This is part of a year-long ‘Love for Local’ series called NB365: portraits of New Brunswick entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations. Huddle is a media partner with Love for Local. In this segment, Clinton of Davis of Le Salon in Dieppe talks about discovering during the pandemic how many quality products and services are being created right here at home in N.B.

I’VE KIND OF ALWAYS BEEN IN BUSINESS. FROM WANTING TO BE A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AS A CHILD TO GROWING UP WITH AN ENTREPRENEUR FOR A FATHER AND A MOTHER WHO NAVIGATED BEING THE FIRST FEMALE MANAGER FOR THE OIL COMPANY EXXON (ESSO) IN CANADA TO THEN PURSUING MUSIC AND OWNING MY MUSIC STUDIO/ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, TO WHERE I AM TODAY.

We’ve always worked to support local. Pre-Covid, that meant a lot of local restaurants and entertainment, and bringing locally made beauty brands into our salon when they were just starting up (Sussex Beard Oil, Koffee Beauty, Dunn & Co, Forever Pads, and more!).

Now, it is also buying farm fresh eggs (now selling our own from our new farm) and shopping at local grocery stores, consciously outsourcing more and more of our needs to local companies.

What I learned the most was about how many QUALITY products, services and talented people there are creating things from right here in my home of N.B.!

Our salon is doing well. Our team is strong. This past year we dove in and built the online store on our own. We now carry over 80 beauty brands with close to 5,000 SKUs, offering items that aren’t easily available in this province, even for local cosmetologists. What’s next for me with LSD Beauty | Le Salon Dieppe is amping up efforts to bring in more local brands and to move past being a retail store, to becoming an official beauty brand supply chain.