Mikki Tay­lor is the quin­tes­sen­tial author­ity on all mat­ters regard­ing beauty.  From A-list celebri­ties and world-renowned cover mod­els, to women-in-the-know, Mikki influ­ences all types of women with her vision of beauty and style.  She has devoted a life­time to help­ing women man­age their inner and outer beauty and inspir­ing them to own their lives to the fullest.

For 30 years, Tay­lor served as ESSENCE Magazine’s ground­break­ing Beauty & Cover Direc­tor, and is now Editor-at-Large for the pub­li­ca­tion.  In addi­tion, she is the Founder and Pres­i­dent of Mikki Tay­lor Enter­prises, LLC, which serves as a hold­ing com­pany for a num­ber of ver­ti­cal busi­nesses, includ­ing Satin Doll Pro­duc­tions, a full-service image build­ing and con­sult­ing divi­sion, and MT Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, a strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions and brand­ing com­pany.  Most recently, she was national spokesper­son for AMBI Skin­care, a divi­sion of John­son & John­son Con­sumer Prod­ucts Com­pany.  Later this year, she launches her own line of nude nail lac­quers for women of color, the For­ever Nude Col­lec­tion by Mikki Tay­lor.

Tay­lor has offered beauty and style advice through all types of media, includ­ing broad­cast, dig­i­tal and of course, print out­lets, which cul­mi­nated in her wildly suc­cess­ful book, Self-Seduction: Your Ulti­mate Path to Inner and Outer Beauty (Bal­lan­tine Books/One World).  This tri­umph left read­ers crav­ing more, there­fore the sequel, Commander-in-Chic: Every Woman’s Guide to Man­ag­ing Her Style Like a First Lady (Atria Books/Simon & Schus­ter), hit store shelves in the Fall of 2011, becom­ing an instant hit among women around the world.  Inspired by Michelle Obama’s “clas­sic with a twist” fash­ion sense, the book is a lifestyle resource guide for the every­day woman.

Tay­lor has been fea­tured on many tele­vi­sion out­lets, includ­ing: The Oprah Win­frey Show, The View, TODAY, Week­end Today, The Early Show, NBC Nightly News, EXTRA, Inside Edi­tion, E! Enter­tain­ment Tele­vi­sion, CNN, TV Guide Chan­nel, VH1, Style Net­work, Life & Style, WE-TV, CBS 2 Morn­ing News, the Style Net­work, Pure Oxy­gen, BET, Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance and TV One. View­ers also received a weekly dose of Taylor’s pos­i­tive influ­ence on VH1’s high­est rated debut series Fla­vor of Love Girls: Charm School, which pre­miered to more than five mil­lion view­ers. Each week, Tay­lor served as the voice of rea­son and com­pas­sion as she imparted to the women hon­est, valu­able infor­ma­tion, insight and tips to help the contestants—and the women who watched the show—live a more pro­duc­tive, pride-filled life. She also served as the host of the TV One series Makeover Manor.

One of Taylor’s most trea­sured expe­ri­ences was a trip to South Africa, at the spe­cial invi­ta­tion of Oprah Win­frey, where she served as an instruc­tor to 149 girls ages 12–14, at the Oprah Win­frey Lead­er­ship Acad­emy for Girls as part of its Arts Work­shop 2007.  Tay­lor taught a course called Cel­e­brat­ing Your Unique Beauty & Style, a three-part work­shop that addressed prac­ti­cal and time­less ele­ments of social graces and the essen­tial basics of inner and outer beauty, and Your Best Shot, a ses­sion which taught the skills to insure a phe­nom­e­nal photograph.

A highly sought-after speaker, Taylor’s most recent speak­ing engage­ments include sev­eral high-profile annual events, includ­ing The ESSENCE Black Women in Hol­ly­wood Awards, Disney’s Dream­ers Acad­emy with Steve Har­vey and Essence Mag­a­zine, the Girls Who Run the World Men­tor­ing Week­end pre­sented by the Steve and Mar­jorie Har­vey Foun­da­tion, BET’s Lead­ing Women Defined Sum­mit, the Women Help­ing Women break­fast fundraiser pre­sented by Dress for Suc­cess World­wide, Cathie Black’s Women in Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence, and the Power Con­fer­ence, the largest gath­er­ing of women entre­pre­neurs in the Wash­ing­ton, D.C. met­ro­pol­i­tan area.

In 2007, the Black Retail Action Group (BRAG) hon­ored Tay­lor at its 37th annual schol­ar­ship and awards din­ner, acknowl­edg­ing those who have pen­e­trated and embraced the world of beauty in a sig­nif­i­cant way both in front and behind the scenes.  She is also a four-time recip­i­ent of the Ceba Award, a for­mer indus­try award acknowl­edg­ing excel­lence in African-American media, as well as the win­ner of the Asso­ci­ated Black Char­i­ties Image Mak­ers Award, ESSENCE Magazine’s Defin­ing Excel­lence Award, var­i­ous civic awards and cita­tions in recog­ni­tion of her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the empow­er­ment of women around the world.

 

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