Hazel had never really got on with her parent, especially her dad. He was incredibly controlling and threw a giant fit when he found out she was going to fashion school, not a big fancy college to continue the family legacy to study business so she could run her dad's company / her family legacy. She didn't care, so she left. Thankfully the college was in New York, on the opposite ends of the states to her home town of Berk in California. Hazel had always been creative. She had turned the old shed at the back of garden into a craft hut when she was fourteen. She spent more time there than anywhere else. Her school life wasn't any better. Her cousin and his friends made her high school experience hell. She hated them and they hated her, but Hazel didn't have an evil bone in her body so she couldn't really stand up for herself. It made it even better when she got into a fashion school on the other side of the country. And after her final year, she never went back. She didn't need to. Everything Hazel needed was in New York. She saw no reason to go back to Berk, ever.

Hazel had spent the last six years, since she graduated for fashion school, building her fashion empire with her two best friends, Cami and Heather. The empire was split into three parts. Finances, Publishing and Design. Cami was in charge of finances, Heather was publishing and Hazel did design. She had picked and approved of any designs. She also made a good few herself. The main ones at least or if she couldn't find what she wanted. Cami and Heather had grown up together. Heather was Hazel's room-mate throughout the four years of college. The first was by chance, the other three was because they all had weekend jobs and purchased a massive loft together just outside the city. They all had cars so it wasn't a problem getting to and from the college and work. Heather, although she was working on a degree in fashion design, she was also doing a part time publishing course at the local community college. They were all really good friends and loved working together. They were there for each other, even when a one-night stand left Heather pregnant with twins two years ago. They weren't able to track the guy down, which turned out to be a good thing as Heather's older brother, Dagger, wanted to kill him for getting his baby sister pregnant. Hazel helped her through it all. She planned a brand new baby line just for them and held Heather's hand while she was in labour. Everyone had fallen in love with Peter and Riley as soon as they saw them. They both had soft brown hair and light brown / hazel eyes. Hazel was more than willing to be their god-mother. She loved spoiling them and loved her, sometimes more than Heather herself.

Even though all three of them had started, and ran, the empire together, it was really just Hazel's. She brought them together, named the business and designed it. Her image is what made the empire what it was. Hazel was the reason Dragon Design was world-wide and on its way to being the biggest fashion brand in the world.