A bona fide city girl, Kim grew in up in Chicago and made her move to the east coast when she attended Boston University, graduating with a degree in Communication. Continuing to city hop, after graduation Kim moved to New York City where she discovered the depths of the beauty industry working in the beauty closet at SELF. Kim turned her love for mascara, cheek stains and any product that will give her hair that extra lift, into a career, covering both ends of the spectrum as both a publicist and chronicling her beauty finds for Above the Fray.