We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kyleigh Giddens a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Kyleigh, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
My Mission For My Brand Is To Help Everyone Get The Proper Bath & Body Products That They Deserve. When You Shop With Creole Thangz, You’ll Keep Coming Back. I Wanted To Start A Business To Not Only Provide The Best Bath & Body Products But To Also Stop Generational Curses & Start Some Generational Wealth.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
My Name Is Kyleigh Giddens & I Am Based Out Of Slidell, Louisiana. I Started Making Bath Bombs In 2016 When I First Discovered Them On Instagram & Finally Decided In 2020 That I Wanted To Start Creole Thangz. Creole Thangz Provides Handcrafted Bath & Body Products Such As Shower Melts, Bath Bomb In A Bag, Perfume, Cologne, Whipped Soap & More. Our Products Have That Luxury & Smell Good Factor That I Believe Everyone Should Have. I Am Most Proud Of How Far We’ve Come In Just 2 Years. I Want Any Potential Customer To Know That You Do Not Need To Hesitate To Ask Any Questions If You Have Them. Our Products Are Handcrafted & Made For All Skin Types.
How did you build your audience on social media?
Our Instagram Page Was Originally A Promotion Page For Me As A Brand But Then We Decided To Turn It Into Our Business Page. We Started Marketing, Promoting & Doing Whatever We Could To Get Our Name Out There Before We Officially Opened Up To The Public. I Was Announced To A Lot Of Amazing Businesses Throughout The Start Of The Business & We’ve Been Thriving Ever Since. The Advice I Would Give To The Ones That Are Just Starting Up Would Be To Be Consistent & Don’t Give Up. It Will Be Hard At Most Times But If This Is Something You Are REALLY Passionate About, You Will Continue To Push Through. Social Media Marketing Is A MUST In Business.
Okay – so how did you figure out the manufacturing part? Did you have prior experience?
We Handcraft All Of Our Products. We Order Any Supplies That We Need From Either Walmart Or Amazon. We First Got Started In 2020 By Making Bath Bombs & Tie Dye Shirts. That’s It. 2 Years Later, We’ve Had Almost 10 Different Products. It’s An Amazing Feeling That We Can Physically Make The Product Ourselves. One Lesson That I’ve Learned Is Trial & Error. It Is Not Always Going To Be Right Or Perfect The First Couple Of Tries & That’s Okay. You Keep Perfecting It Until It’s Exactly How You Want It.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.creolethangz.com
- Instagram: CreoleThangz Tootie.G
- Facebook: Creole Thangz Tootie Aaliyah Graham
- Linkedin: Kyleigh Giddens
- Twitter: CreoleThangz TootieMelvin
- Youtube: TootieGraham CreoleThangz
- Yelp: Creole Thangz
- Other: TikTok: CreoleThangz TootieGraham Pinterest: CreoleThangz
Image Credits
Tré Melvin Mike Pearson Brenda Sanders Randesha Moore Benjamin Brown Kybra Saunders Misco