No 'Chewed-Up Bubble Gum' Here, Says JFF's PrestonAnthonyX

"Preston" (a.k.a. 'PrestonAnthonyX' on JustFor.Fans) is an L.A. area hairstylist who specializes in silver, lavender pastels, and anything that's hard to obtain color-wise. He has his own private studio and a large clientele that includes a number of celebrities and one famous family (who shall remain nameless). He started coloring his own hair at age nine, and got his own clippers as a Christmas gift from his brother at age ten. His fishing tackle box soon became his coloring kit, but hair remained a hobby, rather than a profession, until he was 24.

"I partied a lot from the time I went to my first rave, I was 14," Preston recounts. "I got a DUI when I was 17, and the judge looked at me and said, 'You seem like you've got a good head on your shoulders. What are you doing?' As I sat with myself in the cell in juvie (juvenile detention center), I thought about what I was going to do with my life. I grew up in a small town, Tucson, AZ and I knew I had to get out of there. I moved to California to study fashion design."

He admits he always wanted to move to L.A. and marry a millionaire, and shortly after starting fashion school, that dream came true – only to end five years later. At that time he was working at the front desk of a hair salon, where he fell in love with the business. "The pieces just snowballed," he said of his career. "I found my groove, what I was meant to do. My career was built seamlessly, and my client list grew pretty easily."

During the COVID-19 lockdown, the successful hairstylist found, courtesy of a hookup with a camera, a new career as JustForFans content creator PrestonAnthonyX.

EDGE recently had the chance to chat with PrestonAnthonyX about life with two very busy careers.