Beauty WOMEN IN
By Carly Meyers
The Suwannee Valley is blessed with many strong women in businesses who enhance our quality of life in North Central Florida! We are thankful for the personal and economic impact they all provide to our home! In this edition of Family, we wanted to take an opportunity to highlight a couple of new budding female entrepreneurs. The Gel Room and Euphoria Beauty Co. have chosen to grow the business spectrum of our community and apply their trades for the benefit of their neighbors.
EUP H O R I A B EAUT Y CO. Euphoria Beauty Co. is a small business created by two sisters, Lai Stebbins and Kia Brown, based in Lake City. Euphoria specializes in lash extensions, massage, waxing, brow services, makeup and skincare. Now a successful business with packed schedules, Euphoria grew from humble beginnings. Lai and Kia always knew they wanted to open a business together, they were just unsure what. The original plan was to open a boutique until Lai decided to go to school for her esthetician license. At the time, Kia was a stay-at-home mom and decided to join Lai since the classes were at night. They quickly realized they had discovered a passion they both loved. “We’ve always been into art together. Every different style of art one of us has done, we’ve always gotten the other one into it,” Kia says. “Lashes have been no different.” The skill they found the most interesting was lash extensions. They began to practice on each other and their mom to refine their skillsets. “At first it was difficult. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do it. But overtime, it started to come much easier,” Kia says. The sisters began to grow their clientele for lash extensions and eventually decided to rent a room in Glo Tanning in Lake City to work from. They liked the space and could both fit their own bed for lash extension clients while being closer to the majority of their customers.
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