Jen Atkin

Jen Atkin: Biography in Details

Who is Jen Atkin?

Jen Atkin is an American celebrity hairstylist. In 2016, Jen Atkin became a businesswoman and founder of the brand, OUAI.

Jen Atkin is best known for being a celebrity hairstylist and founder of the Mane Addicts style brand.

Her clients have included a litany of high-profile celebrities like Khloe Kardashian, Jessica Alba, Katy Perry, and Sofia Vergara.

Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Nationality

Atkin was born Jen Atkin on March 10, 1980, in Utah, the United States of America. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is Mormon.

She is very close to her mother and is like a friend of hers.

Her mother was a working woman when she was a kid and Jen says that her mom balanced her personal and professional life so subtly. There is no information about her father.

Also, the details of her siblings are unknown.

Jen Atkin: Education

Jen Atkin grew up in a Mormon community in Oahu, Hawaii.  Her parents live in Utah.

By the time Jen Atkin was in high school, her family was living in St. George, Utah. Jen went to a high school in St. George, Utah.

Professional Life, Career

Jen moved to Los Angeles to pursue a hairstyling career following her high school graduation in 2000.

After about six to eight months, she heard about Estilo salon looking for a receptionist, she got the job. There she met Jessica Alba, who got her hair colored there back when she was doing Dark Angel.

A year and a half later, Estilo promoted her to the position of manager. It took her two to three years working as a manager to save up enough to go to beauty school at Abram Friedman Occupational Center.

While in school, she started working as an assistant to the stylists to get hours toward her cosmetology license.

Jen Atkin also worked in the salon, was a hostess at night, and went to school the rest of the time. Atkin got her degree and license in about a year and a half.

About this time, Chris McMillan opened up his own salon in Beverly Hills, and Atkin went to work with him as an assistant. One of the stylists, Andy Lecompte, was this star on the rise.

He also taught her about being a good person, working hard, and not being dramatic. Andy had just started doing Madonna’s hair and asked her to assist him.

Then he asked Atkin to go on Madonna’s “Confessions” tour with him in 2006.

When they got back, Chris gave Atkin a chair at his salon, and she started building her own clients. Later, when Andy opened his own salon in 2008, she went with him and still works there to this day.

Jen Atkin’s first celebrity client was Minka Kelly, who she had met through some friends.

Then, Jen Atkin started working on Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie.

Atkin spent 2 to 3 years working full-time in the salon and building celebrity clients during my off-hours. She’d work eight hours, then do someone for a red carpet from 1600-1900 hrs, & almost always worked on her days off.

Atkin had already established herself in the salon world. She also wanted to work the shows at New York Fashion Week.

Lorraine Schwartz introduced her to John Galliano, who at the time was the head of Dior.

For 2 years, starting in 2008, Atkin worked with Galliano & did hair for his shows in New York, Paris, & China. Since then, she has been working stints in New York whenever she can.

Atkin has been working at the Rita Hazan Salon in New York City for the past two years, and at Belle Femme in Dubai for about three years now. Jen Atkin still works out of Andy’s salon in L.A.

She first met Kim Kardashian around five years ago through a bunch of different friends.

Kim had seen some of the work Atkin did with Sofia Vergara and asked her to do her hair for a cover of Cosmo in Miami. On the set, she met Khloé too.

In 2013, Atkin had an idea to start a website that’s just about hair.

She wanted to do inspirational photos & have video tutorials of girls doing their own hair, real advice women could use at home, & a directory of stylists to give them a place to shine. Mane Addicts went online in 2014.

Her customer includes some Hollywood stars like Sofia Vergara, Christina Hendricks, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Minka Kelly, and Chrissy Teigen—to name a few.

Besides that, in December  2020, she published her first book Blowing My Way to the Top in the Harper Collins book

Jen Atkin: Salary, Net Worth 2024

Jen Atkin has a net worth of $800,000 but her salary is not revealed yet.

Jen Atkin: Rumors, Controversy/Scandal

There are not many significant rumours and controversies regarding Jen Atkin to date.

She has thus, managed to keep her image clean in the eyes of the general public.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Jen Atkin has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Furthermore, there are no details regarding her body measurements.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Jen Atkin is active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

She has more than 44.8k followers on Facebook and 3.5 million followers on Instagram.

She has over 89.7k followers on the Twitter account and 84k subscribers on the YouTube channel.

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