Meet Dyamond Thomas | License, professional nail technician

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dyamond Thomas and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dyamond, can you tell us more about your background and the role it’s played in shaping who you are today?
I’m from Houston, Texas I was born and raised here and I’ve always been different. I’ve always been different from other family members and I’ve been different from my peers in school. When I was in school I got bullied from the 3th grade to the 11th grade, I developed tourette syndrome when I was in third grade and I went to this Christian academy and it was horrible because the teachers bullied me and the students and when I got home I felt alone in a sense because I was so different. I’ve always seen things in a different light and way. I went through a lot of emotions when I was a little kid and growing up thought about dying at the age of 10 because I didn’t want to live anymore and I hated myself so I thought about suicide from the age of 10 to up to 21 and when I was in middle school I started cutting myself on my left arm. I head over 300 cuts. My family didn’t understand me and neither did any of my peers so that push me into a deep deep depression because I was so misunderstood and I was so different from everyone and it’s like I would go to school and get bullied and then I would come home and then I would face opposition at home from my family because they did not understand what I was going through and they did not understand me in a sense when I was growing up I always felt like I was alone. I was never loved. Even though my family did love me. I felt like I was just a weird one and a burden I felt like I was by myself and that I was alone like I didn’t have anybody to talk to and from my standpoint I really didn’t growing up. My childhood was okay but I did go through abuse verbal and emotional and psychological and when I got whoopings it would be extensive. They were happy moments and there were moments where I feel like. I just wanted to crawl under a rock and not come out. And I know what I’m saying might make some of my family members angry. But it’s the truth and growing up I didn’t really have a voice. I would always be shut down by some of my family members. Like for instance, I feel like a Barbie doll. Somebody would always dress me up and have me how they wanted me to be and I didn’t like that. I didn’t like the clothes that they would dress me up in it. I felt horrible. I didn’t like it and then when I was in middle school and went through my emo stage it got a lot worse. The bullying and being bullied at home it’s like I went out into the world and got hurt and then came home and got hurt. I remember I was having tourette syndrome episodes and one of my family members asked me why do you do that? I said I only do it around people that I feel comfortable with. And he told me. Well don’t be comfortable around me or stop making that damn noise. And another family member of mine would always tell me. Oh dyamond you’re so pretty but you’re fat and no man would ever want you because you’re fat. And she would say oh dyamond. You have such a pretty face but you know it’s killing it. You being fat. It was heartbreaking because it was my own family telling me this and one time they even said you will never get a man because you make noise referring to my tourette syndrome. And I said you know what if my man don’t like my noise then he really don’t need to be with me and she said you know what you’re right but a lot of my life I struggle to love who I was. I struggle to love myself. I struggle to find out who I really was and what my purpose really was. It was always negative around me and negativity at every corner but I kept pushing through and I kept a smile on my face. Even on the inside I was so miserably, sad and miserable within my own self. It took a long time to finally love me to finally love what I look like to finally love the color of my skin because for a long time I hated the fact that I was black and I wanted lighter skin or I wanted to be somebody else and when I started dating I didn’t date my own race because my own people tortured me when I was growing up in school because I was different and because I had tourette syndrome and now that I’m an adult some of my family members do understand and some of my family members have just stayed the same. But in my growing I found myself who I am, what I am with. My purposes and with Yahweh the high holy creator of the heavens, the universe and the earth I Begin to find myself at the age of 23. I’m 26 now and I’ve done a lot of growing a lot of healthy, light, positive growing. And I also struggled with addiction. When I was growing up in the third grade I started watching porn that was a struggle in itself because I was around 9 years old when I started watching porn and that addiction was so strong because when I was a little I would watch like 4-6 porn movies a day and sometime I will watch them through the night. When I had my phone and middle school I watched it on my phone. I watched porn everywhere When I was in third grade we had like four desktop computers and I gave them all viruses because I was watching porn constantly and when I was in middle school on the weekends I wouldn’t even go outside because I would be watching pornos all day and it was hard to break that it was really hard from the age of 9 to 23 it was a hard addiction to break. People don’t think that you can get addicted to that and that was another hard thing growing up because when I got caught I got my butt beat really bad and what I didn’t understand was I was getting beat for watching porn but I caught my adult family members watching porn but they would beat me for watching it. I didn’t understand that. So growing up was a challenge mentally, spiritually and physically as a little one growing up that were a lot of happy moments and there were a lot of moments where I just didn’t want to be here anymore and being addicted to porn it’s like being addicted to crack a heroin and it’s hard to get off of it, especially on the spiritual side when you have demons and emps and evil wicked spirits always pulling and nagging at you. It’s hard. It’s hard going through that. It’s hard to stay happy through that when you’re a little kid and when you’re a teenager and You’re growing up to being an adult and you’re not understanding everything Or yourself. But like I say, what the help of Yahweh and the kodesh malakem I stay protected and was able to pull out of all of the darkness in the pervertedness that had grabbed a hold of me when I was little. When you’re chosen and selected and the elect by the great I am that I am. You will have those spiritual challenges that will come up against you because they don’t want you to know who and what you are. What your purposes is They want you to stay in the dark. They don’t want you to be in the light so I was consumed with darkness growing up and I broke out of it and I stand strongly and firmly in the light and in the positivity of the great I am that I am

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
Well how I got started doing nails was after I graduated high school. I didn’t know what to do and I pray to Yahweh and I found myself painting my nails 8 hours a day and my sister noticed it and she bought me a whole bunch of nail stuff and from there I practice and I excelled and it wasn’t easy because this is my first business and there was a lot of things that I had to learn in business that I did not know. There were a lot of mistakes that I made with clients in this journey and I’ve learned from those mistakes I am most proud of me pushing through all of the things that I go through and have been through. I have tourette syndrome and I also have seizures and I also don’t know why I started having seizures. This started back in 2020 and I have not stopped doing nails even though I have seizures on my clients and I have episodes of my clients. I keep pushing forward the best way that I can The lessons that I learned along the way is never judge. Someone never talk down upon them. I’ve never done those things but being in the profession that I’m in and working different places. You see what other people do and you learn from that. And you always stay humble no matter what. Always stay humble and always do your best even though you may not feel good and always show up even if everybody else doesn’t. When you have consistency the consistency will stand out. It will push you to keep going for even though you’re the only one. Or even though you want to stop what I want people to know about my brand. And my story is even though I face oppositions everyday, I still keep going. I still don’t accept no for an answer. I want people to see me and say if she can do it I can do it too. I want to inspire everybody that I come across because everybody has challenges everybody has to work through something and break through everything that tries to hinder them. I want people to see me and know what I go through and no that they can still keep going no matter how bad it gets and that they need to believe in themselves more and surround themselves with people that will love them and uplift them and to know that sometime the road does get lonely. But when you pray, God will bring everything that you need to surround you to uplift you and to make you sore higher than all of the adversaries around you

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Well to be honest I don’t drive anymore because I have seizures so and when I did drive I would constantly go to the beach. So I would say go to the beach go horseback riding. Maybe go to the mall. Go get a snow cone to be honest. Then it hurts to say this. I don’t get out at all and it makes me sad that I don’t get up because of what I go through so there’s a lot of things that I can’t do because if I get over stimulated I’ll pass out or I’ll have a conscious seizure. I would say go to the movies but I haven’t been to the movies in 3 years because of what I go through and if I had to go somewhere to eat and maybe to the turkey leg hut or maybe the butterfly museum but to be in all honesty I really don’t know because I don’t get out anymore 🙁

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
And the biggest shout out goes to the great creator Yahweh I am that I am because without Yahweh I wouldn’t be here and I would have to thank my family because without them and without what I’ve been through I wouldn’t be who I am today and I also would like to shout out my best friend (Dr.purple💜) She is so amazing and in my process of growth she has helped me a lot and with the help of her in assisting in my process of healing Yahweh will send people to you to help you and I would like to shout out my friend Gaile white she also has tourette syndrome and we found each other off of social media and she’s helped me a lot and also my friend La toya she is also helped me and encouraged me through this process as well and all my friends that I have. Thank you

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