The Beauty Bar Spa and Boutique | Local Leaders the podcast #192

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to
another edition of Local Leaders of the podcast.

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And look y'all. You know that
we love the Chamber of Commerce around

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here and we really love the awards
that the Chamber gives out every year.

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Now, last year I was blessed
to receive the New Business of the Year

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awards. So at this year's event, you know, it kind of meant

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something that I attend and see who
kind of got that baton? And the

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young lady sitting across from me was
who did that? It is the owner

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of the Beauty Bar Spying boutique and
Walker and I want to welcome Mikayla Milligan

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to Local Leaders podcast. Oh thank
you so much for having me. Well,

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we're excited to talk all about beauty
with you and of course the subject

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that you know I would need some
help with, let's be honest. So

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I had miss Cindy Everton, who's
sitting across from us as well, join

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us today. So welcome Cindy the
Local Leaders here your second appearance. I

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know, so you you excited as
well. I am very good, very

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good. Lots of questions, lots
of questions. I bet Mikayla has a

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lot. Yeah, I think she's
got a lot, that's right, and

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you're a licensed estation esthetician close.
And the bad thing is, if you

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can see my notes, I actually
have it in there hyphenated close you want

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work on it? Uh and obviously
the owner of the beauty bar. So

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before we really get into everything amazing
about your business, we want to talk

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a little bit about you before you
got in that business. You have a

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unique story because you're you're younger,
yes, and from a very young age

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you kind of knew what you wanted
to do. Tell us about that.

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So, like you said, from
a very young age, I've just always

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had a passion for the beauty industry
and fashion. It's always been like my

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thing. Even as a little girl, I was dressing up and putting heels

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on, and all my brother's girlfriends
I would like be like, let's play

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dress up, or I'd be like, let me put your prom shoes on.

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So I've just always kind of been
into that and gosh, growing up,

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I was like, I don't know
what I want to do. I

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don't know. I just had a
passion for the beauty industry. And I

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was like I heard about cosmetology and
I was like, okay, well I

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don't really want to do hair.
That's not my thing. I don't think

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I have the patience for it.
So then I heard about esteology and I

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was like, that's it. Yeah, just the whole skin and there's a

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lot of science that goes behind it
that it's really interesting, right. So

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I heard about that and I was
like, yeah, this is what I

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wanted to do. So and tell
us about what what is that for those

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that may and I know a lot
of ladies would probably be familiar, maybe

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not as many men, kind of
break down what that is. Yeah,

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So it's like a skin doctor,
but not a dermatologist. Facials. We

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do a lot of facials. We
help with you know, hyper pigmentation,

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acne oily skin, dry skin,
things like that, and just help diagnose

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old skin. We can help,
you know, and then also prescribe I

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guess products to go home with and
try new things and new skincare routines.

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And it's a it's a huge thing
because what you're doing is you're helping with

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people's confidence absolutely a lot of times
absolutely, and that's a big thing nowadays,

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you know, social media, everybody
wants to compare to what she's doing

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down the road or oh, what's
you know, what's her status? And

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it's like confidence is a big thing, especially nowadays for us women. It's

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confidence is huge. I would say. So, I've got twin girls that

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are eighteen, and you know,
I've kind of seen that with them,

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and how how just little things like
and give them a little bit more confidence.

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And so sydy you agree with that
that? Yeah, I mean I

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know you had you have a young
one. She's still young, she still

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have two young ones. Yeah,
and I absolutely agree with that. But

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one of the things that I actually
going off script, that's all right,

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I am me. It leads into
one of the things that I wanted to

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say. It's on this brochure.
I did not know this. I had

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not read this, and when I
walked into your place yesterday, I immediately

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felt this. And you said,
you deserve to feel gorgeous. That's why

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we provide superior skincare, lashes and
fashion under one roof you. We are

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your spin and boutique. You belong
here, and I promise you. I

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had not read that when I walked
in, and when I left, I

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felt beautiful. I literally looked at
every single item and said, someone will

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feel pretty in this it's not for
me, but that will be for someone.

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And from the skincare to the cute
little ani bacterial things you have,

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your earrings, like their shoes,
everything you have in there is going to

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make someone feel beautiful. I mean, I mean, I mean that.

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So when I read this, I
was like, you have hit the mark.

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And to be so young and just
know what you're you know one hundred

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percent. And that's that kind of
leads me into the next thing I wanted

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to talk to you about, which
is the fact that you are so young

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and you are an entrepreneur. That's
that's. Look how you're I never asked

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a woman of age, but I'm
twenty one, twenty one, y'all,

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twenty one ownings are in business,
a business, award winning business owner.

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And here's the thing. Not many
twenty one year olds have taken that step.

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When I was twenty one, you
didn't want me out in the business.

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Yeah, a huge, But I
guess I can say I got that

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from my family. Yeah. Just
my family owns their own businesses. So

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my dad he does the rental property, and my mom owns total living care.

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So it's like everybody does it in
the blood. Yeah, exactly,

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working for other people just didn't work
out for me, and I was like,

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this is what I want to do. I always kind of had that

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entrepreneur but energy. Yeah, it
really is. And in a rare quality

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that I love to see these days
is our young people taking ownership of their

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own businesses. And so shout out
to you for that. Now. I'm

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sure it was something that maybe you
kind of went back and forth on.

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It was nervous maybe, and you
know, hopefully this works. I don't

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want to fail. Honestly, I
was so confident when I started. I

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was like, this is I'm ready, you know, bring it on.

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But obviously it is a leap of
faith. It's something I had my parents

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by my side for one hundred percent
all the way, So shout out to

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them. They're amazing. And just
surrounding yourself with family and friends and having

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those support people. Yeah, you
so that was a big My best friend

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Ariel, she's been by my side
throughout the whole thing. I mean,

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we were tagging clothes at midnight,
you know, we had late nights,

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and she's been there, you know, unpaid, and she was just by

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my side helping me. And now
she's manager at the beauty bar and she's

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about to start school at massage therapy
bringing that But no, I mean it

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just all goes back to the support
and having that confidence that's right, and

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and derived from that support of other
people in your life that are telling you

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can do it, you know,
and you just have to be all in,

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Yeah, that's the thing. You
got to give it to y'all and

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be like, Okay, giving it
everything I got. This is what I

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want to do. It's going to
work, that's right, twenty one years

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old energy. You have to add
bless yeah, it really is. And

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you got to have that belief in
yourself that hey, I'm willing to put

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in the work, but I know
I can do it yea. And so

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I love that. Now. Your
business opened in twenty twenty three, was

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it June tenth? June tenth was
our grand opening, and honestly, blew

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it out the water. I was
like amazed. We had to advertised it

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on social media like every day.
We had a little countdown going on,

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and there were so many people just
to support. Was like a relief.

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It's like, oh my god,
this is going to work. Yeah,

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Like I'm gonna make it. It's
great. It was also makes me cheer

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up talk about it. But it's
awesome. Well, I'll tell you what,

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You'll never forget it. You know, it's just an amazing experience and

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all of us here are business owners
and you always remember that first day absolutely

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y. Yeah, never forget it. And so when you start what how

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did you decide? Did you start
with all of the services that you have

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available now or did you like just
kind of most of them? I did

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offer. Some of them are kind
of like newer, like the bum bum

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treatment or what else? Did I
add just a couple other services that I

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got trained in after or you know, I like to continue my education and

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take more classes, and I feel
like the more the better. Yeah,

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in the industry is constantly changing.
Everybody is different, everybody wants different services

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and different things done. So it's
good to have a variety of services.

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Sure, so you have a little
something for everybody. Well, so you

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brought up the bumbum treatment. That
was going to be one of my questions

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because as a fifty two year old, the bum bomb is not where it

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used to be, and I'm very
interested, so selfishly, like does it

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do like it? Does it help
with cell you? Like you said,

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smoothing, right, yeah, so
it can help titan. It's basically a

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facial for your Yeah. But yeah, so it's all the things we cleanse,

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exfoliate, the face mask, you
know, the steam, the cooling.

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We even do a jelly mask on
their so all the things it.

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You get the full treatment if you
need any extractions or anything like that.

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You know, some people are you
know, I've been blessed with no issues

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like that, I have to say
that, but I do have the dimples

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and all of that. So it's
definitely like a little refreshing treatment. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's amazing. Well,
I love that. And the other

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one that I'm interested in because I
honestly have never done it before is waxing.

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Okay, waxing is awesome. Yeah, try it. Yeah, yeah,

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so I know the benefits of like
know ing grown hairs, right,

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and then I'm sure it lasts longer
than it does. So the more you

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wax, the less hair grows.
Over time. You know, you'll start

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to notice it'll get like thinner or
patchy, you know, just to where

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it's not like thick and everywhere,
right right, Yeah, and so you

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do the full like so some of
your waxing surfaces, or you have your

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arms. I go through those with
me. Yeah. So waxing, I

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do eyebrows, lip we do,
nose waxing, earwaxing, arms, under

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arms, I do bikini lines and
legs basically anything else. If a man

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comes in, I'm not gonna say
what about like bodybuilders that do their chests

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and stuff. I've done a chest
wax on a man before. I mean,

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do you trim the hair or do
you just go full end? It

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depends on how long it is,
because I don't want it to be too

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long, because then it's just a
mess. But if it needs to be

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trimmed, I'll trimmed down a little. And let me tell you from a

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man's perspective, and and uh,
I mean I shake my chest yeah,

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and my arms yeah. And uh, I can tell you that it is

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a pain just because it's it's I
mean not that I'm not like a bear,

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but I keep it trimmed all the
time, you know, so so

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it wouldn't be anything big as far
as that goes. For men that really

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do that. Bodybuilders they constantly uh
shave you know, legs, even bodybuilders

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shave their legs. Right, swimmers, I mean, yea yeah, longer

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than just how long does it last? Did you say it depends? It's

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different on everybody, you know,
it depends, would you say more than

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like several weeks? Yeah? On
some people it just depends on your hair

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growth and your genetics. Definitely more
than just shaving it with the right absolutely.

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Yeah, yeah, very good.
And the ingrow hair thing is is

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a real issue too when you shave. I have a lot of like sports

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players come in who wear the athletic
shirts constantly get the rub, so they

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get waxed and it helps. They
notice a big, big difference with that

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there. So don't be don't be
shy. Man. If you want to

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get your arms done or your chest, your bodybuilding or something, go in

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there and see them and take care
of you. Absolutely. So what would

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you say your percentage of men clients
are depends for the service waxing. I

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have a lot of guys that come
for waxing actually ears and nose. Yeah,

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big for guys. Yeah, some
guys coming there and they get their

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brows done and I'll just be talking
totally, Yeah, we offer nose waxing.

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They're like, what what's that.
I'm like, okay, we're doing

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it. I'm totally coming in there
and doing it and doing that the best

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thing and it doesn't hurt. I'll
do ears too, yeah, all yeah,

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I mean why not. I think
it's fantastic. Yeah, and and

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something again, it's amazing too,
is it. Yeah? Sure, her

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pricing is right on there you go. Yeah. So then then that that's

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only the main reason why I know
about pricing is because you have to test

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the product right before you came in. And so I was looking at everything,

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and so one of the things that
I tried to do was book a

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service. And it's the easiest.
Say is book Now, pick your service

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and you go through. So what
made you decide to do that? The

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online book? Yeah, so it
came I used Square, So it came

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with the Square. And then I
had a lady build my website and she

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was like, hey, let's add
the button to book and all the things.

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So she was able to I'm not
tech savvy, Ariel does the website

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for me. I'm like, here
you go, girl, I'm not I'll

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do the services. I'll do the
boutique shopping and that's all. Don't ask

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for anything else, Say Lane,
I'm staying in Halane. She can handle

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that, but she added the book
now button and we've made you know,

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minor tweaks to the website and everything. But yeah, it's just it's easy,

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so easy. Yes, I mean, I'm like very when I want

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something, I want it now,
right exactly. So if I'm laying in

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You're going to forget availability now,
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especially for us women like me.
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like to It seems like such a
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why, but to call and schedule
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that is a huge appeal, you
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It sends you a text, that
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bit about your led light therapy and
I've kind of done a little studying on

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this podcast. I listen to Joe
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a big believer in it. Uh. And it's the red light therapy,

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I guess they call it. And
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dries the oils out basically. And
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it's legit. Yeah, that's one
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it's constantly growing and evolving, so
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has been a hit for sure.
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How often does someone need to do
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light the same? No, some
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should be? At least you can
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time on that. You know,
ten to fifteen minutes a day is great.

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well, I just have a little
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tell people skincare and taking care of
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going to the gym. You have
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going to see results. The same
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go, you have to work out, you have to put in the effort

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in the work. You're not going
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out. You know, you have
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you really don't want to do it. Please double cleans, Please put

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on your sunscreen, you know all
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have great benefits. You just have
to be consistent with it. Wonderful,

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Yeah, wonderful. The next thing
that I'm so curious about is our facials,

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because we'll first I keep saying I'm
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know, used to have a lifting
facial. You have the botox facial,

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and botox is like botox is huge, right, now, yeah, botox

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is amazing. So our botox facial
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mask and it has its ingredient in
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tighten all the muscles in your face. It contracts everything and you feel super

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like. I did it all one
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down and it opened her mouth because
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yeah, yeah. So I'll leave
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take it off, and I mean
you feel your skin feels so tight

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for weeks. Amazing. It's great. So what would be like a really

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good facial that you would recommend for
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because preventative maintenance is, you know, as important as main maintenance. So

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usually for everybody, I always recommend
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a facial that takes off all the
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I like the little yeah, the
little screener thing. Yeah, it's amazing.

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that shave in your face? Is
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THI could, Now that's a myth
so that's not true. I have a

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friend that doesn't. Her face is
butter smooth, and that's awesome. Yeah,

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your makeup goes on so much smoother, you're instantly brighter. Over time,

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we get so dull and we don't
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and it's like, Wow, all
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here. And then not only that, but what you're using at home,

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your moisturizers and stuff, you're just
putting it on that dead skin. You

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need to get that off, put
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you know, take care of it
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pretty much. Yeah, and then
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know, after dirm plane, if
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but definitely always start with a good
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the of course I'm hearing this for
my sagging skin there? I saw the

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lift facial too, Yes, So
basically the two lift is an oxygen facial,

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okay, and infuses oxygen oxygen into
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you with hydration. Your face is
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up, or just the weather right
now in Louisiana's crazy. Everybody was getting

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super dry, so that was a
really popular facial. Can you multiple fate

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that? Can you do multiple services
at once? Absolutely? Okay, absolutely

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we can do. We can add
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Dermo plane, that's possible. Okay, yeah, very good. And you've

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got just a wide array of facials. There's all kinds, all kinds,

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yeah, anything name it. We
haven't. Yeah, I can read it.

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If I put on my glasses,
I can read the whole thing.

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the anti the age, define, the

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acne, anti inflammatory, the rejuvenation, Michael Dermer brage and signature facial,

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the Deluxe Derma plane, I mean
goes on and on. Yes, it's

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amazing. Should I read the rest? I mean, if you have,

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if there's a facial that you want, we can get it. Yeah,

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sure, absolutely, if it exists, there's a good chance you have it,

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and that's a good thing. You
always want to have what people need

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and want. And yes, some
great questions there, Cindy. Let's talk

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about spray tans real quick. Okay, So I've got a great story about

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a spray tank. So I know
everybody looks at my dark skin and they

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think he must have been Yeah,
he just natural tans. It just got

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back from the beach. You know, guys as men, I can speak

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as a man here a lot of
eyes. Uh. We are apprehensive about

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like doing spray hands and things like
that, even like the waxing stuff.

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It's just it's a weird thing to
do. It's becoming more mainstream though it

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really is. Yeah, I'm seeing
more and Mormon. I'm well and believe

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it or not. At one point, I said, you know what I'm

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gonna do a spray can just get
a little cocoa butter on there, right,

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So uh, I go and I
do a spray to hand. The

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girl did a wonderful job as many
years ago, and I noticed something that

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I wasn't ready for, and that
was when I left. I noticed I

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smelled kind of weird, like I
had almost like a burnt smell. And

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I did not dig it. I
was like, oh, man, I

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smell almost like I've been in a
microwave. It was it was hard to

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explain. I noticed on your spray
tnds you have like I don't know if

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you call it a flavoring or what
would you call it, like an obroma?

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Yeah, sent drop, So we
have at ones for us. I

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use a different type of solution.
I found out about it from one of

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my friends and her spray tans were
always amazing and I was like, oh

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my goodness, what is it like. I don't smell like a spray tan.

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And she told me all about it, and so I started using that.

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Well, their brand actually has add
on one drops. Yeah. So

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we have the shimmer drops if you
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that going somewhere right after? Yeah? Or we have our pineapple scent drops,

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so you smell kind of tropical and
beechy after. You don't smell like

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a stray tan. Very good,
it's awesome. Yeah, those are really

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popular. You smell like you just
came back from the beach. Yeah.

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I don't mind pineapple. I just
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like, man, I you can
smell it. I think and it was

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so funny when I had it done. I actually this is when I was

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working for someone else. I had
went in to work and I wasn't gonna

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tell anybody, like like, I
just had it done like the hour before.

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So I walked in and they're all
looking at me like, dude,

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what happened? Did you go to
the peak? I'm like, hey,

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I dug it. Now I'm gonna
get a spray. Look, I'm gonna

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get uh the wax and the spy. Gonna have a spot, yeah,

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have a spot, yes, very
yeah, total makeover. So on the

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spray tan thing, I noticed that
you had like an express, Yeah,

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a rapid and a regular. So
the difference between that is well, obviously

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the price is a ten dollars difference, but the rapid is a four to

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five hour tan, So four to
five hours you can shower, you're good

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to go. The regular tan is
six to eight hours. Yeah, so

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it's a little longer. Most people
do the rapid just because they want to

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get out of the Yeah, the
sticky and the smell and you just feel

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I have a really funny story I
had. It's I wish she was a

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friend of mine because I love him, but it's Jeff Lewis. I love

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his podcast and he tells a story
about going to get a spray tand and

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then his maid got into a car
accident and it was like ten hours before

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he could shower and oh yeah.
So see, I try to tell my

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clients. They'll ask me. They're
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all? Oh no, I'm usually
like, you know, the longer you

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leave it on the dark, you'll
be but don't let it overprocess. They're

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like, well, what will happen. I'm like, you don't want to

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know. You gotta scare them.
Yeah, well really just don't want to

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know. But they will overprocess and
it can come with you know, it

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can bring out orange undertones that you
see, you know, and it doesn't

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last longer if it overprocesses. No, it just makes you look worse.

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But it makes you look overprocessed,
over baked. Yeah. Anyway, I

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love it so my I feel like
I'm just I just keep talking. So

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one of the things that Jim brought
up at the top with lashes, and

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that's something I've also never done.
Like I'm not like a high, high

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maintenance type of you get what they
call high maintenance. But now again at

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fifty two, these are things that
you look at as like you just want

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to feel good about yourself. And
so what's the lash process? Because I

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know you have multiple types of lashes. Yeah, so lashes probably are my

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most tedious service. Basically, what
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and I take it with tweezers and
I take one of your real lashes,

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and I have to separate it and
get one of your lashes and I take

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this one lash, dip it in
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Wow. So it's a process.
So I have to do that to

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each slash as many as I can, you know, to each eye,

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until they're even in full and all
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sets. We have the natural set, the classic, dramatic, dramatic cat

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a mix between the natural and the
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which adds fullness and volume. Right, So it's the clusters with the

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one lashes, and then the dramatic
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during COVID that it became such a
huge deal to get lashes done because everybody

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was on Zoom and women didn't want
to put on makeup, but they would

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put those lashes on and just feel
confident you have the gloss exactly. That's

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all that was happening, and people
were confident with it. Yeah, no,

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it's definitely. I mean I have
I get my lashes done, and

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I started. I went out of
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you know what, I'm gonna get
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to wear makeup one day or whatever. And I got them done. I

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was like, yeah, it definitely
just addicting. Yeah, that's because you're

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like, you look bald without them, right? Did you feel like I

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wouldn't know that. I love that. And you know, my girls do

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their lashes and and it's funny because
one of my daughters she loves lashes and

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ben but it's the you know,
back in when she was fifteen, I

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mean, she was trying to do
her own deal, right, and yeah

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got me into it. I think
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to before school. Mom was like, Mikayla, you gotta take this off.

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a thing right now. And and

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men notice that for you ladies out
there, they do notice lashes, right

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yeah, and it does stand out. So just another great service that you

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offer. Speaking of that, one
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is that you offer gift cards.
Yes, and so obviously the majority probably

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of men, they don't know what
their wife's gonna want if they go to

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the beauty bar. So it's a
great thing to just pick up a gift

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card and let her choose. Yeah, you know, pick it out yourself.

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Gift cards are great. It was
so funny y'all around Christmas time,

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so many men came in and got
gift cards for their wives, the girlfriends,

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00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.599
whatever. They would come in and
they would be like, I'm at

409
00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:21.000
a place here like I don't know, I just need a gift card,

410
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:22.680
and we're like, okay, how
much? And then we would flip the

411
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.839
screen around and they would always leave
a tip for us just getting a gift

412
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:33.200
card. You are you looking at
him like pay here, and they would

413
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.720
just click the tip and I'm like, oh my goodness. It was so

414
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.960
funny though. Yeah, our gift
cards are great. You can use it

415
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.559
towards the spa or the boutiques or
both. So very good. Great,

416
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:51.359
just another service at y'aller that makes
it easy. And so speaking of of

417
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:53.359
your business, and we mentioned this
a little bit at the top of the

418
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:59.759
show, but you had a big
surprise waiting for you at the Chamber Commerce

419
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:06.680
the event that we just had,
the business event and you were named the

420
00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:11.000
new Business of the Year for twenty
twenty three. Yes, that was How

421
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.680
was that amazing? I love the
Chamber and I love all of my supporters

422
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.759
and I can't thank everybody enough for
that support. Like I didn't expect to

423
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.960
win that just because we've at the
time been in business for six months.

424
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:27.319
I'm like, this is a Business
of the year. I'm like twelve months.

425
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.640
But it was. It was great. I was like, wow,

426
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.440
that's a huge accomplishment. I got
the phone call from a lady in the

427
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.799
Chamber and she was like, Hey, you have to come to this event

428
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.440
and I'm like, well why,
I'm like, I'll be there, but

429
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.319
I can't tell you. They're like, you won an award and I was

430
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.000
like me, I was like,
when did I win? And they told

431
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.880
me. I was like no way. I started crying I was like,

432
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.200
this is amazing, and I know
that got sent out of state and go.

433
00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.799
And then I had to felt this
thing because I got an email that

434
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.160
I was like one of the nominees
or whatever. I'm like, okay,

435
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.759
I'm not. And all the questions
were like in the last year, in

436
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:10.200
the past twelve months. I'm like, well, considering I've been open for

437
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:15.680
six months, and they're like okay, So, I mean it was great.

438
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.960
I didn't expect it and it was
awesome. And it definitely is one

439
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.880
of those things that's like helps you
get your name out there even more because

440
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.400
as a new business, that's been
the hardest thing, you know, especially

441
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:32.400
here. There's so so much here, you know, even though we're such

442
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:36.000
a small town, there's so much
and so just get your name out there

443
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:40.720
is it's challenging. So what was
the I know you did Facebook, and

444
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.039
but what do you use Instagram a
lot? Like, what was your major

445
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.839
Instagram? I would say Facebook is
a major one. We do Facebook,

446
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.359
we do Instagram. TikTok. I
was going to ask if you TikTok.

447
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.480
I have a TikTok. It's not
popular with your handle, but it's just

448
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.599
at the beauty bar spa boutique.
Okay, yeah, is it easy?

449
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.680
And uh, before we get off
that topic, I do want to ask

450
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:10.640
you because I've been in that position
obviously, and it really is a ah,

451
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:14.480
I guess, a pat on the
back for a lot of hard work.

452
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.559
Right. It's business owners, do
not you know, the the perception

453
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.839
from people that maybe down on their
own businesses. Oh that's great. You

454
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.720
can pick your own hours, you
can be off when you want to,

455
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.079
You get all the sick time you
want. Uh, they don't know the

456
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.559
reality of the grind. Right.
No, work does not stop. Yeah

457
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:37.759
it doesn't. But you know,
it's it's something that one thing that is

458
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.240
really apparent to me sitting down talking
to you is you absolutely love what you

459
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.079
do. You can see it.
Yeah, you are not going to make

460
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:50.440
it. You have to love what
you do. Yeah. Passion is one

461
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:55.240
of the of the three words for
me, uh in my business at local

462
00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.680
leaders that I call keywords. One
of them is passion. The other is

463
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:06.640
impact. And uh, when you
join an organization like the chamber, you

464
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:13.559
make an impact because you're supporting an
organization that supports business and typically it's local

465
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:19.160
small business and uh, so you're
already hitting those key words, you know,

466
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.640
like passion and impact. You got
to have those. Yeah. Absolutely,

467
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.319
the Chamber has been great. I
mean I've met so many great people

468
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:29.039
through the chamber, so many connections, you know, just connecting with different

469
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.839
people and you know, so how
did you know to join the Chamber?

470
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.000
Your family? My mom had mentioned
it at time or so, and I

471
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.119
was like, what is that?
Like, I'm young, I don't know

472
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:42.960
about this. What is the Chamber
of Commerce? And I'm like okay,

473
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.519
and she's like, we can do
the ribbon cutting and I was like,

474
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:52.599
oh. I started reading up about
it and I called them a few times

475
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.480
and they were probably like, oh
my god, this girl again, what

476
00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.319
else? But I'm probably angry with
them just a little bit. But they

477
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:01.240
told me about it. I was
like, Okay, I mean it's not

478
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:06.079
gonna what's it gonna hurt? Beneficial? And I love it. It's great.

479
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.559
I mean you meet so many new
people and just everybody's so welcoming.

480
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:12.840
You know. It's just a bunch
of business owners, so we know how

481
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.719
hard it is to the struggle is
reel, that's right. So I mean

482
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:22.360
having other people like you to connect
with, Yes, it's good, it's

483
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:25.360
great. Yeah, it really is. And and uh, even you know,

484
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:30.199
I've been in the Chamber a long
time and uh, just recently,

485
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.199
I went to that event, the
event that you won that award, and

486
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:38.000
I reached out to the CEO of
the Chamber, April shout out, April

487
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:45.960
wears, if you're listening. So
I reached out to her and I said,

488
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.719
you know, I think I needed
that because I get kind of locked

489
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.320
up in here and I'm so locked
into work and it's not work to me,

490
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:57.519
it's just life. And and I
love to come here every day and

491
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:01.639
can't wait to get here. But
you've got to interact with other business owners

492
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:07.400
sometimes and that's your people, right. And I left that event just like

493
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.280
I was charged. It was almost
like having a vacation. Great, and

494
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:13.719
then it's kind of like reliefing because
it's like, Okay, I'm not the

495
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:16.480
only one going through this with this. Okay, it makes you feel better

496
00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.719
because I mean, obviously, right
now, the economy is not the best

497
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:25.239
right and trying to start a new
business and this economy is hard. I

498
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:29.800
mean, you can't keep up with
the Kardashians, that's right, Okay,

499
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.320
So it's been a struggle. But
you know, talking to and connecting with

500
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:39.719
other people. It's definitely helped a
little bit of support. Group love that

501
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:45.320
And speaking of support, UH,
you know your clients are your main source

502
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.400
of support, and those are the
people that go to see you and Uh.

503
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:52.719
I looked at some of your reviews
and I wanted to kind of I

504
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.480
wanted to read a few of those
because I thought it was important for people

505
00:35:55.559 --> 00:36:00.400
to hear what others are saying about
you. I'll read one here. It

506
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:06.079
says Mikayla and her staff are for
phenomenal, always willing to go above and

507
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:10.119
beyond to make sure every customer leaves
feeling beautiful and confident. Her rapid spray

508
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:15.679
tands have changed my life. Capital
letters. I always leave bronze and glowing

509
00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:20.239
for at least one and a half
to two weeks. They have the cutest

510
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.840
clothes and accessories that don't break the
bank, and the staff can always throw

511
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:30.400
together a perfect outfit for any occasion
anything you need, from a basic closet

512
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.639
staple to an event ready style.
They are also conveniently located like five minutes

513
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:39.440
from the JUVENEXI yes, I mean
that's pretty awesome. And that person they

514
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.360
left, that's a review right there. I mean the tack of a review.

515
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:46.159
That's one of my loyal clients.
She's been coming to me for god

516
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.719
years now. I've been spraytanting for
years, ever since before i started eseology.

517
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.440
So she was like her first time, I know exactly who that is

518
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.800
and she's amazing, but her first
time coming to me, she was like,

519
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.159
I don't know. She's like,
I've had some bad experience with spray

520
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:07.039
tans. I've been orange, and
I'm like, girl, just trust me.

521
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:13.440
She started coming to me and I
was spray tanning out of my house

522
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:15.079
like before I started my business,
you know, I was just kind of

523
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.519
doing it on the side. I
would do mobile spree tans. I would

524
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:22.039
go, you know, sprayana a
group of bridesmaids or group of friends or

525
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:27.760
whatever. And so she she came
to me and she was like, don't

526
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.199
mess me up, like I got
you. So she's been coming to me

527
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:34.519
ever since. I love that and
every event, every time she leaves town,

528
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:39.719
she's like, I need I need
a stand And there's plenty of those

529
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:45.239
that y'all can check out. And
nothing makes you feel better than getting reviews

530
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:49.519
from people that are your clients and
and then know what it's like, and

531
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:53.679
Cindy actually went by there and uh, you discussed a little of that,

532
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.360
but you made a comment to me
about the clothes, and she she has

533
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.119
some really cute clothes over there.
What did you think. Well, I

534
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:08.480
bought this dress, I bought the
ears. Yes, we are. I

535
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:12.519
mean I had to. I went
to introduce myself because I just didn't want

536
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.159
you to walk in blind and I
hadn't been able to. I wasn't able

537
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:16.599
to come to the initial meeting,
you know, and I just wanted to

538
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.280
meet you. And then I'm like, well I need that, I need

539
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:28.559
that, and I don't need that. Get this too. Yes, like

540
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.480
I said at the beginning of the
podcast, you there's something in there for

541
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:38.480
someone from fifteen up to seventy that's
going to or or eighty or or I

542
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.679
mean you know, any age.
Well, it's another challenging thing, I

543
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.159
will say. You know, for
me, it's like, Okay, I

544
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:46.480
want to shop for me, but
I can't do that. I have to

545
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.719
think about my clients and I have
to be like, Okay, who would

546
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.880
wear this? And to be your
age and think like that. See when

547
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:54.880
I was your age, I was
in retail and I was putting myself through

548
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.719
college, and so I was having
to think for clients. I was a

549
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:05.800
boy for certain things at of high
end boutique could tour clothes off the runway

550
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:09.400
like and I had high pressure.
And then I became manager of The Gap

551
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:14.480
before I was twenty one based off
of that knowledge. And I didn't have

552
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.960
to buy at the Gap. I
was just managing a multimillion dollar store while

553
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.920
still going to college. So I
get it a lot of pressure, a

554
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.960
lot of pressure, yeah, sure, But to walk in, I was

555
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:31.159
like, I can picture you at
your age making these decisions for multiple age

556
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.920
groups. Like it was impressive.
And I'm not just saying I mean,

557
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:37.639
I truly would not say these words
if I did not mean though I was

558
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.840
very very very impressed. Thank you
so much. That does mean a lot,

559
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:44.159
because I do try, you know, to make it a point to

560
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.960
Okay, we have something you can
wear to church, but we have something

561
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:50.639
you can wear to a country.
Come absolutely you know, yeah, there's

562
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:53.199
something for everybody, and that you
got to have that. You know,

563
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:57.800
you have to have options, and
we're not just like one style. I

564
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.760
guess no, it and it could
be like this dress that I have.

565
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.000
One in particular, when you leave, we have more business meetings. I'm

566
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.199
putting a blazer on with it,
right, you know, and then I

567
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.239
could put some sandals on with it
later down the road. Like a lot

568
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.480
of it is just flexible. Yeah, a lot of it is just good

569
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.559
closet staples. Yes, that everybody
means you can dress it up, but

570
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.639
that dress it down. If you
would have had the green ruffle sleeve and

571
00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:23.960
my size I would have, it
was a little crops. We could go

572
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:29.480
on for It's like three people.
Actually, she wore it to the ribbon

573
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:31.639
cutting with the chamber. That's what
she needed to wear, and it's like

574
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:34.800
three people came in and bought it. After that, I was like,

575
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.639
yeah, mom, you can come
be a model. Yes, yes,

576
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:43.480
yes, but yeah, no,
I appreciate that. It is hard as

577
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:49.440
challenging. We went to market actually
Dallas Market, and we go and it's

578
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.639
sus big. It's intimidating. I
used to sell bags at this. I

579
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.719
made handbags at one time too.
Yeah. Yeah, it's this huge building.

580
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.559
You go in. There's thousands,
I mean thousands of vendors and it's

581
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:05.719
overwhelming. It's intimidating. The first
day it was my mom and I and

582
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:09.239
my best friend, Ariel manager.
She we all went to Dallas Market in

583
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.480
October and we walked in. I
was like, oh my goodness, we

584
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:16.840
were there from eight thirty in the
morning to six o'clock at night. Wow,

585
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:20.960
did you do one day or did
you do multiple? Lad? Multiple?

586
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.519
Yeah, you have to. But
that second day, I handed Ariel

587
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.800
the credit card, I had her
the book. I was like, you

588
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:30.000
don't ask me any questions. I
said, you're making the decision, and

589
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.559
I sked toll ended up making the
decisions. But I was like, I

590
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.199
back her. So I was like, do they have any wheelchairs here?

591
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:39.840
Because it was a lot of it
is overwhelmed. But just having you know,

592
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:45.840
my mom come and kind of helped
pick out for older people or you

593
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:51.079
know, more conservative type things,
and then we have Ariel and I,

594
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:53.480
you know, making those decisions.
It was great. It was really fun.

595
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:58.599
Definitely going to be back to market
soon. Yeah, but I love

596
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:00.519
that I can give you off.
There are some tips and checks from when

597
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:05.760
I like, just from this will
be twenty years ago, but yeah,

598
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:10.079
probably take all the tips. I
can't. I'll take it all very good.

599
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:14.960
I want to talk about your hours
real quick. Yeah, so tell

600
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.039
me what tell me when you're opened
and closed and all that good stuff.

601
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:22.840
So we're only closed on Sundays,
but we're open Monday through Saturday. Monday,

602
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:28.079
we're nine to five Tuesday through Friday. We just changed our hours is

603
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:32.480
ten to six and then on Saturdays
ten three. We're open ten to six

604
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.880
on Saturdays around the holidays, just
to give people more time. But you

605
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.079
know, my girls have to have
their summer. Not that's right. Everybody's

606
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:43.519
out on vacation doing their own things. So we shortened those hours. But

607
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.480
I do take a nine am appointments
every day. Very good, awesome,

608
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:49.920
very good, opens up at nine. I like to get going in the

609
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.320
mornings. Love that, get out, ye get all moving. Okay.

610
00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:58.039
So I've got some fun facts for
you. Okay, Well you're gonna give

611
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.360
me some fun facts. I'm going
to give you some fun okay. So

612
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one of my favorite things to do
on this earth is travel anywhere that I

613
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.400
have never been. So what if
you could go anywhere in the world,

614
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where would it be? Oh goodness, Well, I've always wanted to go

615
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:23.639
to Turks and Caicos if we're talking
like tropical uh huh. My sister's been

616
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and she brags about it every year
and I'm like, we're supposed to go

617
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around COVID, and then COVID happened, so we ended up going to St.

618
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Thomas. And then when we were
say Thomas, she was like,

619
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oh, they have this in Turks, but it's like this, it's so

620
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:43.599
much better. Let me enjoy my
Saint Thomas trip. Okay, that's stay

621
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:45.840
with the ritz. Carlton y'all.
I was like, she was like Sat

622
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Thomas' and I'm like Tursus. I'm
like, okay, we'll go, we'll

623
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go. But now that it's back
open, definitely Turks and Cacos, and

624
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I do want to go to Italy
one day. Beautiful. Yeah. My

625
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:01.880
mom's side is Italian. They're from
Sicily, so I think it would be

626
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cool to go. And I love
Italian food and just to go and have

627
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the real, the real I like
my food. I'm like, yes,

628
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:15.960
so definitely Italy, but I think
turs and Cacos for sure is like up

629
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:21.000
there. Put that on your vision
board. Yeah, vision board. So

630
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:30.199
what if you could have any superpower, what would it be to read minds?

631
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.519
Yeah? Yeah, that's mine too. Yeah, only because I'm nosy.

632
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:37.639
I want to know what everybody's thinking. And I'm pretty good at reading

633
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.199
people, Like I can talk to
you, but it's like, okay,

634
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:47.079
I can see through you. I
mean to be a whole other. So

635
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:51.800
yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good one too. What would

636
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:59.599
you be curious curiosity to make people
not lie? Yeah, that would be

637
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:05.199
a to make people tell you read
their mind. You wouldn't know if they

638
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:10.840
some people you know they're lying and
they still won't admit it. So everybody

639
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:16.320
be brutally honest, brutally very good, very blunt too, and you kind

640
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:22.639
of have to watch yourself, especially
in business. Oh yeah, you have

641
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:28.320
to get sugarcoat things and certain certain
things. Sure, but I am very

642
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.480
blunt and honest, and I'll be
blunt with my clients. I'm like,

643
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:37.400
girl, you need to wear your
sunscreen, you need to moisturize. But

644
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.360
no, I mean I'm honest.
Yeah, clients for sure. Well that's

645
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:46.039
very good, very good, And
you mentioned it earlier. But your social

646
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:51.559
media you're on all platforms right pretty
much? All tiktoks, yes, and

647
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:59.320
Instagrams and facebooks. Yeah, that's
it. Their website is the bar Spot

648
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:05.440
beauty bar spot. Very good,
so go check her out. On all

649
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:10.239
her social media give her a like
on those pages? And uh, and

650
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:15.920
did you have fun? I had
so much fun? Good. I enjoyed

651
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.079
it so much. Cindy Everton,
you did a great job as a co

652
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.559
host today. Well, thank you. You're welcome. Like I said at

653
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.239
the top, I'm very honored to
be here. Yeah, well we're very

654
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:30.679
honored to have you. How about
that? Uh? Any any final adults?

655
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.440
Yes, okay, and give us
one. I think that we need

656
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:38.400
to be more educated on all of
these services. And I think we might

657
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:44.840
need a beauty podcast, might need
on one day. Yeah, that'd be

658
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:47.079
fire. I can't see that.
I haven't thought about it. I mean

659
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.920
under video, I mean you can
actually have you ever done a podcast before

660
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:58.480
this? One? Sat in on
one podcast but it was a hunting podcast,

661
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:05.679
a little like here you go.
But I didn't say anything. Can

662
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:12.360
you'd be great on your thank I
think that it's something you should think about.

663
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.119
Okay, Yeah, I will.
Well, thank you very much for

664
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:20.519
coming and telling us that you're you
have a wonderful business. Thank you and

665
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:27.079
uh very proud to see our younger
generation uh making it happen as entrepreneurs.

666
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:31.880
Love that you're located at nine four
four one Florida Boulevard and Walker. Yes,

667
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:36.400
so go by check them out right
by the high school. Yeah,

668
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:39.920
right by the high School to absolutely, can't miss it. We have big

669
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:43.880
pink signs out there. There you
go, look for the pink look.

670
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.840
I want to thank everyone for listening, watching look work. We are closing

671
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.159
in. It blows my mind.
On one million views just on Facebook,

672
00:47:53.800 --> 00:48:00.039
excuse me, just on YouTube so
that it blows my mind, you know.

673
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.519
And what I love about it is
it's all people that have a love

674
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:07.840
for local business and want to learn
more about these businesses, not only in

675
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:13.159
Livingston Parish, but bat Ridge and
surrounding areas as well. So until next

676
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:17.320
time, I'm Jim Chapman. Say
your name Cdy Everton and City Everton,

677
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:23.320
and I'm reminding you to love your
community, support local business, and keep

678
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.000
leading. Thank you very much,