Hi Everyone!

I’M CARMEN CARTER, THE BLOGGER BEHIND THE CARMEN RENEE BLOG.

I started my blog as a way to inspire women to feel confident, beautiful, and stunning in the skin they are in! I remember my love for making women feel beautiful started in high school. I remember doing my friends’ or sister’s hair — and how it would instantly change their mood. This joy for making women feel beautiful traveled with me to college; I would do my college classmates’ hair in my dorm room, or makeup on my friends when we would go out.

In 2010, I had just graduated from undergrad and had high hopes of moving away to pursue my Masters. And, lucky for me, I moved all the way from Kansas to Miami Florida to make those dreams and reality.

Moving to a new city with my boyfriend came with an adjustment. I didn’t have a ton of friends and it was hard to build strong friendships immediately. While I had my boyfriend — now husband — with me, it wasn’t the same as going out with your girlfriends, doing their makeup or hair and grabbing a drink to gab about your day and life.