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12 Black-Owned Shops You’ll Feel Good About Shopping At

12 Black-Owned Shops You’ll Feel Good About Shopping At

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Around the holidays, it can feel like you’re funneling money into businesses you know little about or don’t necessarily believe in. In the interest of conscious consumption, check out these black-owned shops. Each shop embodies the entrepreneurial spirit. Each also has the heart, quirkiness, and gorgeous products to back it up. Here are 12 black-owned shops you’ll feel good about shopping at.

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Etsy.com

Jewelry: AfriqueLaChic

Afrique La Chic is a small boutique with a popular Etsy store. The designer describes her line on AfriqueLaChic.com like this: “I mix old with new, shimmer with rust, rough with smooth, and elegance with street.” You can see all that description in her upscale ear cuffs and long, beaded necklaces. The shop owner is Afua Kumasi of Los Angeles, California.

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Etsy.com

Hair products: Beija-Flor’s Naturals

Beija-Flor’s is a line of natural hair products made with ingredients “from the Amazon rain forest to the Savannah’s of East Africa,” according to the site at Etsy.com. You’ll find rustically packaged items like licorice root scalp elixir and natural shea butter moisturizer. Beija-Flor operates out of Oakland, California.

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Etsy.com

Hair Accessories: FlowersFromFatima

You’ll fall in love with the colorful, handcrafted silk flower hair pieces on this Etsy shop, but you’ll also love the story behind it. As a child, the shop’s creator decorated her neighborhood with flowers and butterflies as a neighborhood beautification project with her father. Her father has since passed, and her Etsy shop is her way of honoring him. “His dream lives through my flowers,” Fatima said.

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Etsy.com

Art Work: Shadra Strickland

Shadra Strickland is an artist and children’s book illustration. You’ll find the fantastical images in her artwork are perfect for children’s books. She primarily depicts black people in important moments throughout black history. Items at her Etsy store, Shadrieka, are well-priced and she gets rave reviews.

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Etsy.com

Earrings: A Holey Moley Life

A Holey Moley Life has a creative, youthful earrings on its Etsy shop. Most earrings reflect Africa-inspired prints, colors from African nature, Rastafarian colors, and even the shape of the continent. All earrings are handmade. The shop owner is Tori Stamps of Norfolk, Virginia.

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Children’s Toys & Accessories: Ikd Kids

Ikd will take you back to your childhood with darling handmade rag dolls, reusable sandwich bags, and baby quilts. Shop owner Laura Ducommun, of Flagstaff, Arizona,  is an incredible quilt maker. She and her husband adopted their daughter from Ethiopia. Proceeds from the Etsy shop go to a nonprofit that rescues children from child slavery.

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Lifeorganicsonline.com

Skincare: Life Organics

Chicago-based Life Organics sources 98 percent of its ingredients from local farmers, small businesses and U.S.-based companies. The Etsy shop features a line of wheat-free, dairy-free and nut-free skincare for sensitive skin. You can also check it out at LifeOrganicsOnline.com.

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Threelittlebirdstees.com

 

Fun T-shirts: Three Little Birds Tees

You’ll love the shop’s statement at Threelittlebirdstees.com: “Our positive, fashionable and culturally aware products are designed to help you look and feel good about you.” On the T-shirts you’ll find quirky sayings like “Don’t remove the kinks” and images of black icons like Nina Simone Coral.

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Quellyrue.com

Totes: QuellyRue

QuellyRue.com features clothing and other accessories but their totes are what really make them unique, featuring hand-sewn images of African women in authentic African garb. You can’t resist the creator’s vision either, which she says is inspired by “happiness, truth, colors, textures, and the beautiful people of Africa.”

Racquel Dwomoh is the founder and creative designer of this  New York-based company.

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Etsy.com

Stationery & Calendars: Diggs Studio

Diggs Studio’s Etsy shop features calendars with authentic art and motivational quotes, humorous holiday cards and stationary. What makes the shop unique is its line of “Mixed Race” cards which feature drawings of mixed-race families on holiday notes. Renee Cohen Diggs is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Etsy.dom

Funky jewelry: Ini Vibez

I-Sha’s Brooklyn, New York-based Etsy shop features Africa-inspired jewelry and accessories such as wooden brooches in the shape of the continent made from African wax fabric and tribal print rings. Here’s a line from the creator’s endearing biography: “I’m I-Sha, Grenadian born Roots designer, Mommy of 3 Princesses, Lover of Life, Seeker of truth, Rasta Wombman with a definite Passion for Funky and Fly fashion.”

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Etsy.com

Plus size: Onion

New York City-based clothing designer Whitney Mero describes her plus-sized clothes as “beautiful and body conscious” in her Etsy bio. Her shop, Onion, features stunning dresses for plus-sized and curvy women, almost all made from cotton and lycra. Take a look at the shop’s reviews and you’ll see that buyers love her dresses.