For this special Fashion Week edition of How I Get It Done, we’re asking successful women about managing their careers and lives during this hectic time of year.

Justine Marjan is a lifelong beauty lover. She spent her teen years as a receptionist at a salon before moving to L.A. post–cosmetology school and landing not one but two assistant roles to celebrity hairstylists Kristin Ess and Jen Atkin, respectively. From there, she built up an impressive celeb clientele of her own including Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Ashley Graham, and Olivia Culpo. 

Now TRESemmé’s global stylist, she’s in high demand for Fashion Week with a busy schedule of back-to-back shows. You can find her backstage bringing a client’s vision to life and capturing content to share on social media with her nearly 500,000 followers. The L.A.-based new mom balances her heavy workload with video calls home to her husband and son, workouts at Y7, and (when there’s time) dinners with her team. When the day’s done, she unwinds with gummy vitamins and a sound machine-and-earplug combo to block out the bustling city noises, occasionally skipping the parties and late-night events to be up for early call times. 

On a typical day during Fashion Week:
I have different commitments that vary from season to season and day to day. So the days will either consist of hair tests, meetings with designers, shows, doing clients’ hair, panels or events, teaching classes, rec-reating looks on influencers, maybe getting a fitness class in, and dinners or lunches with colleagues or my hair team.

I work with an agency and I also work with TRESemmé, the official hair sponsor of New York Fashion Week. As their global stylist, I’ve had the opportunity to work with them through six years of Fashion Week shows, two seasons each year. They also will help kind of schedule my commitments throughout the week.

We usually have to get to shows about four hours before showtime. If it’s a morning show or a presentation, that sometimes means we have to arrive as early as 4 or 5 a.m. In that case, I might try to blow-dry my hair the night before so it’s really quick for me to get ready and head out the door. If the shows are later in the day, I may spend more time getting ready and having breakfast, maybe…