Gimme 5: Black Owned Business Haul Ep. 4
what's up youtube fam i'm shannon and i am an artist designer librarian foodie and lover of all things black come along with me as i travel to new places eat new food try new things eat some more food highlight black owned businesses and all other matters of carrying on be sure to subscribe like and comment welcome to the channel hey what's up y'all welcome back to my channel and another installment of give me five that's the series where i give you five black owned businesses to go out there and to support if you watch the other episodes you already know the drill you know that i have a mix of sharing with you new items that i've received as well as items i already have in my home but special treat today special episode today i'm going to be taking you guys on some adventures the five black owned businesses i'm actually going to feature on this episode are actually places other than products so let's get into it if you happen to have watched any of my 30th birthday vlogs check them out if you haven't but some of these business you may have already seen clips of in the vlogs but you guys know how much i love black home businesses so i thought it would be great to kind of extract all of that footage and put it together in a nice compound for you all so uh three of the businesses i'll be showcasing i pulled from the vlogs and then i have two that you guys haven't seen footage of before so let's get started the first business up is horace and dickies this is specifically the waldorf location but they also have locations in dc and camp springs as well this is kind of one of those mainstay type restaurants you know when a city just has a restaurant that everybody knows this is kind of one of those restaurants for dc con in lines you know with ben's chili bowl it's just one of those classic historical black owned restaurants that a lot of people grew up with i myself had never been a year or two ago they bought one to waldorf so i decided to give it a try this was uh back a couple of days before christmas actually so let's check it out okay y'all this is just a quick look at um what their menu looks like so they do sandwiches and platters dinners um and then this is a look at um the bag oh they do steam seafood too i don't even see that all right y'all i have secured the bag okay we got our horse and dickies lunch order here so i'm about to dive in i'm back at the crib now so i can really just go to town on this food i hope is good i've never had their food before so let's get into it all right so i wound up going with the catfish platter i didn't had no idea it's gonna be this much catfish but we got the catfish there um it comes with two sides so i got fried okra mac and cheese um i'm not highly impressed with how the mac and cheese looks but hopefully it'll be really good and then down here um i got the hush puppies so their platters come with a choice of white bread or wheat bread but i opted for the no bread option and then just ordered a side of hush puppies i'm good let me give the overall meal a 9 out of 10. so come on horse come on horse and dickies all right so that is horse and dickies and i hope you all enjoyed that video as much as i enjoyed that food oh my gosh that mouth-watering catfish those hush puppies it was on point i have not been there since the filming of that video so i'll definitely have to check them out soon but as always you know i'm going to leave you with all the necessary information down below so you guys can check them out let's get into the next business next up is body o aces so body oasis is a full service black woman owned spa and salon located in brian's road maryland um in the clip you'll see me talking about it i think i actually say indian's head but anybody from the area you guys know those they're right there next to each other but it is actually in brian's road um and yeah it's a full service spot they do everything from manny and petties massages and facials to waxing and hair styling and coloring they do locks there as well and you know they have a multicultural staff there so they do hair services for people of varying backgrounds and you know that's not something you see often in hair salons if you know the hair salon world you know it's not usual that it's a lot of multicultural crossover happening um but that is one of the many features of body oasis so uh in this particular clip it was focused more on the foot detox so that's what my birthday challenge was so i borrowed some lovely pictures from their facebook page just to give you guys uh more of a sense of what the actual salon looks like but yeah let's go ahead and check them out i am currently on my way to do my spa treatment challenge so i'm on my way to the place now um it is actually it's a black owned full-service salon and spa so they do hair there they do massages all of the things they do all of the things there so i'm on my way there now um i'm headed to body oasis it is an indian head maryland i have been there a couple of times before um i've gotten a manicure there before a pedicure there and i've also got my locks re-twisted and styled there before as well so as you can see i now have my feet in the water and they've given me this brochure talking about how the ionic foot detox process works all right y'all so these are a few of their pictures off of facebook i was talking about so we see the uh general salon floor and lobby area here as well as one of our massage rooms and when it gets a little low lighting as well and i also want to mention that they have an event space there just you can rent as well and here's a picture of that all right so i hope you all enjoyed checking out body oasis i need to go back because my feet are calling for another detox but um yes if you're in the area definitely check them out um every all the businesses i'm showing you um on today's episode are all local businesses here in the dmv region so if you're in the dmv area i hope that you take some time to check each one of these businesses out but let's get on to the next business all right it's time to get down it's time to get it down because we are going to divas and dolls fitness in temple hills maryland so this was the pole dancing challenge so if you watch that vlog you've seen this footage um you can watch the vlog to see the uh editor's cut to see more footage because that class was a lot of fun um but yes divas and dolls fitness studio is a black woman owned another black woman-owned business in temple hills like i said um they do all types of fitness classes there so in addition to pole dancing they do yoga um i think i saw where they do a twerk workshop so they do that there they do i believe kickboxing i saw on their page so they do a wide array of classes so if you need to get it right get it tight like many of us definitely check out divas and dolls fitness but uh yeah here's a peek into what i got into when i went there check it out today's challenge is pole dancing class so i'm excited for that um i've never been to pole dancing class before so i'm headed there now i'm going to divas and dolls i believe it's called it is a dance fitness studio um up in temple hills so i am on my way there now and um yeah we'll see how it goes with this class so i hope you enjoyed that look at divas and dolls i will drop the information below to their instagram and website where you can check them out and hopefully sign up for one of their classes so it's a really good time over there a very um welcoming atmosphere all right y'all so uh that that was it for the businesses that i featured in previous vlogs so let's get into this next place oh my gosh when i tell you good but i say good let me tell you about okay chefs in district heights maryland let me tell you about this holy grail of food oh my gosh their food is so good so yes okay chefs marlboro pike district heights mailing right off of route 4. check it out um i went to this place for the first time i want to say back in december back in early december i had stumbled upon their page some type of way i'm not even sure how but i just i mean i'm talking about food porn food porn like the images just were made like their food looks so good i knew i had to try it um so i went and i got the um jerk crab and shrimp alfredo so i'm not a person that's big on pasta but those pictures i was like i've got to try this and i'm so glad i did but i'm i'm getting to i'm supposed to be showing y'all footage okay look this is the footage from unk chefs we have secured the food i've got the jerk salmon alfredo with the little uh lamb chops on the side so i'm gonna just do like this i'm gonna take one of these and pop it right up on my off right now eat those together come back and eat that meat mm-hmm look good though it's the food back that is jerk crab cake and shrimp alfredo are y'all still here i'll stay here with me you didn't you didn't get you didn't try to dive into the screen did you oh my gosh so that footage actually came from my second time my uncaged chefs which was a little over a week ago oh my gosh i had to stop myself from ordering that same jerk crab cake and shrimp alfredo and i really had to fight myself because i knew i wanted to try different stuff from them but um i had told my roommate who's in love with pasta how good their food was she said give me the pasta give she say like that she said give me let me get the pasta that that jerk crab and shrimp so i was in a dilemma because i was like oh my gosh i want to try something new but if i try something it's not as good as a jerk crab measuring pasta and i'll be looking at her with her crab shrimp pasta looking dumb like i should have ordered that but i fought the temptation so that was what she ordered which you saw in the video and i just opted for as you saw the the salmon alfredo and it was great as well it still wasn't hitting like that jerk crab shrimp but let me tell you what was that jerk those jerk lamb chops but i'm tell i'm telling you i'm still thinking about those jerk lamb chops to this day and it's been a week oh these jerk lamb chops oh my gosh i'm sorry i just get so excited about food but yes i will drop the information uh for uncased chests below and one other things i want to point out if you saw in the video they have a lot of art there you might not be able to see it well in the footage because they kind of have low lighting it's like trying to create some type of sexy bob with the little red and pink lighting but it's really cool though but i really love the artwork all the artwork that they have up in the wall there um and as you can see you can't really well you can't at all eat inside so um i've only been there while you know while this whole cover is going on so i'm not exactly sure what it looked like prior um but uh you can definitely carry out and i suggest that you go down there and get you some all right let's get to the fifth and final business all right y'all so the fifth and final business is unique beauty supply boutique and that is located in waldorf maryland inside of saint charles town center and that is another black woman owned business yup that's right a black owned beauty supply store i was so excited when i first heard about this black owned beauty supply store coming to the mall because we hadn't had a black music blast for in a few years because we used to have one called lux lux b supplies so i used to go out of my way to go there because i knew it was a black home business store but they closed down a couple years ago but i think they're still active online but they don't have a brick and mortar at least not at waldorf so i'm so excited to hear about the young lady who opened the uh beauty supply store in saint charles town center um the footage you see is not the first time i've been there uh so i've been there before but i it was nice to see the growth because they've added so much more to the inventory since when i first went back in the summer time so let's check out unique beauty supply all right i hope you guys enjoyed my visit to unique beauty supply it is one small thing yeah i know i try to i try to keep it real in this video so it was one small thing i had purchased a product from the beautiful store it was nail glue one of my nails was lifted so i was gonna try to fix it um but the glue when i got it home and try to open it it was hard as a rock on the inside it was dried up so the next day i was like oh well let me just go exchange it explain to them what's going on now i will say that judging off the instagram page the first day i went which was not the first time i went but first day from the footage i went which was a saturday i believe the young lady who was helping me um was the owner i believe from looking at the instagram page and she was very hospitable she was very nice and welcoming the second day i went she was not there but it was two young girls working there so i was explaining them the situation with the nail glue and one of the girls asked me for my receipt so it was a text receipt so you know i hit the link and watch upload on my phone she's like yeah but we don't do refunds and exchanges so i was like well how'd you ask me for the receipt she's like oh just to you know just to prove that you bought it from here well girl why does it matter if you're not going to refund or exchange like i don't understand and she's like yeah we don't but why do you need to if i lied it don't matter because you ain't going you you get what i'm saying so i didn't really understand that logic so you know it's fine i'm not going to make a fuss i told them that's fine but y'all might want to take a look at that nail glue so i'm telling you it was dried up so you might want to look at the rest of your inventory and make sure that that's not the same and it goes look at the bottom and say yeah i don't recommend that brand anyway it's not a really good brand well maybe you might want to pass that feedback along so whoever in charge of the products don't order it again like so just kind of it was just kind of one of those things like but i felt like if the if the young lady that was there the day before who i believe is the owner i feel like she would have just counted the two dollars as a loss and just gave me a new bottle in exchange for a good customer service experience you know you know what i'm saying but you know like i said these girls were young so i'm sure they're just following the rules and they're like well you know they said we can't do refund to change yourself so i understand i just thought it was strange like ironically funny odd that she asked me for the receipt when they don't do refunds exchanges but that's not going to stop me from patronizing them in the lease but that was just kind of one of the things like and i came home and i told my roommate about it you know just make sure i'm not tripping so i know i went tripping but uh but yeah still definitely check them out please please support these black owned businesses especially my sisters black owned businesses we have to keep those dollars circulating amongst our folks that's how we build wealth in the community and wealth for future generations but once again as always thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed this video let me know if you check out any of these businesses but yeah stay tuned because i have a whole list of black owned businesses that i patronized regularly that i can um take you guys on field trips with i just need to capture the footage now that this is what i'm doing but the just the just the filming part this is the new part me me and black owned businesses we go back so i have a long list of businesses that i have that i can share with you all um but let me know what y'all thought about this format which i thought about you know me showing you these places physically um instead of just showing you items um you know i'm gonna still do that too but i like i like to go places so you know as colby hopefully takes her foot off our our next and as you know starts to warm up outside i hope to do more of these uh type of videos with you all but yes thank you for watching if you like my content please subscribe if you like me you can follow me on instagram here all right thanks y'all i'll ask y'all later peace
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