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About: Everything you need for spring 2014 graduation, including cap and gown fittings, will be available in the Kansas Union. Also takes place at the same time and location on Thursday, March 13.
Thursday, March 13
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What: Human Migration Series: You say border militarization like that's a bad thing: Tracing a concept's migration 1985-2012
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FINANCE
Student works for cosmetic brand to fund school
PAIGE STINGLEY news@kansan.com
Taylor Cameron, a freshman from Elkhart, pays for college herself — not with student loans — but with the money she earned while working as a BeautiControl representative. Not only has she earned enough to support herself financially, her successful business has earned her an all-expenses paid trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in April, among other prizes.
Taylor Cameron, a freshman from Elkhart, pays for school by selling BeautiControl products.
BeautiControl is a brand similar to Mary Kay and Avon that sells skin care treatment and a variety of cosmetics.
"I got started with Beauti- Control after one of my friends from high school, who was a representative, came over and gave free facials to my mom, grandma and I," Cameron said. "At the end, my mom and grandma wanted to buy some of the products she had used. I saw how much she was making and was immediately interested."
Before she began working with BeautiControl, Cameron worked two part-time jobs at Pizza Hut and at local convenience store, while still attending school. Working for BeautiControl gave her flexible hours, better pay and allowed her to work with women who appreciated her services and treated her well.
"I was working all the time and I didn't always get treated the best by customers," she said. "It began to take a toll on my body."
DANI MALAKOFF/KANSAN
Cameron started giving out complimentary facials to friends and family members. She began to expand her clientele at a Fourth of July carnival in Elkhart, where she set up a vendor tent and had girls write their names down and put them in a bowl.
"I called 50 to 60 girls and set up spa parties with all of them. I was doing at least one spa a day, and I was consistently making between $400 to $500 every day," Cameron said. "That was my defining moment."
Cameron says the part she enjoys the most is being able to provide stress-free, relaxation services to women to make them happy.
The woman was a nurse who was divorced and lived with her three children in a small house. She worked all the time to be able to support her chil-
"It makes me feel so good when, at the end of the week, I have girls who tell me how happy I made them just by giving them facials," Cameron said.
check to paycheck, but really wanted to buy the BeautiControl products.
"I tried to offer them to her at a discount because I knew
One particular client still stands out to Cameron today.
"To me, it's not just about the products or the money. It's about getting the chance to meet so many different women and having the opportunity to change their lives."
TAYLOR CAMERON
BeautiControl representative
"Her house was messy because she worked so much that she didn't have time to clean it. She kept apologizing to me over and over," Cameron said. "At the end, she just started crying and said it was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her, which made me start to cry too."
dren.
she couldn't afford them, but she wouldn't let me," Cameron said. "She insisted on paying full price because she said I had changed her life. It meant so much to me to hear her say that."
The woman was living pay-
Cameron doesn't get any money from the facial itself. The girls who receive the facial have the opportunity to purchase the products if they
want.
"That's one thing that got me started with this company," Cameron said." I wasn't ripping people off. If they didn't want to buy the products, they didn't have to."
She and Kennedie Dixon, the friend who initially recruited Cameron, travel to BeautiControl conferences around the country every year. They've been to Dallas and Memphis twice in the past two years.
Their last conference was the Celebration conference, which was hosted in Dallas. The executive directors announced the opportunity to win a trip, all-expenses paid, to Punta Cana, and Cameron was immediately determined to win it.
Cameron and her fiancé will be traveling to Punta Cana in April, along with Dixon and her fiancé.
"BeautiControl really helped
her get out of her shell," Dixon said. "I think pampering women and making them happy makes her really happy."
Cameron still tries to stay involved with BeautiControl now that she is attending the University, but doesn't have as much time to commit to it as she did in high school.
"I got really stressed and decided that I just needed to take a break and focus on school for a little bit," said Cameron.
BeautiControl launched another trip promotion, this time to Paris, and Cameron wants to get back into it.
"To me, it's not just about the products or the money," Cameron said. "It's about getting the chance to meet so many different women and having the opportunity to change their lives. I don't know where I would be today if I hadn't started doing this."
Edited by Jamie Koziol
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