Support Black-Owned Businesses By Shopping Online From These 31 Awesome Stores
There are so many amazing stores and products to choose from!
We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication.
One of the many ways to support the black community is to make sure you are supporting black-owned businesses.
This is especially difficult during the current pandemic, which has kept most brick and mortar stores closed. However, you can still support these businesses by shopping online! Here are just some of the amazing black-owned businesses you can buy from online.
These pastry-inspired makeup products come in the cutest packaging and are vegan and cruelty-free. Creator and CEO Cashmere Nicole also created the charity Sugar Homes, which donates money, clothes, toys, and other essentials to orphanages worldwide.
Black Girl Sunscreen was created as a non-white residue sunscreen in sunny Miami in 2016. The sunscreen comes without parabens or other harmful chemicals, and is cruelty-free, vegan, and reef safe (which means it won't damage a coral reef if you go snorkeling)!
3. The Lip Bar
Looking for a black-owned alternative to Kylie Cosmetics or ColourPop? This Detroit-based beauty brand is a perfect affordable option that offers a bunch of shades of matte lip colors as well as "Fast Face Kits" that have everything you need to do a full face of makeup in seven minutes.
Mented Cosmetics was created by two friends who were frustrated by the lack of nude lipstick options for black women. Starting with lipsticks, their brand eventually grew into all other types of makeup products, with shades for everyone, no matter your skin tone.
Get the nude lipstick here and the liquid lipstick collection here.
6. BLK & Bold
9. Kara Hinson
These gorgeous affordable prints are created by Delaware-based artist Kara Hinson, who features black women in her works with themes of nature, astrology, and nostalgia. Her website also features free coloring pages for all of us currently stuck at home!
10. Adorned by Chi
11. Crown Candle Co.
12. By Ms James
13. Form Beauty
15. Spoiled Boutique
17. DorcasCreates
18. Nubian Skin
19. Lust for Nails
20. Melanie Marie
21. Curlbox
Curlbox is a subscription haircare box specifically designed for women with natural curly hair. It allows you to sample multiple hair products each month so you can find one that works best for you. You can sign up for the waitlist for the monthly box here.
Get the baby hair box here and the May 2020 speciality box here.
23. Ashera Swimwear
24. 25th and June
25. BLK MKT Vintage
This store carries a "collection comprised of black collectibles, cast-offs and curiosities, representing the richness of black history and lived experience." Some of their items are stocked at places like the Brooklyn Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture!
Get a vintage hardcover The Color Purple here and the vintage raglan sweatshirt here.
26. Beads Byaree
27. Temple Zen
28. Mayvenn
Mayvenn sells 100% human hair available in clip-in extensions, tape-in extensions, wefts, and wigs. The company was created to make sure black-owned salons were able to buy hair from a black-owned company, but also to provide individual extensions and wigs for interested customers.
30. Love, Vera
31. Ivy's Tea Co.
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