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I hired Julie Occhino Luxury Beauty for hair and makeup services for my upcoming wedding. She took at $960 deposit last October and then stopped answering my attempts to contact her. I have attempted multiple forms of communication to get in touch over the last two months. Those forms of contact included email, text, phone call and leaving voice messages, direct messages on instagram and HoneyBook and calling her salon phone number listed on google which is no longer in service. As of this morning, my latest emails now come back as undeliverable, whereas before I received an automated reply that someone would get back to me in 48 hours which never happened. Her website is also no longer up as of this morning. Based on this, I believe she is issuing contracts with clients and taking hefty deposits for services she doesn’t intend to provide. As one can imagine, a bride can’t wait for her to not show up the day of so despite having given her all that money, I now had to secure another vendor for the same services and pay them a deposit and am currently working through a chargeback process with my credit card company. Her linked indicates that’s she’s teamed up with a CPA in Texas and the basis of their partnership is “Profit First”. The name of that business is Mariga CPA PLLC. My hopes in submitting this is that someone is able to look into this and take action to prevent her from scamming other people into signing contracts, taking their money and disappearing.