Nancey Collette, founding director of Color Beyond Ink, a first of it's kind non-profit organization dedicated to the amending of physical and emotional afflictions of scarring, sees the beauty of 'what makes you look like you' exciting, natural, and above all, normal. She takes this to heart.  

What describes normal?  For Nancey, it is her walking stick.  That means doors get held open and handicap parking spaces mean, handy.  In the summer months normal means her surgery scars may show a bit more but that’s okay.  Because what normal really means, in her opinion, is a desire to help others who, when afflictions have overwhelmed, don’t know where to turn.    

 

Launching Color Beyond, Inc., in 2008, alongside her career as a grand master nail artist marked a milestone.  "Reaching out to accommodate those whose needs surpass the

normal spa and salon menu is what beauty is meant to be,” she says.

 

 

"I often speak to people who are in discouragement because of an inability to have bodily scars amended. A physical handicap, perceived imperfection, or mental barrier to the body beautiful is a defeat only if the mind allows it to become one. Color Beyond, Ink  is a new light, transforming the darkness of distress into a brilliant rainbow of color. It is a light that shines on and on, permanent and very beautiful."

Each member of our board has, either through the routine of daily work or by personal involvement in civic activities for the general good of his or her community, a strong commitment for advancing the wellness of life for those less fortunate. Impacting the lives of those in need so that those persons may be restored in dignity and self esteem is our concern.

We are diverse in occupation, locale, life achievements and ways of helping others, but have as our belief a unified desire to improve the emotional and physical circumstances occasioned in life by those we seek to serve.