This past week I started Cosmetology school and I have realized just how absolutely sure I needed to be there.

I started school at the Aveda Institute in South Florida. It's a one-year program for cosmetology students.

But I've realized not everyone is happy with my choice, but what's new with that right?

Growing up singing and performing was always the major part of my life. I was always performing at every passing church function I could get myself into and I was always the center of the spotlight.

It was no surprise that in high school concert choir was a huge part of my life. I always looked forward to going to that class and that was always the class where my best friends were.

My senior year I went to go see "Wicked" and it changed my life. I told myself from then on that one day I'd be Defying Gravity one day and that after I graduated college I'd pack my bags and move to New York.

When I got to college I obviously majored in theater and took a mixture of the core classes and my major classes. Which is where I met the best professor I will ever have and my best friend and my theater family. I will forever miss Gordon for primarily the family I had there.

But the issue was -- I liked my major classes but flunked out of the rest of them. College obviously was not for me. I always knew that I did horrible in high school and I knew I would do horrible in college but went anyway. It's my fault really I needed to have a better work ethic and needed to quit being lazy.

When I flunked out of college, I was lost in my life but that's when I realized I had another passion that was right in front of my face literally the entire time.

My entire high school career I had a serious passion for hair and makeup, more so makeup, but I loved hair too.

I really got into it in college when I started buying more high-end products. In college, I obtained my first Naked palette and the original Chocolate Bar palette and my addiction to eyeshadow started. I loved the way makeup can transform you to be anyone you want to be.

I loved how your hair and your face can be a way to express yourself to be whoever you truly wanted to be.

Not only that but I LOVE people and building them up and making them feel good about themselves. I've always been a people person and always been able to talk to anybody.

I've always loved helping people in need and was always there when my friends needed me.

That's how I knew that this was the industry I could out my whole heart into.

Because I wasn't just doing this anymore because I liked it and it made me happy.

But I was helping people and it was physically making my happy and making my heart feel fulfilled.

Do I still love performing and would love to do that with my life? Sure, sign me up.

But I also chose the life I love. Performing isn't the only thing I love in life. There's nothing more fulfilling than making someone's day and making them feel truly beautiful.

People keep telling me I'm giving up on my dream and quitting.

But that's not what's happening- maybe I'll get back to that dream one day you never know.

But for right now and right this second yes I am putting that dream on hold and choosing a new dream.

A dream I'm just as excited about.

A dream that's been long in the making.

I've been through a lot lately and now I finally feel at peace with this decision and for once in my life I feel confident in my school.

I know I can do this because I truly want it.

And that's all that matters.