![]() ![]() ![]() We went from having a two-day turnover to 12 days,” she says, flipping between her two phones and her computer. “A mess-up now costs thousands of dollars, where just a few months ago it was a few hundred. ![]() “We don’t have room for error,” she tells me, as she sits behind her desk at the company’s office, which occupies a few units of the strip mall where her salon had once been. The company in Houston that manufactured and distributed Kaleidoscope’s products simply couldn’t handle the speed and volume of the scale, and these problems were irritating Dupart. In 2018, Kaleidoscope’s growth exploded, with sales going from $100,000 a month at the start of the year, to $1 million by the end of March. Her hair was straight and black (one of many extensions she rotates through each week), and her fingernails on this day are nearly 3-inch-long glittering gold, purple, black, and jeweled talons. This morning she is wearing a pair of Adidas workout tights, Yeezy sneakers, and a bejeweled T-shirt that says Pray Girl, Pray. “If I knew what I was doing was going to be hair, I probably would have changed it,” Dupart says about the handle, with a grin. “BB” stood for Big Booty, a God-given asset that Dupart wasn’t shy about deploying in the steady stream of photos and videos she cranked out around the clock in the service of her business. All of that was driven by Dupart’s relentless marketing on social media, particularly Instagram, where her handle was about to gain its millionth follower.ĭupart stands little more than 5 feet tall, with big eyes and a wide smile. Salons and beauty supply stores in every state, as well as Canada, the Caribbean, and the UK, sold its products. Jesseca Dupart started Kaleidoscope as a simple hair salon in the northeastern section of New Orleans, called Little Woods, back in 2012, when she was 30 years old, and by the time I visited her six years later, Kaleidoscope was a rapidly growing brand in the African American beauty market. ![]() I’m very happy to say I have somebody like BB Judy.Excerpted from The Soul of an Entrepreneur by David Sax. They out there and they’re coming for us, but we don’t care because we strong and we can get through anything together. “I’ve never in all my years and I came out in the 90s, I’ve never really opened up about anything personal because with new levels comes new devils. I’m already Da Brat, so I’m just blessed all the way around,” she said. There’s nothing I can’t talk to about with her and it’s just amazing.”Īnd as was made evident last week when Dupart gifted Brat with a sparkling white Bentley as an early birthday gift, the entrepreneur knows how to make the star feel special very special and in happy tears. We can talk about anything and everything. She inspires me, she believes in me, she motivate me, she accepts me for who I am - my past, my faults, mistakes. Like Jill Scott says, she loves me from my hair follicles down to my toenails. But when you get blessed and somebody when you weren’t even looking for nobody, and they love you like you’ve never been loved before, it’s a whole different experience. “I’m a little bit nervous because I’m not really used to talking about this thing because I’m not a public person when it comes to my personal life. “I never confirmed anything because in the ’90s, it wasn’t cool back in the day,” she said. Ayyyyy! Da Brat And Jesseca Harris-Dupart Welcome Baby True Legend Into The Worldįor the record, Brat said she didn’t let on about her sexuality when she first made waves in the industry in the ’90s because being a woman into women wasn’t necessarily embraced (she didn’t identify herself as one sexual orientation or another by the way).Judy Harris-Dupart Claps Back At Woman Claiming Baby True Legend’s Name Was Stolen.Jesseca Harris-Dupart Says Da Brat’s Sexiness Has Gone Up ‘1000%’ Since Giving Birth. ![]()
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