Fashion & Beauty

Longtime entrepreneur Arlene Rivera, 55, is a has been doing hair for three decades. She operated salons in Puerto Rico before relocating to the Rocky Mountains and is a self-proclaimed “hair doctor” who believes that understanding curly and wavy hair is about more than simply knowing an individual’s ethnicity.

People with curls and locs have long endured inadvertent (and sometimes overt) microaggressions. Increasingly, however, natural hair in all its forms is all the rage.­­

It began as an idea to make a bath and body line using the highest-quality, purest, natural ingredients, and then, lovingly craft each item by hand in small batches. More than 20 years later, Mountainary founder Karen Daly Swan’s central California beauty business is still going strong.

The Lovely Loba is a Utah-based company that creates unique, innovative, organic and eco-friendly lotion balls specially formulated to soothe even the most sensitive skin. According to creator Lindsey Christiansen, these nourishing spheres use seed butters and oils, herbs, plant and root powders, and essential oils that work harmoniously with skin, body and mind.

Immigrant, Third Culture Kid, LGBTQ+ and more, accessories designer Nik Kacy’s journey may just help you discover your own life purpose. Fashion accessory designer Nik Kacy has a message for in-betweeners: Be Unapologetically You. Though these specific words don’t fall […]