Increasing up in Rockford, Leah Lambert typically traveled to Hyde Park in the summertime to pay a visit to her aunt.
“We’d generally occur up right here and then we might eat evening meal and go to Michigan Town. We would occur up here and hang out at Navy Pier and go to the tiny Hyde Park festivals and just dangle out and just take the quantity 6 bus downtown,” Lambert recalled.
She moved to the neighborhood in 2015, and now she and LaToya Brownlee, her longtime mate, are putting down even a lot more everlasting roots: This August, they opened Hyde Park Attractiveness and System, 1709 E. 55th St., a new beauty salon in the jap stop of the neighborhood.
The retailer is component of a modest business enterprise boom in the area — it is a few of doors down from The Attract boutique, 1703 E. 55th St., which opened this past spring, and new sandwich shop Unbeatable Eatables, 1744 E. 55th St., is a number of blocks closer to the lake.
Lambert and Brownlee grew up with each other, and both equally finished up pursuing professions in the magnificence business. Their new shop is a splendor salon that also delivers tooth whitening and overall body sculpting, as properly as a selection of aesthetic services.
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A significant portion of the business enterprise consists of non-invasive beauty surgical procedure processes. According to Lambert, much more men and women have been obtaining do the job carried out for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic simply because they are doing work from dwelling and ready to vacation more.
Lambert states that need is a huge aspect of the rationale why they opened the small business. “If you see all the spots around below, just after 5 or 6, you are unable to actually get an appointment or get in anyplace,” claimed Lambert. She claims there’s heaps of industry experts about the space that you should not get off perform until 5 p.m. and should not have to consider a working day off of work to get their hair completed or get waxed.
Lambert attended Tricoci College of Beauty Culture and Brownlee attended Naperville Pores and skin Institute. With a friendship that has lasted for 20 several years, the two figured it was a good concept to go into business collectively.
Brownlee still performs at a whole-time work in Aurora, but arrives to the shop to company prospects who may possibly have late appointments.
In the course of previous year’s quarantine interval, equally Lambert and Brownlee took even more ways to act on their dream of performing in the elegance marketplace. Lambert discovered the positive aspects of physique contouring and post-op lymphatic expert services, completing her certification in that space in 2020.
Brownlee started the on the web boutique Couture Noir in 2018. Via it, she bought equipment, pores and skin treatment merchandise, makeup and life style things. She hosted pop-up functions to offer the products in person, but was not ready to do so at the time the pandemic strike.
“I can thank Leah for pushing for me to get inspired to generate and restart Couture Noir. She introduced the realization of possessing a home for my baby,” stated Brownlee.
Couture Noir is now an in-household boutique at Hyde Park Beauty and Body, wherever clients can search the collection as they wait around for their appointments.
Lambert says she and Brownlee are in talks of web hosting a grand opening ceremony with Allure proprietor Rajan Alsberry, because neither retail outlet has nonetheless held an formal party to welcome their organizations to the community.
Hyde Park Beauty and System is open up by appointment and for stroll-ins, 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. day-to-day.
