February 2011

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OTC Beauty Magazine (OTC): Can you tell us a little bit about the inception of this company and the inspiration for the Mixed Chicks products? Brad Kaaya (BK): For years, multicultural people with hard to manage hair traveled from store to store, trying to blend products in a hopeless attempt to tame their locks. Wendi Levy and Kim Etheredge, two โ€œmixed chicks,โ€ created the Mixed Chicks product line because they needed it personally. Then, something happened. Friends and family started encouraging them to package it and soon they had a full blown business running out of the garage. Looking at our warehouses now filled with product, it is hard to believe, but the beginning was very humble. OTC: What is the culture like at Mixed Chicks? How does this culture affect day-to-day operations and product development? BK: Because Kim and Wendi are their products, we always develop strategies and products based on what they would want for themselves. As for the culture, we are function mixed with a casual style. Even with the way we talk and dressโ€ฆthere is a casual, California-eclectic energy here. Our employees are hired if we think they can bring something to the table and still โ€œget with the program.โ€ OTC: Please explain how your OTC store partners and our readers can benefit from carrying the Mixed Chicks products. BK: We could go on and on about how cute our packaging is, how poignant and pertinent to todayโ€™s multicultural market our message is, but all of that is secondary to this fact: The Mixed Chicks products perform. When store owners put us on their shelves, customersโ€” new customersโ€”show up again and again. At the end of the day, we only make money because our salon and beauty supply store partners are making money. OTC: What sort of feedback do you get from the OTC stores that currently carry the Mixed Chicks products? BK: They are so happy that Mixed Chicks products please their customers. They want to know what we are doing to sustain such sales.

OTC Beauty Magazine (OTC): ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋๋Š”์ง€, Mixed Chicks์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ์ค˜๋ผ. Brad Kaaya (BK): ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ, ํ‘์ธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๋ชจ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‹ค์Šค๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์Šคํ† ์–ด๋“ค์„ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. Wendi Levy์™€ Kim Etheredge๋Š” Mixed Chicks ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํ•„์š”์— ์˜ํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค, ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์ƒํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ถ”๊ธฐ๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ๊ณ ์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์•„์ง๋„ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ž‘์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ณด์ž˜๊ฒƒ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. OTC: Mixed Chicks์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…๋ฌธํ™”๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜ ์ผ๊ณผ์™€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜? BK: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐ Kim๊ณผ Wendi ๋ณธ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์บ์ฃผ์–ผ ํ•œ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋ฐ ์˜ท ์ž…๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์—์„œ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์˜ ์บ์ฃผ์–ผ ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์ง์›์œผ๋กœ ์ฑ„์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. OTC: Mixed Chicks์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์Šคํ† ์–ด์˜ค๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋…์ž๋“ค์ด ์–ป๋Š” ํ˜œํƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ค˜๋ผ. BK: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์˜ˆ์œ ํฌ์žฅ, ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ํšจ๋Šฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ์˜ ์ ‘๋ชฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋์—†์ด ์–˜๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ Mixed Chicks์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์— ์ง„์—ดํ•ด ๋†“์œผ๋ฉด, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ž๊พธ ์Šคํ† ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ด๋กฑ๊ณผ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์„œํ”Œ๋ผ์ด ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๋งŒ๋“ฆ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต๋„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋œ๋‹ค. OTC: ํ˜„์žฌ Mixed Chicks๋ฅผ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šคํ† ์–ด๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜? BK: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ Mixed Chicks์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ์กฑ์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์จ์„ ๋Š๋‚€๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•ด ํ•œ๋‹ค.

OTC: With so many different hair care maintenance and natural curl lines becoming available in the consumer market, what makes the Mixed Chicks line stand out? What is the point of difference for this line? BK: In short I would say, โ€œauthenticity.โ€ It goes back to what I said about the Mixed Chicksโ€™ culture. Kim and Wendi are mixed chicksโ€ฆ they called themselves that growing up. Other multicultural fans get very excited about using a product that was developed specifically for them. But beyond that, I am proud to say Mixed Chicks crosses color lines. We recognize that there are plenty of people who are not mixed that have curly or frizzy hair and yes, they can use our Mixed Chicks, also.

OTC: ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งˆ์ผ“์— ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ—ค์–ด ์ผ€์–ด ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ปฌ(curl) ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค ์†์—์„œ Mixed Chicks๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ๋ณ„๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์ธ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€? ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€? BK: ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋‹ต์€ โ€œ์‹ ๋ขฐโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๊นŒ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•œ Mixed Chicks ์ •์‹ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, Kim๊ณผ Wendi๋Š” ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผํ˜ˆ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ž๋ผ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์™”๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ํŒฌ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๋งž์ถฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋Š๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, Mixed Chicks ๋Š” ์ธ์ข…์— ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜ผํ˜ˆ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณฑ์Šฌ์ด๋‚˜ ํ”„๋ฆฌ์ง€(frizzy) ํ—ค์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด Mixed Chicks๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

OTC: Please tell our readers about the items that are available under the Mixed Chicks line. What tips do you have to help retailers incorporate these items into their product offering? BK: Mixed Chicks is primarily a curly hair system that will tame frizz and define curls. Our customers love the wash and go simplicity. It has become a morning ritual for Mixed Chicks users. Most can apply our leave-in to wet hair and air dryโ€”itโ€™s best not to towel or blow

OTC: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋…์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ Mixed Chicks์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค˜๋ผ. ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ๋“ค์ด ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ํ•ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? BK: Mixed Chicks๋Š” ์›๋ž˜ ์ปฌ๋ฆฌ(curly) ํ—ค์–ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ, ํ”„๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ (frizz)ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž ์žฌ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ์ปฌ์„ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€, ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•จ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค.

February 2011 OTC Beauty Magazine

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