Are you in the personal service, retail, domestic or essential industry and identify as QTBIPOC? As part of Governor Polis’ Vaccines for All plan, we have been selected as a vaccine clinic location! To schedule your slot email vaccine@basecoatnailsalon.com 💓
Happy Earth Month! Making a small difference to be more eco-friendly each day adds up over time—let this month be your first step toward a healthier, more sustainable, and environmentally conscious lifestyle. What's something you do in your life to be friendlier to our Earth? 🌏
Awareness, support, and community-based solutions— we need all of these things to foster our neighborhoods. Please nurture your local businesses through patronage and protection.
"I saw my own face, my daughters, my mother, my grandmothers, my aunties, my sisters, my staff, my friends. I am profoundly sad, scared, furious with rage and simply just heart broken.”
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She's added canisters of mace, moved to appointments only. She's considering active-shooter training for her staff. In eight years of operating nail salons, this was never on her to-do list.
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''I feel like I have to be more outspoken. To tell people, ‘Don’t forget about me,’ ” Wills [the nail salon owner] says...Keeping her head down isn’t in Wills’s nature and, as she will tell you, staying quiet isn’t working.
Nail salon owner: "Masks do not shield her identity. 'My face is Asian. It doesn’t matter what I own or what I do,' she says. 'I am a target. That is the reality. I’m terrified for me. I’m terrified for my workers.' She starts to quietly weep." Reported by @kheller
This has been a heavy week and a half, folks. We wanted to hop on here and send love and healing to our precious AAPI Boulder communities—we are strong, we are resilient, and our hearts are with you.
This has been a long time in the making... introducing a BASE COAT x The Mara Beauty collaboration: Sea Clay! Subtle blissfully relaxing, this nail polish channels the soothing shade of influencer Allison Mcnamara's Volcanic Sea Clay Detox Masque. bit.ly/30MIiWq 💚
We’re excited to announce that our sister store, Matriarch, is partnering with Babe Walls to transition its Five Points location into a new art gallery retail space featuring work from local women, non-binary folx BIPOC creators! Learn more on our IG @basecoatnailsalon❣️
If you didn't catch the IGLive conversation between our founder Tran Wills and CO State Rep @LeslieHerod, it's now available to watch on our IGTV @basecoatnailsalon! If you have any suggestions for what they should address next, RT comment. 💫