Author. Beauty Boss. Speaker. Empowering women through beauty, resilience & unapologetic authenticity.
Author · Speaker · Houston Salon Owner
Three books. Twenty-plus years behind the chair. One mission: to say out loud what women have been quietly surviving, and to make them laugh, cry and feel a whole lot less alone while she does it.
Your body filed for divorce. Nobody told you where to send the paperwork.
Every woman in Janelle’s salon chair seemed to be falling apart in the exact same way, at the exact same time, convinced she was the only one. The chin hairs. The rage. The hormone pellet nobody warned her about. MENO POSSE is the girlfriend’s guide nobody hands you at the gynecologist’s office: part memoir, part salon-chair confessional, and a long-overdue permission slip to laugh your way through menopause instead of white-knuckling it alone.
From a laugh-out-loud menopause survival guide to two of the most honest memoirs you will ever read, every Janelle Alexis book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books and wherever books are sold.
Menopause and midlife, told girlfriend-to-girlfriend: hot flashes, hormones, chin hairs, marriage, friendship, and laughing through all of it.
One mother's decades-long fight to save her daughter from borderline personality disorder and addiction, and the love that still gets the final word.
A raw, 28-chapter memoir of betrayal, addiction, divorce and reinvention: from building a beauty empire to rebuilding a life with the lenses shattered.
Janelle Alexis Flatt has spent more than two decades behind the chair, building Janelle Alexis Salon in Houston’s Tanglewood/Galleria area into one of the city’s most-loved luxury salons and training stylists nationwide as an educator for Babe Hair Extensions, Marcia Keratin and Global Keratin.
Behind the glamour was a life that read like a twisted fairy tale: betrayal, divorce, a daughter’s battle with borderline personality disorder and addiction, and a long road back to herself. She turned all of it into books that women pass to each other like a secret: proof that you can lose almost everything and still come back sharper, funnier and freer.
Known to her 25,000+ followers as @houstonhairbabe, Janelle holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Houston-Downtown and speaks to audiences about resilience, reinvention, midlife and building a business on your own terms.
“I spent years trying to be the lighthouse for someone who preferred the storm. Eventually I realized the waves weren’t drowning her. They were drowning me.”Janelle Alexis, Was It Worth It?
Living Magazine Best Of winner, Modern Luxury Power Players, Leading Women 2026 and more.
Janelle speaks to women’s conferences, corporate ERGs, book clubs, beauty industry events and wellness audiences on:
Authentically Beautiful is Janelle’s jewelry line: meaningful necklaces designed as daily reminders of courage, calm and inner strength. A portion of every purchase supports women’s mental health initiatives.
Luxury color, hair extensions, keratin smoothing, bridal and special-occasion styling by Janelle and her team at 5750 Woodway Dr, Suite 110, Houston, TX 77057.
Janelle Alexis Flatt is a Houston author, keynote speaker, national hair educator and the owner of Janelle Alexis Salon in the Tanglewood/Galleria area. She has written three books with Beyond Publishing: MENO POSSE, Was It Worth It? and Rose Colored Glasses, all released in 2026. Online she is known as @houstonhairbabe.
Three books: MENO POSSE, a laugh-out-loud girlfriend’s guide to menopause and midlife that hit #1 on Amazon; Was It Worth It?, a mother’s raw memoir about loving a daughter through borderline personality disorder (BPD) and addiction; and Rose Colored Glasses, her 28-chapter memoir of betrayal, divorce and rebuilding. See all three on the Books page.
Yes. Her full name is Janelle Alexis Flatt. Some editions and retailers list her as Janelle Alexis and others as Janelle Alexis Flatt. Both refer to the same Houston author.
Every title is available on Amazon (paperback, hardcover and Kindle), Barnes & Noble and Apple Books, and wherever books are sold. Was It Worth It? and Rose Colored Glasses are also available as audiobooks.
Yes. Janelle speaks on resilience and reinvention, women in midlife and menopause, parenting through mental illness and addiction, and building a beauty business. Visit the Speaker page or submit a speaking request.
Yes. For book club sets, corporate gifts, signings or event copies, reach out through the contact page. Book clubs can also use the free Rose Colored Glasses Book Club resources.
Authentically Beautiful is Janelle’s jewelry line of meaningful necklaces, each one designed as a reminder of inner strength. A portion of proceeds supports women’s mental health initiatives. Shop the collection at urauthenticallybeautiful.com.
Janelle Alexis Salon is at 5750 Woodway Dr, Suite 110, Houston, TX 77057. Book color, extensions, keratin, styling and bridal services through the appointment page or at janellealexissalon.com.
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