Pamela has always felt that she was not meant to work for anyone else but herself, she confessed she has tried but after a few attempts it just never seemed to work out.  Pamela moved to LA in the mid 1970’s and worked as an Executive Assistant for a private non-profit Pamela took control of her future.  Pamela started typing papers and reports on the side which quickly grew into a thriving business where she had 17 people working for her and opened an office on Wilshire Blvd in LA.  Pamela had clients like Kaiser Hospital, Charles Drew Hospital, Hughes Aircraft, who she provided her business with their overload typing demands.   She also was the secretarial service that transcribed medical reports for many of the black doctors in L.A.   Pamela states that one day a clothing store asked her to model.  She thought they were joking since she was plus size.  She saw a fashion magazine BBW, highlight big, beautiful women. She knew then, she could be a plus-size model and took up the offer that was presented to her by the owner of the clothing store.  Two weeks after the show, she received a call from Susan Taylor of Essence Magazine.  She was asked to do a fashion spread for Essence in their May issue.  Pamela became the first plus-size model for Essence magazine.  Her journey wasn’t over, she was asked to be a fit model for fashion designers who wanted to launch their plus-size fashion line in major department stores.   She knew being in the fashion business was her calling but not as a model but as a fashion show producer.  Pamela decided to take a course to learn how to write press releases.  Her instructor owned a public relations firm on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.  She took Pamela under her wing and introduced her to a producer on a popular morning show.  He gave her first break Pamela on local television. The show was such a success, she became the station’s fashion show reporter giving the season’s fashion highlights for plus size women.    

Pamela acquired an agent.  She needed headshot to send out to the fashion industry.  Her agent hired Janet Jackson’s makeup artist. 

Because Pamela knew she wanted to produce fashion shows and not be in them, she formed a production company, Rich-in-Body Productions.  Her first in-store fashion show was Broadway department store.  Word got around and other stores, May Company, Robinson’s, Nordstrom and even Saks 5th Avenue hired her to feature their latest fashions for plus size women.  She became known as “Pamela Springer, the Image-Maker.”

Pamela then started to catch the eye of different celebrities for her fashion expertise for plus sized women like Jenny Jones, and Oprah!  Pamela had her own show on QVC called Full Dimensions, however, in 1993 as the department stores started to go bankrupt the need for fashion shows became obsolete and shifted Pamela into the unknown wondering what was next.  As she sat and contemplated her next career move her roommate Yvonne Rose who was the Vice President for Edgar Morris skin care told Pamela to come and work for the company. 

Pamela was very skeptical as she did not know anything about skin care and was not a salesperson but needed and wanted to make a living, so she went to learn more about the product and the company.  Pamela learned very early on that she liked and believed in the product and actually enjoyed selling it.  She became the National Training Director for Edgar Morris skincare products.  She began recruiting consultants and 2 years later had 600 consultants that she earned a percentage of their business. 

The company had a “take over” with the ousting of the founder, Edgar Morris. The company was eventually sold.  Pamela realized there was a growing need for learning about skin care, and especially products for people of color.  Pamela wanted to ensure her knowledge grew beyond the surface.  Pamela moved to Scottsdale Arizona and enrolled in Aesthetics school.  After graduation, The Corrective Skin & Body Care. Later she met Toni Stockton, M.D, a renowned board-certified dermatologist and professor at the Charles Drew Medical School who gave Pamela a 9-month internship to work with her side by side to learn the skin’s nuances when it came to people of color.  With the education she received, she was offered an opportunity to train aestheticians, speak at medical conference whose initial training did not include diverse skin tones.

After 3 years, of traveling, Pamela, in 2000, she opened The Skin and Makeup Institute of Arizona, the first black owned aesthetics school.  In 2004, she built a 6500 sq. ft school and 6 months later purchased another 3,100 square feet, with 2 locations and a total of 16 employees.

The enrollment included students from other countries, with a 3-month waiting list to enroll.  With the demand, she purchased a town house to create a dormitory.  She said she didn’t want to give that money to the hotels.

In 2009, met with 6 chemist who assisted her in creating a line for the #1 skin condition for people of color, hyperpigmentation (dark spots, discolorations, dark patches, and uneven tones).  She also developed products for men who have beard itch and unruly beards.  Her products are formulated in FDA, certified medical lab in Boca Raton and were launched in 2009.

During a trip to Boca Raton to visit the lab, she visited friends, (Ken and Mary Grant).  Pamela thought the place was nice but was not ready to leave Arizona and her business behind, however, her mother traveled with her to Florida and tried to encourage Pamela to move to The Villages.  In 2015 Pamela decided to sell the school and spend more time with her closest friend her mother until her passing in 2018.  

It was after her mom’s passing that Pamela started to reflect a little more on her life, “I was always working and never had the opportunity to look at all that I had accomplished,” and she also realized it was ok to start to enjoy some of the fruits of her labor.  It was during COVID that Pamela also lost her other best friend her Schnauzer, which really was another painful moment. 

In 2020, The Grants and Harvey Jones, (they grew up in Boston), convinced Pamela to come to the Villages and see what it had to offer, and she decided to take them up on their offer and visit and as they say the rest is history….

Pamela moved to The Villages on October 1st 2020 and rented a Villa, Mary sold her a home and she moved into her new home, November 2nd, Pamela is a full-time resident of the Village of Bradford.  Pamela has started line dancing classes, loves water aerobics, and is one of our distinguished Platinum Members!  Pamela is still on the front lines of skin care and has not slowed down a beat, she has teamed up once again with her old roommate Yvonne Rose who published her book, Don’t be Left in the Dark-Learn How to Master Chemical Peels & More…and is working on her second book, she continues to conduct training.  She is a Continuing Education Provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing.  She’s still ask to speak at conferences,  trains medical spas and spas’ employees to receive certification in skin of color, has an online education platform, and has a product line for corrective skin care on her website at https://globalskincareproducts.com