Statesboro’s 1st Black-owned elegance supply retail store hosts grand opening occasion

STATESBORO, Ga. (WSAV) — The 1st Black-owned magnificence source retail store to open up its doors in Statesboro held a grand opening party on Saturday.

Organization owner LaShayla Lanier operates Tru Hair Palace, when sister Yachi Lee operates Keona’s Kloset, a apparel boutique found upstairs.

Lanier, who also is effective as a rural provider with the United States Postal Assistance, states the strategy for opening up a natural beauty store of her individual came to her last June. 

“I in fact believed of the concept overnight,” Lanier told WSAV.com NOW. “God just spoke to me and explained, ‘it’s time for a change,’ so I was like, ‘this is what I’m destined for, I want to do a hair retailer, a Black-owned elegance source retail outlet entire of necessities.’”

Within just the initially hour and a 50 {170c5dc430f64c583d5107d62ba05598e67e73b9b6a5f140f81c7d71fdb25fb3} of the shop’s ribbon reducing, dozens of thrilled shoppers experienced currently filtered in.

Statesboro Mayor Jonathan McCollar also stopped by the store, found at 3 Simmons Purchasing Middle off North Primary Avenue, to congratulate the females on their important milestone.

Store staff expected patrons to dress in masks and sanitize their arms right before searching.

Lanier claims it felt too much to handle to start out her route as an entrepreneur.

“Since I started off this journey, the neighborhood that has been guiding me and the aid has just created me truly feel like, ‘I personal this, this is what we’re meant to be accomplishing,’” she mentioned.

Tru Hair Palace sells just about almost everything beauty-linked, from human hair extensions and wigs to nail polish, mink lashes and makeup.

Meanwhile, Keona’s Kloset provides the community a variety of attractive clothes attire.

“If you want to glimpse like an Instagram product, that’s where you want to be,” Lee explained.

The sisters say they also help regional Black company owners by carrying and offering some of their products and solutions.

A Nielsen report confirmed that Black consumers expend in excess of $1 billion every year on elegance and cosmetics.

Inspite of this, it has not been as widespread for Black enterprise proprietors to function elegance source shops.

It is a large section of why Lanier resolved to open up her doorways. 

“I felt like which is some thing that belongs to us as Black women, you know, a attractiveness source store,” Lanier mentioned. 

“We have mainly Korean women of all ages [owning beauty supply stores], but we know what we like,” she said. “A Black woman is aware what she needs in her hair, we know what we want our experience to appear like, so I mentioned, that’s anything that belongs to us.”

Alivia Lloyd assisted Lanier with her company’s branding by way of her internet marketing and graphic structure company, King’s Land Advertising.

Lloyd, who suggests she grew to become the initial Black promoting business proprietor in Statesboro over nine years in the past, suggests a business like Lanier’s is essential in the metropolis.

“I imagine this is a thing that’s heading to encourage more individuals out of the Black community to open up organizations,” Lloyd explained to WSAV.com NOW. “I think now we’re really heading to make a footprint in the long run economically, in the group and in the town.”

Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce President Skip Alford shared in a cellular phone interview with WSAV.com NOW that he was very pleased of Lanier’s group and what they’ve completed in the neighborhood.

Lanier’s mother shares the exact sentiments.

“She’s like her father, she’s formidable,” Verna Lanier claimed. “I’m so happy that she’s the first, and I hope she will not be the past.”