Design Essentials

4C and 3C curly girls, this one is for you ❤️‍🔥

This your reminder to stop guessing and start paying attention to what your hair is telling you. 👩🏾‍🔬💧 Because the right formula starts with understanding your hair.

Meet Ty. 👋🏾

Chief Financial Officer, numbers guy, and proof that there’s more to building a business than the bottom line.

In this episode of , Ty van der Wees gives us a look at what it means to build a brand that’s invested in its community, too.

Because at Design Essentials, success isn’t just about what you make. It’s about what you make possible.

Design Essentials Day at Rickey Smiley Morning Show 💜🎙️

Cornell McBride Sr. and Cornell McBride pulled up to the to talk legacy, mentorship, and what it means to build something that lasts beyond you.

Generations building. Generations pouring back in. That’s the Design Essentials way.

The Lab Has Entered the Chat. 🧪👀 Check out these product hacks straight from brains behind the formulas!

Save this, we promise your next product restock will thank you.✨

Okay stylists…this one might start a debate 👀

Meet Kailen. 🧪

Beauty girl. Science girl. Future PhD. 🌎✨ She started her first beauty brand in middle school. Then came Spelman, cosmetic science in Paris, fragrance formulation in Grasse, and now a PhD in Chemistry at Howard.

With support from the Design Essentials Cosmetic Chemistry Scholarship, she is proving you can love beauty and build the science behind it. Kailen, we are so incredibly proud of you. Let celebrate her and all the future brains behind our favorite products in the comments!

This NYFW, let us remind you that there’s power beyond the runway. ✨

Every year, we partner with Runways to Freedom to turn fashion and talent into opportunity.

Through our partnership, Design Essentials is proud to help create pathways for creatives to dream bigger, build meaningful careers, and walk confidently into what’s next.

Take notes, gentlemen. The ladies have some thoughts 👀

The countdown is ON ⏰ Only 24 hours left to apply to the !

And yes… we’re watching! We’re in the comments, checking the shares, and seeing who’s really ready to be part of something great.

So don’t be shy! Follow us, share our pinned post, drop a comment, create, apply, and most importantly, tell us why YOU belong on the . 💫

Have your supporters left a testimonial? Your dream team could be one comment away.👇🏾

We’ve heard the discourse 👀. Here’s your gentle reminder that we’re black-owned, ✨Black✨ chemist-backed, and we’re staying that way 🤭