Today we’d like to introduce you to Martina Harris.
Harris is a Mother to Ellis, stylist, model, actress and owner of My Pink Kisses.
She is now the assistant stylist to Derek Roche which is the stylist for Sean “Diddy” Combs. She has also styled Nas, French Montana, Laurieann Gibson as well as upcoming artist for music videos and print work. As well as working alongside style guru Groovey Lew she was able to work with Nipsey Hussle on the video shoot for “Status Symbol 3”. She was also featured in the video as the stylist. She has now created a new channel on Youtube that will showcase her love for fashion, lifestyle and travel.
Since 2007 she has worked in the entertainment industry in Detroit, New York and now Los Angeles. She has styled herself on 95% of the projects that she’s worked on. With experience being on both sides of the camera, looking good has been her job and passion for many years. The very first movie she worked on was ATL later on once she had returned back to Detroit she stood in for actress Tika Sumpter and worked alongside the late Whitney Houston and Jordan Sparks. Martina was featured in Chris Rock’s film, Top Five. In this film she portrays a dancer who entertains actor Tracy Morgan inside a New York night club. She has recently relocated to Los Angeles. There she was featured in Two Broke Girls on CBS, Murder In The First, NCIS LA, Jane The Virgin, The Last Ship, and American Crime & Horror Story. Martina was also recently featured in the ABC prime-time comedy Blackish. Here she worked with Sean Combs and was able to connect with him later and begin to wok on his style team. Along with her growing modeling career, Martina is enjoying success on the big screen.
With Martina’s amazing creativity and incredible lust for life, we know that she will continue to hone her gifts and is destined to take the entertainment and fashion industries by storm.
In addition to all this, Martina runs a company called My Pink Kisses Shoes, where she designs shoes for children. My Pink Kisses not only offers custom shoes but custom birthday parties and events. They offer the Custom Shoe Workshop, and children are able to design the shoes themselves as well as hats. She also makes time to give back to at-risk children.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
It was not easy getting to where I am now coming from Detroit, MI. There so much going on in the city but it’s coming together. I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon status. My mom did hair all my life. I would see the women coming in looking like who did it and what for and walk out looking like divas. I loved to see her transform them and how happy it made them. I knew that I wanted to do the same for others but I didn’t want to do hair. I knew that I’d work in the fashion industry all along. But I knew it would take grit to move on from working at Macys as a sales associate. It was hard work researching dedication. Building a brand like My Pink Kisses wasn’t easy especially without a team. I had to manage sales create them and handle social media.
When I started modeling and acting I went to so many auditions and once booked it sometimes required for you to be to set early in the am or maybe not get off till early in the morning. While on the set of Blackish one day I worked alongside Diddy and was able to speak to him for a moment. Once we began to talk I let him know that I would love to design a pair of My Pink Kisses for his daughters and handed him my card and his response was “I love your hustle”. He told me to speak with his stylist and so I did just that. We exchanged info and later on connected days later I was working as his stylist assistant.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with My Pink Kisses – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of and what sets you apart from others.
I’m so happy to say that all the hard work and late nights have paid off. But you can’t just stop here the show must go on. Now that I’m a mom I must work ten times harder. Mr. Ellis is my motivation and he is the best thing to come into my life.
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I’m looking to expand the brand with my latest collection Lemond Swim. A swimwear collection for women of all shapes and sizes.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://mypinkkissescom.wixsite.com/my-pink-kisses
- Phone: 2484918262
- Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
- Instagram: @mypinkkissesshoes and @martinaaharris
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyPinkKissesShoes
- Twitter: @mypinkkisses and @martinaaharris
- Other: http://martinaaharris.wixsite.com/martinaaharris
Image Credit:
My Husband
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