, Okay, that's, that's my home address, so I don't. Yeah, I got a question for you, random, if you use, say you go to jail.

Speaker 2 33:22

I'm not saying you go into jail for anything great. Maybe use out this wild night you elbowed somebody. They had to take you in and just get you chill out a little bit. Could you remember like a friend or a parents number to call?

Speaker 3 33:32

them. Come get you fried, right, I'm done. I'm done for.

Speaker 2 33:35

We don't, nobody remembers any numbers anymore, we just kind of, you know I don't have to.

Speaker 3 33:39

I know my mom's number, I know my dad's number and. I know my granny's number, that's it.

Speaker 2 33:43

That's it.

Speaker 3 33:45

And that's cause I would you know when you're younger at home and you call your mom at work.

Speaker 2 33:48

Oh for sure, and you know, Wait, are you telling me your mom still has the same?

Speaker 3 33:51

number from when you were young. They have the same numbers Really their whole lives.

Speaker 1 33:54

My grandma still has the same number. Yeah, I still know it, but that's like the only only ones.

Speaker 3 33:59

But if I go to jail, my dad's going to leave me there.

Speaker 2 34:02

Really Tough love Okay. My mom would have done the same thing she would have done the same thing. Tell him you got to call me when you get out. I don't know why you calling me right now. I got to go back to sleep.

Speaker 3 34:14

He always told me that, like be careful, cause if you. If something happens, you're going to figure it out. I'm like, okay, safety Steve, and there's and there you know safety, steve, it's got to be a construction sugar construction worker shirt that has safety, steve, and he's got like a caution sign.

Speaker 2 34:33

Yeah, the caution sign on there. And he's got like a little what's the, what's the things that Craig was vision, what's the thing that you carry, the, the, the. They write stuff on. You know a clipboard, clipboard. They got a clipboard and he's got a hard hat and he walking around you know what I'm saying and he's like you got to be careful, those things will get.

Speaker 2 34:50

That's how I go to work every day. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, oh, that's how I work every day actually. Yeah, yeah, with the clipboard In the hard hat, in the hard hat for you know to take, I got you. Okay, need the hard hat for the face? Okay, got you. So, yeah, so you found your location. How'd you?

Speaker 3 35:11

find your location, so I lucked out with my location. I originally started renting, sharing and renting a room from one of my now great friends, Larissa. Shout out to the Skincare Sensor.

Speaker 2 35:25

Skin, the Skincare Sensor.

Speaker 3 35:27

Well, the Skin Sensor, excuse me, yes, skin.

Speaker 2 35:28

Sensor okay.

Speaker 3 35:30

But we were sharing a room and that's when I first started gaining some clientele, working a couple days a week in her spot, and I got lucky that I found through connections of you know, you know, you know someone. You know you know, like I know, of this rental.

Speaker 2 35:46

Very Italian. You know, I know somebody, he got me, he plugged me in. Yeah, he took care of me.

Speaker 3 35:53

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 35:57

Oh, safety Steve. We got, we got confirmation. There's a real Safety Steve. There's a real Safety Steve. And look, there's a real Safety Steve. Oh, my goodness, he's legit and he looks like what I thought, but as a, as a, as a Muppet, he looked like a Muppet. He's in. He'll definitely tell on everybody. He has no problem, he snitches oh shit. Y'all got a Gio, oh shit. Last one, oh shit. Okay, Where's the oh uh?

Speaker 3 36:26

yes, you know a guy who knows a guy and I lucked out with a great rental for a great price. That's cool, and he did a little TLC.

Speaker 2 36:36

So you know how was that TLC journey?

Speaker 3 36:39

It was a journey.

Speaker 2 36:41

Really.

Speaker 3 36:42

Yeah, I got really lucky with a great landlord who was like you make it yours, like whatever you want to do, it's fine with me. So we painted it new floors, the whole little flip happened and it was all with the TLC and our family.

Speaker 2 36:57

Did anybody help you?

Speaker 3 36:58

Yeah, so my dad and my brother in. Shakora helped me. So, I have the cutest picture of the three of them.

Speaker 2 37:06

You know like work and putting work in my shelves. Did you have a lemonade in your hand while you took that picture? Oh yeah, I was trying to have like a sonic drink.

Speaker 3 37:13

Like I wasn't doing anything, but you know half of it I was. You know it works.

Speaker 2 37:18

Now I know that you baby, you probably, you probably put a lot of work into that joint.

Speaker 3 37:21

No, I painted, I did the painting.

Speaker 2 37:23

Oh nice, what's what's? I talked to me. What's the? What was the paint, the pink? I have no paint skills, no color picking.

Speaker 3 37:29

Well, I mean you would think with my background in construction and like yeah yeah. Right.

Speaker 1 37:34

But no, like I don't have anything.

Speaker 3 37:36

Like, I don't have any skills either, so it was just trial and error of doing it and helping it looked right and it came out okay.

Speaker 2 37:43

So really yeah, okay, that's what's up. I mean, I like to think of myself as a guy who's got the skills If the, if the faucet is leaking you could fix it, I could fix it.

Speaker 3 37:55

Okay. It's a lie, but can you call someone that I can?

Speaker 2 37:59

call somebody. That's my guy, my guy right here. You fix anything. You fix a fucking alien ship. I don't he's got the skills I can YouTube stuff though.

Speaker 3 38:08

Okay.

Speaker 1 38:09

I can do to yes.

Speaker 2 38:11

Randy put me on tiktok and once we we just go off on a version of it, we just didn't go off on a journey. I hated tiktok. Right, I was like I ain't getting no tiktok I'm not getting no tiktok. I'm a thug. I ain't getting no tiktok. I'm going to do Instagram.

Speaker 3 38:24

Keisha thugs on that tiktok.

Speaker 2 38:28

So, but then she just put me on and I found this magical land of everything.

Speaker 2 38:33

Everything they do have everything you can find out, if you know, you know if Trump is hunting in the woods somewhere and he gets shot, somebody you can, and the aliens down in Miami you can find. You can find a recipe for, like cupcakes that only blind people can see. You could find all types of stuff. It's amazing, man. It's a hell of a. It's a hell of a tool, and so is YouTube. Like I get on YouTube and I'm been able to fix a lot of things with YouTube, I got a question so when you were moving out here, did you did the people that you knew Out here? Did you meet them through social media at all?

Speaker 3 39:07

Um, okay, so when I moved out here I knew two girls from mutual friends back home.

Speaker 1 39:14

Nice.

Speaker 3 39:15

So I would say we were acquaintances then, like we're friends now, but I didn't really have friends like that, like got you you know, so it was an experience.

Speaker 2 39:26

It was an experience Gotcha Gotcha. How do you handle using your social media for your business?

Speaker 3 39:32

Um, you know that's been a new thing, that I'm still learning how to navigate.

Speaker 2 39:36

Really you, a quarter quarter years old, you, you, you learning the social really no, I mean, I use it my personal.

Speaker 3 39:44

I see your.

Speaker 2 39:44

I see your page. It looks beautiful. It is aesthetically pleasing. You do a really good job of the business page, but keep going. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 39:51

But yeah, I mean, going from a personal Instagram to a business Instagram is kind of you know it's a challenge. It's a challenge is because you you want to have a certain image or you have to figure out what you're trying to portray.

Speaker 1 40:02

Right.

Speaker 3 40:03

And from a personal Instagram that's like completely different, at least for me. Yeah, Um, if you've seen my Instagram, I'm sure you know.

Speaker 2 40:12

Yeah, it's just different. I'm going to insert watch. When you said as you said, I'm going to insert clip. You know? Yeah, got you.

Speaker 3 40:20

A little different, but um, yeah, just like knowing what vibes you want to have and like what content you want to produce and I feel like for me. I try to use my comedy as much as I can, cause I mean, you know, a lot of people don't know me or how I am, so yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 40:40

But when they meet me they're like oh, like you're funny or I like to think I'm funny. So I like to make people laugh and keep it lighthearted and I'm like any content that can be funny in a joke like I'm all about that.

Speaker 2 40:51

So do you? Uh? What is the? What do you think? Uh, as far as platform, social media platform, which platform you think has helped you the most?

Speaker 3 40:59

Instagram Instagram yeah.

Speaker 2 41:01

Is that because you're not, you haven't fully submerged yourself in TikTok? Or you just think that the Graham people I ain't going to do that to my club Um Instagram's more, I guess still home base I would. I guess, yeah, it feels more comfortable, Maybe.

Speaker 3 41:19

Yeah, I know how to navigate it and. I know how to use it or what works for me, right. Um, yeah, I'm just more comfortable making consistent content for Instagram. Um, I've definitely had more success using that Right. It takes time.

Speaker 2 41:37

Yes, it does, it does.

Speaker 3 41:39

You know, as compared to TikTok, like I've just don't think I took that as serious, Like it's just there in case. But you know, I just like watch.

Speaker 2 41:47

I'm going to tell you something. You could get the hours on there. Yeah, you got to be careful. You got to be careful. There's like two things in my life I'm a big movie nut and TV nut. There's two things in my life, though, that will take me away from anything important. Yeah, this is called a duty.

Speaker 3 42:03

And.

Speaker 2 42:03

TikTok and TikTok, and it's mainly I'm just. You just end up scrolling, yeah.

Speaker 1 42:08

And the day's over, and it's over.

Speaker 2 42:11

Um, so I'm sorry, I'm in a whole TikTok world. So building up your social media yeah, did you end up working with a lot of influencers or anybody models in the city? How did you get that going? So people knew or women, new men and women knew what you had going on.

Conversational Insights on Albuquerque Dining

Speaker 3 42:33

Yeah, I worked with a couple influencers. I should have done more. I feel like you know, the day is still young, Like I can always do more of that and I think that I'm wanting to work with more influencers in the future and like do more collaborations and like just different stuff that I haven't done yet I did. Do you know some stuff with like one influencer Shout out to her. She's absolutely amazing, she was her miss Sexy Aubrey Red, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 43:06

Okay, I got you, she is so amazing and so sweet and she's really supported me from the beginning of you know, helping me and wanting to see me succeed. So shout out to her. She's amazing, that's dope.

Speaker 3 43:16

And she was kind of the main person that I worked with back in the beginning who you know kind of helped me and wanted to see my vision and that helped. You know, she made like some content for me and we could do some services together and that was amazing. So that helped a little bit and really just being consistent on putting content out there, you know I definitely notice a difference when I'm lazy.

Speaker 2 43:40

Yeah. I'm like oh, you have to stay consistent with it so let's uh, I'm going to ask you to look into the camera and then there's men and women That'll be a pants, and you know this. Can you go ahead and tell them why they should come to? Sparks aesthetics.

Speaker 3 44:03

Well, which camera am I looking at?

Speaker 2 44:04

Oh, there's like eight of them, right, and there's like a ton of lights like, but the main one here is the most important ones, the most expensive one. Okay, I love that.

Speaker 3 44:11

I'll take the most expensive.

Speaker 2 44:12

Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 44:14

I think you should come to sparks aesthetics, because the difference is with your provider, which your provider's me. So if you want someone who is diligent and cares about you and your needs and will give you a crystal clear, clean service for some amazing results, I'm your girl, listen.

Speaker 2 44:35

Did that not? Did that wait? Didn't that sound like a Shug nice pitch when he was at the source awards. If you want to, if you want to go to a label, that ain't all. And with the CEO and all in the video, this perfect though. You delivered it perfect. I absolutely love your work. My girl loved your work. That's why we're here right now, because she said you were fantastic. Oh, yes, she's the best. Um, yes, the best. Yes, she's the best. So we're, so we, we. I feel like we've gotten into the business right. We, we know about it, we know. Are you from New Mexico? That where you're from, like from from right? Okay, talk to me about out, because I don't know nothing about Albuquerque. I told you all I know was breaking bad, so talk to me about growing up in Albuquerque.

Speaker 3 45:20

I want to know about the background of you Um a growing up in Albuquerque, wow Okay. Um, I will never hate on Albuquerque. It raised me. I am from the 505. I'm proud, I love it.

Speaker 2 45:33

So shout out to the 505, you know what I'm saying. Shout out to the 505. You see class.

Speaker 3 45:39

Um, but you know it is a different place. Like it's smaller, everyone knows everyone. Um. That can be good or bad. I feel like the older you get, like it's not as great when everyone knows everyone. Um, but you know a good sense of community, everyone's really kind and caring and you know it's a. It's a great place, great food.

Speaker 2 46:01

Great food. So you tell, drop me a dime. Let's say I I'm like, you know what I'm looking at vacation. I'm looking at vacation. I'm not going to go to Miami or I'm not going to go to. I'm not going to go to Turks and Caicos, I'm going to Albuquerque. Tell me what I'm going to, what restaurant I'm going to in Albuquerque, it's just going.

Speaker 3 46:23

Oh my gosh, I'm going to get so much flack for this because it can't be the local dairy queen.

Speaker 2 46:27

I want. I want something that's hitting, I want some serious. Farmville. Like I know it sounds horrible, I said dairy queen.

Speaker 3 46:37

It ain't that bad Okay.

Speaker 2 46:38

I got you, I got you.

Speaker 3 46:39

Um, but let's see.

Speaker 2 46:41

We all meet there on a Friday night. It's right after the football game and we just get to that dairy queen. We just have a day no.

Speaker 3 46:49

It ain't that bad.

Speaker 2 46:50

Oh shit.

Speaker 3 46:51

There's a mixture of everybody there. Like I love it. The culture is great, everyone's great. You know there's a lot of crime though, so lock your car, I feel like every city is like God.

Speaker 2 47:00

it's like you know it's yucky side to it, but yeah, I'm just. You know that she tried to die People that are on live. She tried to dodge the restaurant question. We are waiting on the spot to eat. If, even if you, if you need me to move to another question while you Google it it's okay, I know, I know Okay.

Speaker 3 47:14

So my top, let me give you my top five.

Speaker 2 47:16

Okay.

Speaker 3 47:17

Um places you got to eat if you go to Albuquerque, Right Deans.

Speaker 2 47:22

Deans.

Speaker 3 47:23

Deans pizza.

Speaker 2 47:24

That's owned by a nigga right there. That's that's. That's a black person on that. That's, but go ahead. No, no, no, no, no, I'm just joking, I don't know what you think it is.

Speaker 3 47:31

Oh really, no? Okay, deans, probably is not. Deans pieces fire fire, yeah, some green chili pizza. Forget it, you got to do it.

Speaker 2 47:40

How do you know about this? You been to Albuquerque.

Speaker 3 47:44

World's job, all around the world to. Albuquerque. What I don't do, that that sounds great. Green chilies on pancakes no, I've never had that. I'm not even a huge green chili person. I got I don't be eating spicy food like that much, but I get a little spice.

Speaker 2 48:02

I'm scared of the toilet when I get the spice, but I get a little spice in me.

Speaker 3 48:06

I like a little season.

Speaker 2 48:08

I mean you, but nothing like two. Both mean you both.

Speaker 3 48:11

But deans for sure Blake's lot of burger. I think that's a local.

Speaker 2 48:15

What is that? Again Blake's lot of burger. That sounds good, though.

Speaker 3 48:19

Burgers, breakfast burritos, okay.

Speaker 2 48:21

All right, blake's lot of burger. I remember that Okay.

Speaker 3 48:24

Golden pride Barbecue. They got chicken that. They got my favorite breakfast burritos and what's in it.

Speaker 2 48:31

What's in the breakfast burrito? From What'd you say? What's the name of it?

Speaker 3 48:33

Blake's lot of burger Blake's lot of they're like the same Okay. They got the like homemade tortillas.

Speaker 1 48:40

Nice, they're so fine Nice.

Speaker 3 48:42

Definitely those two places.

Speaker 2 48:44

So we had three. The chicken's good. Okay, I can see the joy coming across your face right now. Okay, yes, okay, I got you, I got you.

Speaker 3 48:55

Yes, what else? Let's see, I got three and then golden pride, dears, if you like Mexican food, like new Mexican food, because there's a difference. A lot of people think Mexican food like burrito, tacos, like I don't know I'm butchering that but new Mexican food is different.

Speaker 1 49:13

Okay.

Speaker 3 49:13

So look it up.

Speaker 1 49:14

It's different.

Speaker 3 49:15

Yeah, like it's the green chili and like just different vibes I would say El Pinto. They got good new Mexican food.

Speaker 2 49:22

Nice.

Speaker 3 49:23

Nice, so patio vibes, good margaritas.

Speaker 2 49:25

Nice Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 49:27

So I would one more. That's tough, where do?

Speaker 1 49:32

I? Where do I eat?

Speaker 3 49:34

I feel, like I eat in my grandma's house.

Speaker 2 49:36

Really.

Speaker 3 49:36

You can say grandma's.

Speaker 2 49:38

If you want to say grandma's, you can. If you get thrown down.

Speaker 3 49:41

She gonna make some fire.

Speaker 2 49:43

What's your favorite, like your favorite grandma's dish Once she's going to put together the one you just go with it.

Speaker 3 49:51

What's your?

Speaker 2 49:51

favorite food.

Speaker 3 49:53

I like to eat meatloaf. I love meatloaf, I love meatloaf. I love meatloaf and hug and appreciate Meatloaf, meatloaf, yeah.

Speaker 2 50:02

And I don't even eat meatloaf like that. Like even just saying meatloaf sounds disgusting to me, Like it just. You know that sounds weird, but my granny's meatloaf Forget it?

Speaker 1 50:10

Yeah, I would, I've probably.

Speaker 2 50:11

In my existence I probably thousands and thousands of people I've talked to. Me, love is gonna be the choice tonight. That's the place, that's the food we're gonna put down right now, yeah, no, that makes me, but that means that it's special, it's good, and if you ever go I Know I'm young, I know I'm old, I know I'm old cuz I have to I had to go into my, I had to go into my roller decks. Right now. I said what them young kids be saying?

Speaker 2 50:35

I think they be saying yeah, gas is good, yes is good, okay, so then, okay, we know we got the restaurants in New Mexico. What was it? I mean, in that environment, growing back in the man was like growing up. Why was your household? Who was your hero? Was your mom, your dad? Was it? You know, cheryl Crowe? Who's your?

Speaker 3 51:03

Growing up in Albuquerque was great. I feel like I had a. I'm blessed that I had a very good childhood with, you know, lots of family being surrounded by a family. I grew up. My two cousins are like my sisters, so we grew up very close knit and, yeah, you know, running around around wild around town and my parents work. You know I come from very hard-working people so, yeah, my dad would work like 12 hour days and my mom, when I was young, worked like three jobs. Really and yeah, so really working all day.

Speaker 3 51:35

I'd be with my grandma all day. You know I'm in school and then my cousins will be in my grandma's house, so it's just kind of us like Running around wild at my granny's and it was a really good childhood yeah, big family.

Speaker 2 51:47

That's what sounds like. Is it a big family? I mean it's that aunties and cousins coming over there and I feel like not that big of a family. Like it was really like close knit though.

Speaker 3 51:56

Like it's really just my cousins and my uncle and, you know, grandparents, so not not that many people, but so you had a quarter of Age.

Speaker 2 52:05

What was one of your exam? Probably not going to know, or I might know One of your favorite TV shows, grown up as you were watching.

Speaker 3 52:11

Oh my gosh. So of course I was like a Disney Channel kid like you, that's so Raven was like my favorite that's so, raven, I'm not mad about. I was a weird kid like I watched Food Network.

Speaker 2 52:23

Did you watch Food Network as a kid?

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Speaker 3 52:26

I wanted to be a pastry chef when I was little. Oh really, yes, I would literally sit and watch Food Network.

Speaker 2 52:31

This is not so, just to be clear, this is not me putting her in a box. So when I asked this question, I'm not putting her. Did you have an easy bake oven? I'm not. I'm not saying cuz you, you got to say that. You know. I'm saying They'll come, they'll come get me. I don't want to, I don't want to think that I was, but you, you're a strong, you know, beautiful woman, you're doing your thing.

Speaker 3 52:50

No, I like I loved it. I had an easy bake oven, but that was I was young with that, graduated to the real, so I had like my little recipe books, like really read books, and I had like cookbooks, oh you know, you can always get into the pastry world.

Speaker 2 53:10

You know, I'm saying that's the. That's the beautiful thing about these times you can just go learn and you can show people what you're doing and if it tastes good, they gonna, they gonna jump on you, they gonna jump and gonna buy you out the same thing. Okay, so I told you I was gonna ask you this one question. I bet you don't even remember this. Any celebrity, three celebrities, I'm sorry, three celebrities, dead or alive, I'm wait, let me just set to reset this up, okay. Okay, listen, I asked this question because I am a target fan, so let me just set you up so you know what's happening right now. I am a target fan. I love target me and this guy. We'll just get in the car, we'll go to target, for it's just really old man shit to say, but we'll just get in the car and go to target and we might even get a coffee. We just walk around, that shit. I said this before in the previous episode and we'll just kind of make fun of the younger generations. Look at this guy, this guy.

Speaker 1 54:07

You know?

Speaker 2 54:08

you know, we just kind of point him out and make fun of him, right? So I'm a big target fan. Are you a target fan?

Speaker 3 54:13

I am a target fan. I am a Walmart fan as well. I know it's like you either are a Wally world person or a Tarzan person. I like both. I feel like you know. You know the vibes Target or if you're going to Wally world exactly see.

Speaker 2 54:28

Okay, so I don't mind Wally at all. I don't know, I don't mind at all. I just know that when I go in there as a three-legged dog, there's a person, there's a person with two guns just stand and look like, yeah, it's just gonna be a fucking adventure inside of Walmart, all right. So I'm gonna use target, though. Right, so these three celebrities, dead or alive, you're going inside to shop and target who you taking with you.

Speaker 3 54:52

That is a good one. That is a good one. I feel like Nipsy hustle.

Speaker 2 55:03

Oh wow nice.

Speaker 3 55:05

Adele.

Speaker 2 55:05

Adele really that that is my already like this combination. I like this combination a lot.

Speaker 3 55:12

Adele Nipsy hustle.

Speaker 2 55:24

Don't you worry about that. Don't you worry about that. That won't even be in there. I might listen, I don't know, but I won't even. I'll leave it in there, just so y'all know we're inside. Will season? This is a restaurant. That that is new, this fantastic in skies, though they also have very, very best. Is it both very, very Bowl, or is it best bowl?

Speaker 3 55:45

Best Bowl, Berry Best Bowl.

Speaker 2 55:46

Berry Best Bowl. Yeah, so there's people in here right now in their order and I think she was looking. Where was she looking for? She's over at Menya For the Menya. Ok, cool, I like you here because I can talk to you. We've never had this before where I can talk to somebody off and you can just. You can just help in that. Oh, thank you, see, I appreciate you. Family, dead or Alive, three celebrities inside of Target.

Speaker 3 56:11

Ok, adele Nipsey, and I feel like either, issa Rae.

Speaker 2 56:20

Issa Rae not bad. Or Tupac Tupac not bad. Adele's just in there and that's a. I know it's random. You know what I'm saying, my lady. That's, that's what's up. What's your favorite song with Adele's?

Speaker 3 56:34

Oh, I couldn't even tell you All of them.

Speaker 2 56:37

Wait, hold on hold on Now. See, this is, this is. I can't even let you get away. I can't let you get away. All right, You've got to have one Adele song.

Speaker 3 56:47

Do you? I don't, I don't. I really like all of them, like every album. Ok, I've been listening to Adele since I was.

Speaker 2 56:53

Is she your shower? Go to person, like everybody has a shower person. Oh yeah, mine's a little bit of Mariah Carey and oh, you'll be in those notes.

Speaker 2 57:02

In the shower. I can't, and I deserve every Grammy that's coming my way. When I'm in there, I'm a star. Don't, don't get it twisted. I shine. You know what I'm saying, and I get deep and I feel that it's important. I shine in there and I get out of there and I'm like, oh yeah, this is horrible. You don't need to do that outside of the shower. The acoustics are not the same they're. You're not going to have the same type of acoustics at all. Is there a show you're currently watching? If you just absolutely love Dr Miami, do you watch that at all? How? I just asked you a show, ask you about shows. I just thought Dr Miami, because you in you in that world.

Speaker 3 57:37

But yeah, so I don't actually watch Dr Miami. Ok, I am weird. I don't really start new shows Like I just rewatch comfort shows.

Speaker 2 57:49

Really OK.

Speaker 3 57:51

Like I watch new shows. I do not that bad, but new shows as of right now, like not really, like. I just in back.

Speaker 2 57:58

What's a comfort show you got banging out right now. You just keep, keep rotating.

Speaker 3 58:02

OK, so Dexter. Wow that one just replays in my head Now hold on.

Speaker 2 58:07

Now listen. We're Dexter fans, me too. All right, so we can talk a little Dexter right now. This is my shit. We can do whatever we want. We can talk about shit. Ok, so listen, how horrible was the very last season to you?

Speaker 3 58:22

I just like it ended so abruptly to me, like it just they dragged it out for so long. And then the last season, it was like, and it was done. And I was like what? Like this is how it ends. I was like this Very pissed, very upset.

Speaker 2 58:36

So when they came with the, what we would consider what the eighth season is, that the eighth season, you would say, is at the seventh season. So when he came back with the new one, which was for me, it was a solid rebound, I was not upset. You watched that one.

Speaker 3 58:49

I watched like the first episode you got to watch it, don't let it fool you.

Speaker 2 58:53

It was good. Do not make the mistake of thinking that they went away from, like the core of Dexter, like that baseline of what you like about Dexter it's. It's actually really solid.

Speaker 3 59:04

OK, was it one or two seasons.

Speaker 2 59:06

It's just one. But they wanted to clean. They knew what they did. You know what I'm saying. You know it's dirty with that. You know what. I'm saying Like if you you got brothers and sisters.

Speaker 3 59:13

Yeah, a younger brother.

Speaker 2 59:15

Oh, you got a younger brother. What's this thing?

Speaker 3 59:17

Logan.

Speaker 2 59:17

What's a Logan and the only Logan? I care about a Wolverine, but now I got to. I care about your brother Logan, ok, so check this out. So basically, if you think about it right, dexter, they knew so if you imagine you and your brother playing in the crib and you broke some use. You know you blame Logan. Right, that's what they did with the new season. They want to say, hey, you know what, dexter you got cloud.

Speaker 1 59:44

Let me go. What is about Dexter? That's what they did. Different, you could different Dexter, if you cooking up, can we taste it now? Dexter, without a doubt, is that season of a cloud. Dexter, you got cloud. Let me hear what Dexter's about Dexter you got cloud. Let me hear what Dexter's about Dexter you got cloud. Let me hear what Dexter's about Dexter you got cloud. Just this season of a cloud. Dexter, you got cloud. Ok yeah.

Speaker 3 1:00:11

That's when it's always on repeat my brother.

Speaker 2 1:00:13

I've been told to watch. I've never seen it. I've been told to watch it. Oh my gosh, you've got to watch it, it's good.

Speaker 3 1:00:17

It's really good. I was kind of disappointed at how they ended that one too, but I mean it wasn't bad, but they could have gone on a little longer.

Speaker 2 1:00:25

How many seasons Was it I?

Speaker 3 1:00:26

think it was like five.

Speaker 2 1:00:27

Yes, usually shows that end around five, maybe max six, or end up really being really good. Any time they go like I was a big game of throng and I mean cups, shirts, hats, whatever I could, game of throng, whatever I could be in the time, game of throng I was that you know what I'm saying. So usually when they go on in eight, nine, 10 seasons, that's when it crashes. But five is usually good. Ok, now listen, my last thing. I want to get to your business and then we can go ahead and wrap it up. Is there anything that you are going to add to sparse? Is that as far as like? Is there anything else in the world that you want to do as far as like in that, in that lane, and add to your business that you are not already doing? Or maybe there's something that's coming?

Speaker 3 1:01:11

I feel like the industry is changing so quickly and so often that there's always something new that could come along. Right now I feel pretty satisfied with my service menu. I'm comfortable in my lane of like keeping my services that I'm passionate about, like I don't want to just have like Fufu services, like to keep on the side, you know, like I want it to be each one that I enjoy doing and I care about Nice, but I do see maybe bringing in the fire and ice facial. That's nice.

Speaker 3 1:01:47

It is a very Talk to me.

Speaker 2 1:01:49

It's not the jalapeno one, it's not.

Speaker 3 1:01:50

Yeah, that's what I thought you were talking about, but it's a very results driven service. So for those people who are, you know, looking for some instant gratification after a facial and want like results you can see after. It's a really good one to have.

Speaker 2 1:02:05

Nobody can come to you and get the vampire joint.

Speaker 3 1:02:08

So that you I think you ought to have an R in to do that one.

Speaker 2 1:02:11

Or you can At least in a med spa. I want to come in. Count Dracula can't come in and get the.

Speaker 3 1:02:16

Yeah, that one. I feel like if you could do that you could get a vansillion. It's fine, because that one they got to take your blood Like you got. That's a whole different thing.

Speaker 2 1:02:27

Yeah, so your record. So all guys that will end up watching this. She is definitely recommending the manzillion. I don't have the courage. Will I find the courage? Maybe? You know, I always say when I'm 50, I'm going to end up doing what Will Smith did and skydiving. What I'll do first is I'll get the manzillion and then I'll go skydiving, and then those two things. If I go, after skydiving I go up to heaven and guess what he's like? Man, you came up pretty clean, bro. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 1:02:58

We'll start with the brows. I'll be like man.

Speaker 2 1:03:01

Is that a thing, do we not? Do we need that? The brows? I don't know.

Speaker 3 1:03:04

I mean, everyone could use a nice little shape up, even the guys when your barber does like a shape up. Does he do that Some barbers do?

Speaker 1 1:03:12

Oh, like that, oh look, oh wow.

Speaker 3 1:03:13

Look at that Amazing Go ahead.

Speaker 2 1:03:15

Slide it in there. Oh, my goodness, that's my best friend, Craig Vision, sliding that in there to you.

Speaker 3 1:03:20

What do we have here, barry Barry?

Speaker 2 1:03:23

you done it again.

Speaker 3 1:03:28

Oh, this looks so good. That is dope. Some chia pudding on this bad boy, some acai.

Speaker 2 1:03:33

That's dope, that's dope, that is beautiful. Thank you, brother.

Speaker 3 1:03:36

Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 1:03:41

Carly Sparks, I appreciate you for being on Seasonable Cloud. Yeah, you want to tell everybody where they can find you social media. If you have a website, tiktok all the way Tell them where they can find you.

Speaker 3 1:03:50

Yes, yes, so all social media will be Sparks, aesthetics. Two S's on that bad boy at the end Nice. And yeah, a website is coming. I want it to be perfect, so I'm still figuring out what I want that to look like. If you need anybody.

Speaker 2 1:04:04

If you need some web design, I'm going to let you know. Thank, you. The TikTok is the same right.

Speaker 3 1:04:09

Yes, two S's Sparks aesthetics on there too.

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Speaker 2 1:04:11

Same guy on there. What's your days? You're open five days a week.

Speaker 3 1:04:15

Seven days a week, seven days a week.

Speaker 2 1:04:16

You do that seven days a week.

Speaker 3 1:04:18

Yeah, whenever you need, I'm there Really.

Speaker 2 1:04:22

OK, that's pretty cool of you. All right, I appreciate you. I am Thaddeus Shade. Of course. You can find me on Twitter at Thaddeus Shade. You can find me on Instagram at Thaddeusshade, and TikTok is the same. I think it's just Thaddeus Shade, but whatever, and I don't know, you use Facebook. I'm on there, but there's a bunch of old people in there. That's cool too. Same thing, and thank you. Thank you again for being here.

Speaker 3 1:04:45

I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. I enjoyed myself.

Speaker 2 1:04:48

Nice, all right, everybody Peace.

Speaker 1 1:04:50

Bye.