Touch of Radiance Natural Beauty Bar to offer diverse range of services in Pickerington
The owner of a new Hill Road North salon hopes her venture will provide more natural hair care services to residents from Pickerington and surrounding communities.
Lauri Tucker-Davis held a grand opening March 27 for her Touch of Radiance Natural Beauty Bar at 1152 Hill Road North in Pickerington.
Tucker-Davis hopes the minority-owned shop will add to the diversity of “natural beauty” services in the community; she specializes in everything from braids to locs.
“I wanted to be somewhere where I’m in high demand,” Tucker-Davis said. “There’s a big, high demand in the Pickerington area. People were telling me they had to drive up to Columbus to get natural hair care and things like natural hair braids, silk press, locs and microblading.”
Tucker-Davis, 54, lives in north Columbus. She said she’s become well acquainted with Pickerington over the years, in part because she visits her grandson, Michael Scott, who is a freshman who plays football at Pickerington High School Central.
For the past 24 years, Tucker-Davis has worked as a bus driver for Columbus City Schools, but she also graduated from the Ohio School of Cosmetology in 2002 and ran a natural hair studio behind her home in the evenings.
“I wanted to plan for retirement, and I wanted to have a salon to do something when I retire,” she said. “I’m not sure just yet when I’ll retire from the school bus, but tomorrow’s not promised to you.
“I decided, ‘You got to go ahead and live.’ You only live once, and the opportunity presented itself in terms of this location.”
As Touch of Radiance’s owner and stylist, Tucker-Davis specializes in haircuts for natural hair, as well as braiding, microblading, silk pressing, locs and eyelash extensions.
She also does makeup for special events such as weddings and proms.
Tucker-Davis plans to rent out space in her roughly 850-square-foot salon for other natural beauty services. Thus far, she’s hired a full-body waxing specialist.
“I have an all-around resume,” Tucker-Davis said. “I’ll also have self-contractors working here because I opened up a salon and wanted to make sure I can do everything people want.
“People can come and get a whole little makeover. We cover a lot of areas of beauty. That’s why I call it a ‘beauty bar.'”
In addition to devoting the front of the salon to a beauty bar, Tucker-Davis has another approximately 850 square feet of space at the rear of her shop that will be available for event rentals.
“I have the back area to rent for baby and bridal showers and meeting space,” she said.
Pickerington Area Chamber of Commerce President Kim Barlag said she’s excited to see the addition of Touch of Radiance because it will provide unique and specialized services to the community.
“Lauri Tucker(-Davis) is making Pickerington even more glamorous with her new beauty salon, and we are glad she selected this area to open her business,” Barlag said. “Her range of services for a diverse clientele is much needed in our community.”
A Touch of Radiance’s is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
Additional information is available online at touchofradiancenaturalbeautybar.com/.
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