Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Boulder City beauty boutique offers curbside pickup
Its products include locally made sanitizer
A Boulder City-based beauty and skin care boutique is offering curbside pickup for items such as hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies and beauty products — all of which are being made in a local warehouse.
Beauty Kitchen Boutique announced Wednesday that pickup will be offered from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday and from 2-8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday at the boutique, 501 Nevada Highway, Suite 5.
“As long as the demand continues, we will continue to offer it to our guests on an ongoing basis,” owner Heather Marianna said Wednesday in an email to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Beauty Kitchen began in 2012 as a do-it-yourself beauty series on YouTube where viewers learned how to make beauty products out of common kitchen items. The boutique in Boulder City opened in 2018.
Marianna starred on the Bravo television show “Tour Group.” She also appeared on Oxygen’s “My Super Shopping Addiction” and MTV’s “Teen Mom OG.”
Cleaning and hygiene supplies can be tough to find these days because of panic buying as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Beauty Kitchen is launching curbside pickup as a way to practice social distancing while providing people a way to get “wellness essentials,” Marianna said.
The boutique said in a statement that it will offer hand sanitizer, along with chemical-free, all-purpose cleaner and “self-care quarantine products.”
During curbside pickup, the boutique will take precautions, Marianna said. They will include not allowing customers inside the store, practicing 6-foot social distancing by marking out a tape barrier and requiring all orders to be paid for in advance by phone, so there’s no on-site exchange of money. Employees will wear gloves and masks.
In total, 25 employees are working to fill orders, but only two at a time are working per shift.
On March 20, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a statewide mandatory shutdown of most nonessential businesses — including beauty and personal care service providers — until April 16 as a result of COVID-19. It came just a few days after he urged — but didn’t require — nonessential businesses to close.
Retailers are allowed to continue selling items online, including for pickup and delivery orders.
Beauty Kitchen has been working closely with city and police officials “to ensure we are cleared to offer this essential service for the community,” Marianna said.
Boulder City spokeswoman Lisa LaPlante said Wednesday that Beauty Kitchen is considered an essential business and that curbside pickup is allowed because it falls under a section of the governor’s order pertaining to “retailers that sell food items and other household consumer products for cleaning and personal care to promote safety, sanitation and essential operations of households.”
The city has conducted several compliance checks of businesses and has issued four written warnings, but no citations, LaPlante said.
“Ultimately, the goal is to educate our business community as those that received warnings needed clarification of the rules and have fully complied,” she said in a Wednesday email to the Review-Journal.
As for Beauty Kitchen, it’s selling hand sanitizer — a product that is sold out virtually everywhere and has been the subject of price gouging, Marianna said — for $5.95 per 2-ounce bottle. The boutique plans to sell its chemical-free all-purpose cleaner for $4.95.
The products are made in-house by boutique employees at a warehouse in Boulder City, she said.
Her product line — Beauty Kitchen by Heather Marianna — bills itself as being all-natural, with products made of “fresh and organic ingredients,” according to a statement from the boutique.
Beauty Kitchen says customers should look at its inventory at beautykitchenonline.com and then order by calling 702-331-1371.
Products include soaps and lotions, eye gels, lip treatments, serums, cleansers, toners and CBD beauty items such as hair and body wash.