Student-founded Exclusive Beauty Salon promotes self-care and Black culture through hair services Rommel Nunez / Staff Photographer The Exclusive Beauty Salon co-founders have extended their self-taught talents to the Black community at Barnard and Columbia. By Anya Raj | February 14, 2021, 4:35 PM
After a long, stressful day of classes, the Exclusive Beauty Salon team, co-founded by Diarra Seck, BC ’22, Wilaynes González, BC ’22, Tonika Henry, BC ’22, and Shaniqua Davis, BC ’22, met up in their first-year dorms to massage each other’s scalps and practice braiding. This small effort kick-started their mission to create an affordable, accessible hair salon for Black students in the Columbia community.