A new shop in town delivers magnificence materials for folks of color that are complicated or unattainable to obtain domestically.
Joshua Anderson of Independence opened Parsons Magnificence Source on Monday at 2631 Key St., the former location of A-Blossom For Each Situation, which moved to 2701 Primary.
“Parsons Magnificence Supply was proven to provide people of colour with well being and attractiveness products from all across the earth,” Anderson stated.
Most shops in Parsons really don’t have hair care merchandise for Black people today for some rationale, Anderson claimed, so he made a decision to open a store so that people today would not have to drive out of city to get those people merchandise.
“This was set up genuinely to assistance the neighborhood,” he said.
The store gives wigs and pre-stretched braiding hair, wig caps and wave caps and quite a few various hair products for males and women of all ages. It also sells a compact selection of shirts as nicely as other merchandise these kinds of as perfume, makeup and lotion. Anderson stated while the shop focuses on goods for Black individuals, there are goods for every person. He designs to incorporate nutritional vitamins, supplements and other well being care products afterwards.
“It’s smaller proper now, but I’ll be developing stock,” Anderson reported.
Anderson also programs to add a barber shop/styling salon in a single component of the store. His brother, Rico Anderson, is a licensed stylist in Wichita and will come to Parsons a pair of moments a 7 days. Joshua Anderson was attending Midwest Barber Faculty in Topeka and will go on education afterwards. He also was skilled there for very hot-towel facials, which he will offer at his keep.
On top of that, Anderson quickly will start out supplying foot treatment plans, and he strategies to have a therapeutic massage therapist involved in the organization also.
“We’ll see what occurs, and I’ll just maintain operating at it and be favourable,” Anderson said.
Anderson also designs to promote an energy drink that he markets and sells, Beast Juice, in the shop. The consume is offered on line and in stores in Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, Independence and Tulsa, he stated. Anderson also is a hip-hop artist, undertaking less than the name Southeast Beast.
Parsons Splendor Offer is open up from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The retail outlet is open on Saturday also, but hours will vary.