A Whitesboro hair stylist won an assistant position at New York's Fashion Week. YNN's Andrew Sorensen has her story.

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ONEIDA COUNTY, N.Y. -- Courtney Baker has been styling hair for the better part of a decade. She works for herself, and rents space in the Whitesboro salon, Hair Razors.

But she's about to find herself somewhere slightly more extravagant: the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. Baker will be working at the international event that starts on Thursday.

Baker never really fancied herself a writer, yet her writing wowed somebody enough to score the opportunity of a lifetime.

About two months ago, Courtney sat down to enter a Redken essay contest. She wrote it out on her iPad and sent it in. It took her twenty minutes to write the 150 word essay, but two months to hear back.

She did eventually receive a call from Redken saying that she was going to assist their creative consultant, Guido, at Fashion Week in New York.

"The first thing I did was [I] made a few phone calls," Baker recalled, "And then of course I updated my Facebook status, and let all of my clients and my friends know I was going to be down there."

Courtney and another contest winner will be assisting Guido for four days during the event.

"He is a very interesting creator," she said of his work.

What will she be helping to create? Pretty much anything the designers in the show want.

Baker speculates that she will be working with "lots of up-dos and funky hairstyles, coloring, cutting, hair designing."

She was not, of course, the only one excited about the trip. Her customers get to say their stylist worked New York's Fashion Week.

"They're excited for me to come back," she said. "[To] let them know everything that I've learned and everything that I've done, and hopefully give them a cool hairstyle or hair color."

She won't get paid for the work, but Baker said it's definitely worth the experience.