We recently connected with Gisemonde Moise Ménard and have shared our conversation below.

Gisemonde , appreciate you joining us today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

When I was 14, my mother decided to treat my hair with relaxer trying to make it more manageable. Which suddenly caused my hair to fall out. In 2013, at the age of 29, I made what I consider to be one of the best decisions of my life: Embrace my natural hair.

The transition period was going to be difficult in terms of maintenance because I had to find the best product for the best result, I had to push my curiosity in research to obtain organic products. It was necessary to adopt a restorative hair routine with the ingredients of my kitchen adapted to the needs of my hair which will provide regular care to both textures. I decided to share the results of my research and personal experiences.
The results attracted everyone’s curiosity because they were visible and formidable. this is how I decided to take training in aromatherapy and care for natural hair, more specifically afro hair.

This is how I started helping young girls and women through my beauty studio. Which had to close its doors in February 2017 due to a security problem affecting my person and my family. But I did not give up arriving in the USA I continued to delight my customers and friends by providing them products and care plans they needed, but also by remaining available for advice and follow-up.

Gisemonde , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am Gisemonde Moise M. the face behind N’happy&beautiful. I wear many hats along with the CEO of N’happy&beautiful.

A certified Aromatherapist.

A licensed in Cosmetic formulator.

Major in marketing an public relation.

Your hair is my priority from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. I don’t have a regular 9 to 5. I make this a 24 hours assignment because I’m living my passion.

We started our business in our living room in Haiti, at the time with a client who only pays $2 now her satisfaction going to bring us hundreds of other clients. Our progress in Haiti was an easy process because our main focus was to help black women find their identity, we were among the first few natural hair care salon in the country.

3 years later we going to face real challenges after I left Haiti to reside in the US and started to integrate this new market with so many well-known industries. Hair care products require trust, so it was very difficult to be accepted here. Therefore, we had to be patient and persevere on our ultimate goal. We were still working like a typical family while trying to push our business.

In 2020 when the pandemic hit, I lost my job, so I didn’t have any other choice but to focus on the business and develop new strategies, like using social media as an outlet to introduce our work to another audience. Ever since the business has been growing and 2 years later, we are still working tirelessly to push our brand.

N’happy & Beautiful is a black own business based in South Carolina. Our mission is to help black women to embrace their natural hair while allowing them to identify easy and effective methods to take better care of their crown. We formulate plant-based hair care products, especially for black women.

We are specializing in scalp disorder, severe hair loss, and alopecia treatment. I am known as a militant to help black queen embrace their uniqueness through their afro hair. We are different because we are well aware of the diversity in afro hair (Textures, types, and all the needs) by providing a hair plan with 6 sets: ( Noedjie set for kids from 2 years hold, Choublak set for moisture and volume, Fast growth set to prevent severe hair loss, Lock & Shine for regular locks care & Culy & Shine set for men and other curly hair type) all of our formulation are available for Wholesale & Private label: Hair crea, Hair mask, deep treatment hair protein, conditioner, co wash, Moisturizing oil, fast & Growth oil, Natural shampoo powder.

I’m proud because I’m a black woman with afro hair that has the opportunity to assist other black women to take care of their crowns and provide an outlet to other entrepreneurs mostly women who launch their own hair care line using my formulation or their own. Our mogo is “we do the work; you personalize the brand.”

We offer purely natural products based on natural plant, fruit, and vegetable oil for adults and children aged 2 and over. Today we are happy to say that we have more than a thousand customers and we also help more than 300 new entrepreneurs launch their own hair care line either by using their formulation or ours.

What else should we know about how you took your side hustle and scaled it up into what it is today?

The transition side hustle to my main or full-time business came suddenly with covid 19 where I was layoff from my job. N’ happy & Beautiful is now the only income for my family.

In 2020 when the pandemic hit, I lost my job, so I didn’t have any other choice but to focus on the business and develop new strategies, like using social media as an outlet to introduce our work to another audience. By extended our line and offer wholesale and private label. Ever since the business has been growing and proud to say we are helping more than 2 thousand customers with a better hair care routine and hair loss solution and we also help more than 300 new entrepreneurs launch their own hair care line either by using their formulation or ours. All the Succes of N’happy & Beautiful come from our marketing strategies, consistence and our products quality.

Okay – so how did you figure out the manufacturing part? Did you have prior experience?

As a hair care specialist and certified hair care formulator we do our formulations and productions.

we started our production with less than 2o products an hour with a kitchen mixer. Now our company has a production capacity of more than 2000 oil, 750 hair cream, 540 hair mask etc.. an hour.

N’happy & Beautiful made everything from scratch. we offer purely natural products based on natural plants and herbs

Contact Info:

• Website: www.nhappyandbeautiful.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/nappy_and_beautiful/
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/nhappyandbeautifulllc
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/n’happy&beautiful/
• Other: Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nhappyandbeautiful Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/Nhappy