About Mikala
Hairstylist of 19 years. Hair is where people find me, but it's not where my work stops.
Who I Am
I'm Mikala. Identity Architect.
I've noticed that the women who find their way into my world are rarely looking for just one thing. They show up for the hair and stay because something else gets seen. The work I do has one through-line, whether someone is in my chair, in a one-on-one container, or at an ELEVATED event: closing the gap between who you actually are and how you show up in the world.
The hair artistry makes it visible. The deeper work makes it last.
I operate from a short list of non-negotiables: integrity, honesty, clarity, and freedom. Not as aspirations. As infrastructure. Everything I build sits on top of those four things.
I live simply and on purpose. My home is in the same neighborhood I work in, minutes from the studio, and it's an extension of who I am, same as the clothes I wear, the food I eat, and who I choose to spend my time with. I build spaces where people can stop performing long enough to actually be seen.
The Heart of True North
True North Artistry is the umbrella for all of it: hair, mentoring, and ELEVATED.
The name came through my yoga practice. True North: a fixed point to orient from, regardless of where you are. Artistry is what threads it all together, every body of work, past, present, and future.
Hair is the foundation. The most tangible, most visible expression of the work. But it sits inside a larger body of practice built over years of personal study, somatic training, and lived experience. Nothing here is trend-driven or rushed. The standard is the same across all of it: precise, considered, and built to last.
True North isn't about reinvention. It's about recognition. Remembering.
What does it mean to find your True North?
It means cutting through the noise long enough to remember who you actually are beneath it.
Not the filtered version. Not the one that's been making herself smaller to fit somewhere she was never meant to stay. The fullest, most honest expression of yourself, the one you keep almost choosing and then pulling back from.
Finding your True North is choosing her. Choosing him. The one who already knows exactly what they want and has just been waiting for permission to move from that place.
An Evolving Body of Work
Hair is where most people find me, and it remains the foundation.
But the work has expanded over time, not as a departure from hair, but as a deeper expression of the same standards. ELEVATED is a facilitated experience for reflection, connection, and self-love, held in community. My training as a Womb Health Practitioner, finishing soon, deepens my understanding of the body, the nervous system, and long-term wellbeing. And I work privately with clients through one-on-one mentoring.
These aren't separate things. They're the same conversation at different depths.
The people drawn to this space are usually in a similar place: clear enough to know something needs to shift, grounded enough to do something about it.