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Speaking of Curves: Adding a Little Beauty to the Mix with Necia of Baabs Beauty!
Oct 31, 2024
Heyyyy boo! Welcome back to a new Speaking of Curves Live Interview! Each Tuesday and Thursday, we feature a guest in the plus-size fashion community that we can support and show love to! Today's guest is no stranger to the brand! Necia of Baabs Beauty is more than a beauty line, she also had a spa and boutique!
Join us at 12pm EST as we chat with the business owner, learn how we can support her brand, and talk about a few things beauty!
Grab your coffee, juice, or tea, pull up a chair and join the convo as we talk all things beauty with Necia!
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hello hello hello welcome to speaking of curves i'm marie denae the creator of the kirby
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fashionista and your host for this interview series um if you've been following along
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every tuesday and thursday we have a special guest that we interviewed from the plus size fashion community
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um really to this series is really was made to really support show support introduce interview have
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some fun have some conversation and really drum up like motivation and community because
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right now these times are kind of wild and crazy and having a little bit of support and
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joy trying to find that and sometimes just even being able to have a conversation letting you know that you ain't alone in this like
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wildness like feels good right so as you're joining in you know what to
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do let us know in the comments where you're tuning in from um if this is your first time watching us let us know um you know
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what brought you here if you guys are a fan if this is your first time like hey boo welcome we have fun we have conversations if
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you're returning let us know like hey og here the place been here since day one like i want to hear from you
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so our guest today um you know i am a fan i am a secret
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makeup junkie i have all kinds of different products like i'm constantly
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purging constantly playing around with products and this guest she has her own beauty bar out in green
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is it greensville i think it's greensville in north carolina she has her own cosmetic line she's got lashes she's got
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a lot of things going on and last year at the tcf style expo she was the one in charge of doing all the
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makeup for our models she was our makeup partner and because she has a physical location
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because she's in the plus space i wanted to invite her on to talk about beauty things beauty being
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a business owner how she's pivoting and kind of what to expect from her so do me a favor in welcoming miss
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misha of babbs beauty hello nisha hi hello garland how you doing
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today i am good how are you i'm good thank you so much for joining us
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thank you thank you thank you for inviting me it's always fun to be a part of anything you are
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connected to so thank you oh well i mean like you're hella talented you've got a lot of stuff going
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on so it was nothing for me to support you so you know prior to us doing
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starting this live we were fussing going back and forth because she swears that i am light skinned and i'm like no
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i'm i'm medium i'm i'm like dead center of like you know i'm not like scared about dark skin
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i'm like medium she swears that i am a light skin chick i'ma break out the photos and tell
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her like that's not that's not true i'll let you go with medium but you're definitely
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not
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i know you did my makeup but like so i see you in person i'm trying to tell you like i'm not like
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i'm right in the middle i think because my cousins are like way bright so like i know that
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i'm not light-skinned not then but so you know they say levels to this it's different levels to
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the light-skinned goodness you know there's different levels to the brown-skinnedness
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and the different levels to the chocolate the dark-skinnedness right right and this is this is why we brought
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it this is why we brought it up uh your vet said i'm caramel i'll take that i'll take that to event but she ain't
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sure hot chocolate or chocolate like me i know i'm not i i appreciate a good cup of cocoa and
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hot chocolate but you know like for me i just know like but this is what started it
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because you know i was because we have a beauty person on i had to make sure like that you know my look was good and i got
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a new foundation um i tried the new fenty beauty foundation
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and i had a pic online and that's the scariest thing like shopping for foundations as a black
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woman is already insane but i had to show her and how to get a thumbs up from her like that was my goal and she was like
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you did good girl so i wanted to make sure i did good because like trying to find out the
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colors you know i was i was intense like intense but i am wearing her eyeshadow i don't know
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if you guys can see but you can see it i'm wearing this like really fun
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yummy golden hue and it goes on like butter almost like it's so smooth like
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the application of your of your of your eyeshadows and so um for those people who don't know you
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tell us a little bit about bob's beauty and why you started it okay so
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if if you haven't heard my story it goes like this i was allergic to everything
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and that is really how i started the cosmetic line so um i started out doing makeup
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and doing um other people's makeup and then i was like oh i want to wear more makeup other than
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just you know lip gloss um but then i started having all these weird reactions
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and long story short went to allergist and found out i'm allergic to like a laundry list
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of ingredients it's food it's topical so that's how we figured out it was also
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in like my hair products and um cosmetics and things like that body care and all of that
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um so of course i had my list and i would go shopping with my list and i would still have allergic reactions
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to products that weren't supposed to have ingredients that i wasn't allergic to right so that's when i discovered that
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uh companies do not have to list all of the ingredients if it's under a certain percentage
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but even the smallest percentage for me had me looking like hitch literally and that was not cute so um
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i wanted to come up with a line initially of just lip colors um that were for sensitive
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skin or people with sensitivities and at least if
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it wasn't something that excuse me at least we could go through the ingredient list because i would go to counters and
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be like hey do you have like a full ingredient list and of course they couldn't produce one so at least being able to sit with
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customers and say do you know specifically what you're allergic to let's make sure that's not in this product um but for the majority of products
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i found that i was reacting to the preservatives in products um so if you think about it a lot of
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these larger companies are mass producing products so they have to have preservatives in them right
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because they're making millions of that one lipstick and sending them out to all the stores so that it can last for
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two months three months three years waiting for you to buy it so our products don't have those
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preservatives in them um but it also doesn't cut down on the shelf life um so that's kind of how i started with
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the cosmetics line and uh it grew from the lipstick to the full cosmetic line like you mentioned we
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have foundations lipsticks concealers powders lashes um and then all the accessories that go
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with it as well and so let's see so how long so and you also have
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babs beauty bar like you have a beauty bar in north carolina yes you open this door you open these
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doors in 2012 yes so for those who are in the north carolina area tell us a little bit about
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like what services you provide in this place right so we are in greenville north carolina
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north not south greenville north carolina and we provide um typically
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before you know that little pandemic that we have going on we will provide a full body
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uh waxing uh full body facials lashes hair care skin care
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um of course brows and makeup services so right now we are
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really focusing on the waxing services just because we're not too comfortable
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yet with doing facials um we'll do body facials but anything where the mask comes off we're really
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not comfortable with that right now um but we are a full service beauty bar so we say we do everything besides
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nails okay so when you say facials for the body like what you
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talking about like back facials yes so full body facials so of course
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you know the traditional facial then of course we have back facials so if you have back acne um we do have a facial for that but then
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we also have a full body facial that we offer so full body facial includes a nice exfoliation of your
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whole body your body
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right now is the chocolate mud mask so chocolate a chocolate mask goes all over your body um and that helps to
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provide moisture as well as reduce the appearance of cellulite um and then hey ayanna
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and then uh you get in our shower you rinse it all off and you come back to the spa bed and then we have a chocolate shea butter
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to rub your body down and at the end of this facial honey
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bacon i say chocolate shea butter chocolate shea butter and it smells like chocolate brownies it's so
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luxurious so yeah so it's a full body facial
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i need a full body facial it really is good um especially right now with
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something going on rather than a facial say it again
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i'm being silly i'm being silly pay me no mind pay me i'm being silly okay okay it's okay i
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keep going keep going no no no i was going to say that it's really just a it's a great service to
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have especially um you know right now with um everything that's going on and just that physical touch um it's
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just really therapeutic for people um you know single folks like me
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you know it's very therapeutic you know my clients come in i want to hug them
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and i'm like we got to do air hugs you know um but uh the full body facial is really
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really yummy and luxurious it's great to detox from um the summer and then i also say that
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it's great to detox going from winter into uh was it spring autumn
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to do it with the change of seasons sabrina said i need that sabrina you and i are twinsies like i need uh i called it
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a facial right because you said a body facial so i called it a facial that's what i was saying when i was
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being silly but yes sabrina we both need that we need this in our lives um especially
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when it comes to self-care and interestingly enough you know when i i i've started to talk about beauty more
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on ccf because you know many of us have you know multiple layers of things we love
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things we like and for many of us like beauty is like a thing that
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is you know beauty doesn't discriminate there's no thought there's there's no size limit on on a lipstick or on
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on you know eye shadow and so these are you know ways that we can kind of add to and kind
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of like love on ourselves so whether it's makeup or whether it's like services like facials and facials
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calling you to facial um or you know just a nice skin exfoliation
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or waxing or whatever those things it's necessary and finding ways to kind of take that
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time out for ourselves so you're in north carolina the
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you're kind of like half open half closed right so you're not fully locked down right right
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so we were mandated to close from about mid march until early june
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so we've been open excuse me we've been open since about mid-june uh but with that because of everything
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that's going on we are doing our services by appointment only just so that we can make sure our
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traffic flow is good you know we want to make sure that um it's definitely one service um
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being provided at a time and we try not to have our clients cross paths um just so that's a safe and comfortable
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environment environment for our clients um so we're by appointment only for services
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and we actually change our retail hours to saturdays only um from 11 to 7 p.m and that again is
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just to make sure that we can keep down on that traffic um and still provide a fun but safe experience for all of our
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babs beauties that are coming to visit us um that's good to know so make sure you guys catch that let me drop the link
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here so if you guys want to get more information or make an appointment if you're in the area
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drop in the link right now so for you as a business owner you've been
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in this game for a minute um and this particular like the rhona
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has like come and shown her ass right and so how have you as a business owner been able to kind of navigate this
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space like how how is it on there like mental it's um it's interesting so like we were
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speaking before we went live i am a creature of habits i do not like
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change i'm an only child so i'm spoiled uh so i definitely do not like it i am not
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going to lie or tell a story we're in the country so you're not supposed to say the l word um but
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uh i had a temper tantrum i was i was mad i was upset um you know we're so used to
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the where i'm so used to routines and you know i do this i do this i do this i do this i do this i do this and where
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uh as one of my friends calls it big rona came into town it was like i like that big rona
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yes it was like just just everything came to a screeching
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halt you know we had um things in the works that we had to um put on the back burner
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um of course closing down the shop luckily um we do have our online presence in our
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online community shout out to the babs beauty hangout uh but we have our online community and
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our online store that we were able to kind of pivot more and focus more in that direction than
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our actual storefront at the beauty bar um so we were able to still reach our
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local customers through our online store and through social media
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and through our facebook group to help them kind of get through the challenges of all of your beauty
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spots are closed whatever you do i mean i remember following on twitter
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and like the girls were like okay so what are we doing in in in place of are we just going to grow
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hairy are we just going to let our brows just like do its own thing like what are we doing to maintain and
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manage because for some of us like you said it's like a habit it's how we find our solace how we take care of ourselves
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how we feel good about ourselves and so now that you're kind of like
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you know finding a new sense of normal right because there's no back to the old ways there's no none of
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that that doesn't exist but for you because you had your communities already set up
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you found yourself tapping those and leaning into those communities correct yes yes definitely um and so for if you
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could say to any other business owner who's carnage or aspiring business owner right
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who is coming into who's kind of like this time has been more of a launch pad for some people
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they've started you know they started ideating or planning or putting into fruition like their goals
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and dreams of starting a business what would you say if you could impart one piece of advice especially in this
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transition like what would you say to them oh wow anytime you're gonna ask me those
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type of deep questions no um you just finished so many gyms and i'm hoping that you can reiterate that
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yeah definitely um i would say definitely for service providers um and
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this is something that i was uh i hate to use the word preach but this is something i was preaching before
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being grown up um as service providers you have to have something else right you have to have something else
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because you know what what if you get sick you know what i'm saying what it what if what if you can't provide this you just
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can't provide that service anymore um and then now where we are presently what happens when
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something exterior happens that you have to close your business what do you do in the meantime you know
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so i think the the biggest tip that i always have for entrepreneurs is to diversify your business um so
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that's why when i get all my lives you know i'm like i'm an aesthetician i'm a makeup artist and i'm a
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beauty business educator right so you diversify yourself come on commas
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you diversify your streams of income and but i also like to tag with that you
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diversify in your space right so you know you don't for me this this is my advice
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i say you don't want to and i'll use me for example i don't want to do makeup and bake cakes and sew dresses
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and do event this and do this right you want to diversify in your space so that when people think
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about you they think about oh she does makeup but she also has a
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cosmetic line and she also teaches other people how to do what she does right in that space versus it being
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when they think of nisha well she bakes cakes and she does makeup and she does this does that right what
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what is your space right so diversify your streams of income that are coming in for you but stay within your industry
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and in your space i'm not to say that there is not success in doing something completely left field
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but i think definitely starting out you have to kind of create that niche for yourself um so that people can recognize who you are
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um cat says that misha gets all my money hello that's one of our original
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gangsters our og's i love it i love it that's beautiful hey cat hey girl how you doing now okay
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so you have a lash
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i want to say lash bar or a lash box coming out
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can we talk about that because i am horrible with lashes the most in lashes you don't
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get from me is the mascara made mostly like that's all you gonna get because i can't do
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lashes i'm not like walk me through this hon you can't do it
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you can do it listen and i've seen we've had some of our babs beauties
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here hey y'all hey um so we recently launched if you haven't seen it
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online all over the place it's the new um lash adhesive pin
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um so it's a lash adhesive pan no ayanna you have it don't stop putting that energy out there
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okay you have it she's an og as well oh but
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we have a left adhesive pen so you literally line your eye and you stick
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the lash to the liner so we have it in black and clear of course i picked up the clear one where's my black one
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um here's the black so you line your eye and if you fancy you can do a cat eye
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and all of that you can do that it acts as a liner and the adhesive and you this is sticky so you'll stick your lash
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to that so while we were while we was talking that's what i was doing you saw how quick i put my lashes on
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yeah i mean the liner of the glue part like
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it's not so much my problem it's more about like getting the lash on see that's the good part though
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because the adhesive you're gonna put it your adhesive is gonna go where the liner goes right so that's
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your adhesive and so when you get ready to put your lash on the latch is going to only stick to
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where you have put the adhesive so that's what makes it even easier for you to actually put them on
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i don't believe you i know
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first of all i can't see y'all i can't see y'all right now but i know it's some dance views in the comments that are using the double eyeliner pen
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talk to marie for me tell her she can do it tell her she could do it i mean so tonya
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wants to know how she can get this liner so the liner is on our website
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babsbeauty.com and you can search in the search bar
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adhesive line or pin or you can just click on lashes and it will come up and we do have some bundles
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there as well so we have bundles with the liner as well as with um the mink lashes but you can use any lash
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with a liner pen now is it the liquid of the magnetic liquid liner or the strip lash adhesive
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so it's two different ones so the one that is in this felt tip pen form is the lash
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adhesive i just found it i linked it in the comments for y'all oh she fast
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she fast with it um so cat said it works marine you can
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do it we shall see i feel like i'm being challenged i don't know how i feel about
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that yeah i was trying to get her to do it on on on this little session and she was
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like that's how confident i am
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since i appreciate it however my friends oh she she tried it and she was not a
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lash wear and she texted me and she said girl i have worn lashes three days in a row
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just going to the living room because it's that easy okay well we'll have to see i'm gonna
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give it a whirl because you know lashes are like so scary for me to put on like i've
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tried but i i i believe you i do believe you you shall see um cat said i struggle
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where i struggled i wear glasses and i can do it okay girl see hey you're you're about
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your babies hang out crew is like yo you got this marina they over here encouraging me
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you're gonna be like well we can do this i love it but see keisha is with me keisha said
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i'm so handicapped when it comes to lashes and glue see try the pen i love you keisha
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love you marie try the pen i do appreciate that it's a pen
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i do appreciate that because like it feels familiar like like like i like eyeliner i appreciate
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that so that's that's smart okay here's the thing let me let me go ahead and tell y'all so y'all get on the website and y'all get
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stuff and be like the same work so there's a black and there's a clear
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if you struggle with the placement of your lash get the black that way if you don't get
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it exactly in the right spot the black will camouflage where you messed up until you get it
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together okay it just takes a little bit of practice but the black will camouflage that if
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you're comfortable with your lash placement and you just kind of struggle with getting
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getting the lash up there before the glue dries or you put the lash up there before your glue is
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tacky enough you won't have that problem i love it i love it i love it i mean i'm gonna i'm gonna
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give it a shot you know i never i've never turned down a challenge so you know
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we'll see we'll we have to see honey we shall have to get the best beauties to haze you that's what you're saying
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hey yeah cause you didn't accept my challenge i had to get you publicly chat okay okay right because then because
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then you call me out and then i'm like you know it's public so you know then
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i'm like okay girl okay fine i mean because i actually love a look of a lash
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i love the look of them but all these like tools i'm just like
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okay and then i have like curly lashes so sometimes putting lashes on my lashes like
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they'd be like pimp right because your lashes will push up the strip lash and that's why the
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adhesive pen is good too because it's literally you don't have to wait for it to dry
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um you can just line and put by the time you get your lash where you want it and attach it
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you're good um so it especially works for people that have really curly lashes because that's that's the
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biggest part as a makeup artist when i have clients with curly lashes i'm like their lashes gonna push this
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glue up right and that's in my experience
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i love you i love you too we will we will make this work we will
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make this work okay so tonya says she can't leave the house without her lashes
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i believe this listen i need this is what i need in my life i need um
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some eyebrows i need to get my eyebrows re um i don't want the micro i want nano
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blades i think i know something basically i need some my eyebrows done i need some lashes and i feel like then
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i can just walk out the house i need do you do eyebrows too do i do them
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so i wax and i microblade got you get your whole life like you're like a whole savant when it comes to like the
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beauty side of everything keisha said she wants to be a lash diva
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keisha you and i are going to trot we need we need to try this liner situation with some lashes we need to
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see if we can get our life i'm always here for some innovation and some product like i'm here to put you
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trying new things but the traditional glue and trying to place it and wait till
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it's tacky and doing this like yeah it's too much too much and i always tell folks any like makeup
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is not a one size fits all right so you know people have asked me
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well which one do you like better do you like your traditional adhesive which is just lash glue you like your
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magnetic lashes or do you like the um the adhesive pen that we've been talking about and i tell everybody i'm like it just
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depends it depends on what works for you i go back and forth depending on what
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i've got going on between my adhesive the magnetic lashes the regular lash glue um so it really
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just depends on what works for you and what kind of time you have right so of
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course the pins are the quickest um so it all kind of just depends the
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same way with applying lashes i tell folks sometimes i'm up in the mirror hold on
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can i see i'm in the mirror like this then i might have to do one eye with the mirror down this way
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it just depends what works for you right um and that's why i encourage people
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i just learned that trick you said put the mirror down here and that may work okay right so my right eye i can do
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looking straight into a mirror my left eye i got to come this way
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and sometimes i have to come down depending on what's going on so it's all just a matter of preference and what works for you
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interesting so do me a favor so for those who who are um so for those who are new to your
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brand tell them where they can find you where they can follow you um and
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what you have coming out new for for you know the holiday season yes yes so we are everywhere at babs
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beauty b-a-a-b-s beauty um so instagram facebook
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are you on twitter we are on the twitter we're on the now band i think tick tock
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um you're coming back girl it ain't not nowhere just yet okay well i know it's on my phone but we
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are on all social media uh youtube everywhere at bab's beauty and our website is babsbeauty.com
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we do have a private facebook group which is the babs beauty hangout
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if you are watching this we will let you in
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but you better go ahead and search and join in the meantime because that um that
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that changes where we don't uh just allow everybody but y'all the friends of marie so we'll let you in
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into the group okay yes y'all are friends y'all get the hook up um okay so what is new what is new
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we do have um some top secret stuff that i can't talk about
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sorry we'll be talking about it soon of course the people in the group will get it first um but but we do have some
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goodies that are coming for black friday and the holidays and so
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this lovely palette right i have that one that's that's the one i have this one right here she's called
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bloodberry and she has a matching lip color
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a matching lip color that is super super deep um it kind of resembles what marie has on now i'm not sure what you have on
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now but it kind of looks like that and uh what we have come in for a
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holiday is i don't even know if i want to tell
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y'all
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