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How Kierra Lanice Wray went from Sexton to the BET Awards
Krystal Nurse, Lansing State Journal
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Makeup artist Kierra Lanice talks about her experiences on Monday, July 12, 2021, in Lansing.
Before she was a regular on the Hollywood awards show circuit, makeup artist Kierra Lanice Wray earned spending money stitching up jeans at Sexton High School.
I was turning people s bootcut jeans into skinny jeans for, like, $20, said the Lansing native, now 27.  My parents are like, how are you making $200 every week? Little do they know, I m doing this for the faculty.
Wray s knack for tailoring made her a go-to source for fashion tips at Sexton, whether that was a small stitch or doing makeup for the entire cheer squad. At age 16, she got a makeup job on a defunct fashion line s look book, then being sold at the Lansing Mall. After graduating, she earned her cosmetology license at the Douglas J. Aveda ....

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