We had the good fortune of connecting with Kissy Charles and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kissy, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I realized that working for other people and killing yourself to maintain someone else’s business with very little reward did not sit right with me. So I figured if I was gonna go hard it might as well be for myself.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I’ve always been an artsy person, from my clothes to drawing to anything that involves creativity. Nails is a great way to express my creativity on tiny canvases. Professionally it has helped me stand out from the crowd because I am producing art on nails that most local nail salons do not provide. Some challenges I faced in the beginning was building clientele because when I first started it was during a time where black nail techs weren’t really as embraced as they are now. Along the way I’ve learned you can’t please everyone and you just have to do the best you can every time and be okay with that. I want the world to know that as long as I’m able my brand will always strive to produce quality and my goal is to make the client happy by any means as best as I can.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Well being from New York there’s sooo many options. Brunch would be at the top of the list. We stopping at Brooklyn Bridge Park. We going shopping in Soho or Herald Square. Even local mall Roosevelt Field in Garden City. We watching movies and cooking at home too, me and my friends love to eat so if food is involved we down lol.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would like to shoutout Jessica Ferguson of Posh Beauty Bar, she is a successful salon owner that I think very highly of and look up to. She has passed on a lot of knowledge to me to help build my business. She supports all my new ventures and always puts me in a position to win.

Website: SealedWithAKissybeauty.com

Instagram: @Sealedwitha_kissy

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