About Blue Sky Body Care

Michael has spent most of his life in the professional beauty industry, starting with the widely renowned company Jhirmack, working under the mentorship of teacher and friend Jheri Redding. In the 1980s his close friend Paul Mitchell teamed with John Paul Dejoria and invited Michael to help create one of the most prestigious beauty companies in the world — Paul Mitchell Systems. With Paul’s blessing, he then segued to the Colorbrites beauty team, serving as that company’s national director.

In the 1990s, while working with Colorbrites, Michael founded his own side company, Metropolis Technology, where he pioneered unique and innovative products, turning them into well-known brands for the professional hairstyling industry. He carries a lifetime of experience in that industry, combined with long-standing expertise in alternative energy and soil science.

His affinity for this planet’s continued good health has never wavered and he continues to educate and advocate for environmental prudence and moderation. He is an accomplished, knowledgeable, and engaging public speaker, advocating for American fuel reform and responsible soil science by promoting affordable and under-utilized natural resources. Michael is a life-long animal rights activist and, as a marine naturalist, he has spent half his life scuba diving and kayaking around the world.

In 2010, having brought his personal and professional passions full circle, Michael founded Blue Sky Biochar to promote, not only the notion of sustainable and regenerative soil health but the means by which to make it practical. In 2019 Michael teamed with his long-time friend and widely respected beauty expert Enrique Martinez to found New Mexico-based Blue Sky Body Care. The company’s simple-yet-dynamic premise was to establish a core collection of elemental body care products centered on the remarkably potent moisturizing properties of natural Yucca root.

Blue Sky Body Care is the culmination of environmentally responsible practices brought to bear on a lifetime of beauty experience, creating a line of all-natural products that are healthful, organic, and conscientiously crafted.

Within a year Enrique’s career was off and running, landing a highly coveted position at the legendary Umberto’s Hair Salon in Beverly Hills, where he regularly catered to the most demanding styling needs of Hollywood royalty and California’s business elite, attracting an ever-expanding following. Already highly regarded so early on in his profession, Enrique was no mere stylist. His genuine interest was in the organic and practical health of every head of hair, and he continued to develop innate expertise in complex hair solutions, advanced color techniques, and problem scalps, placing him in ever greater demand.

By 1990 he had outgrown Umberto’s and set his sights on the fresh canvas (and less demanding pace) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he launched his own boutique salon — Enrique’s. Here he would continue to develop his craft with a more down-to-earth clientele, people whose real-world hair and scalp challenges needn’t be met with a Beverly Hills price tag.

Ever socially conscious and always invested in the welfare of fellow stylists, Enrique worked closely with Santa Fe’s mayor, city council, and independent stylists, and was instrumental in the rewriting of local laws regarding the expansion of home-based styling businesses.

Initially inspired by his mother’s long-held passion for and encyclopedic interest in plant extracts and herbal remedies, Enrique has spent 40-plus years expanding his own knowledge of alternative and organic health practices, absorbing much of his mother’s practical experience from her youth in Mexico, where entire communities commonly relied on the Yucca plant as an effective shampoo and healthful cleaning agent.

In 2019 he and long-time friend and respected peer Michael Wittman decided to pool their collective environmental, organic, and beauty industry expertise to establish Blue Sky Body Care.

Enrique continues to operate his Santa Fe boutique salon with a loyal and expanding client base boasting a high level of satisfaction. He is an active member of the AA community with over 40 years of humble recovery to his credit. He is widely recognized for his community eldership and honored experience, and endeavors to maintain his spiritual practice by daily example.