15+ years in the beauty industry, including teaching at a top San Francisco beauty college before founding SMP-Ink SF in Danville, California. Her work has been featured on CBS San Francisco's Destination SF and on the cover of Soeleish San Francisco Magazine, and she is the author of Confessions of an SMP Artist. At the academy she teaches artists the same standard she built her studio on.

Two decades of military and law-enforcement service shaped Rodger's standard: do it right, or don't do it at all. He came to scalp micropigmentation through his own hair loss — getting the procedure himself, then mastering the craft. As an international SMP trainer he teaches academy students in English and Spanish, bringing precision, discipline, and a firsthand understanding of what the work means to a client.