Related: The Mogul of Black Celebrity News: 'Now Is When Your Competition Is At Its Weakest' So that's how I made my first six figures." But then everybody who bought it came back, and I made like $6,000 in three days. "I was brand new, and I didn't know enough people. "At first it was a huge pay cut," she says. Pretty quickly, she noticed that her friend was making a lot more than the $15 an hour she made at Massage Envy, and she wanted to know her secret. Sure enough, right after she passed her exam - with flying colors on the second try, of course - Holyfield got a job at Massage Envy and began helping out a friend who owned her own massage spot. "But since I started, Back people are making six figures from spa, and that wasn't happening before." "To this day, African Americans are not dominating the spa industry whatsoever," she says.
The 39-year-old created the Queen Spa Expo, the only expo for Black spa professionals, and the first Black Spa Awards, which have been held annually in Atlanta since 2016. The founder of Six Figure Spa Chick, a Memphis, Tennessee-based business consulting firm for Black spa owners, Holyfield says she's served 15,000 clients over the past decade. If anyone has a finger on the pulse of what's a big deal in the Black community - at least, regarding all things spa - it's Candace Holyfield. "If Gwen goes and talks about it, people make a big deal, but in African and Haitian communities, this is an ancient ritual." "It's a really, really big deal in the Black community," she says. A few years ago the internet lit up over Paltrow's v-steam recommendations, debating and debunking.īut all of that chatter doesn't have much to do with Holyfield and her clients. If this sounds like something Gwyneth Paltrow would talk about on Goop, that's because it is. If you're trying to conceive after years on birth control, or get "juicy down there" after a hysterectomy, try red raspberry, the "women's herb." Black cohosh for period problems, wormwood for infections, maca for sex stamina. You might just want to relax before a date, in which case an all-purpose herb like mugwort is great. Herb choice is key depending on what your v-steam goals are.
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