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Mary Kay Consultant Turns Roadblocks Into Opportunities
BY MONIQUE STAMPS Sentinel Staff Writer
JC Busy Bee Lounge is a full-service beauty consult- ing and esthetic business. Owner Yvonne Tillman- Waters performs makeovers, special occasion makeup, tanning, as well as being a Mary Kay consult- ant. Her business partner, Janelle Harris is a hair stylist.
Tillman-Waters offers a spa experience in your home where you can enjoy manicures, pedicures, lashes, and waxing as well the services described above. At the same time, Tillman-
Waters can bring Mary Kay products to the client’s home.
This is a reopening of Till- man-Waters business. The previous business closed when she developed serious medical issues and had to tend to her medical care. Now, she is going back to her business with a new busi- ness model.
Tillman-Waters started out when she could not find people that looked like her in the beauty industry, par- ticularly the natural beauty industry. She wanted to look beautiful without looking ar- tificial. She then set about her journey as an estheti-
YVONNE TILLMAN-WATERS ...Owner of JC Busy Bee
Lounge
cian.
She says that there is still
a need for this type of makeup and skin care.
She was born and raised in Tampa and graduated from Leto High School. She worked with a Plastic Sur- geon, then opened her own business after she and her late husband, Robert “Bone Shaker” Waters started a model troupe, Bone Shaker Models. Al- though the model troupe didn’t last, her beauty busi- ness did.
Tillman-Waters has two children, Robert Wa- ters and Gwendolyn Wa- ters, that help with the
business.
When she became ill, she
strengthened her relation- ship with God. She used Psalm 23 as a personal mantra. She sees her busi- ness as a testament to God.
Tillman-Water says that God has shown her business as successful. As a Chris- tian-based business, she feels God in everything she does and He will lead her in the right direction.
You can contact via phone at (813) 770-1623 or Face- book at www.facebook.com/yvonne. tillman.3133. Her website is www.marykay.com/YTill- man.
600 East Bay High School Students Received Diplomas
The administrators at East Bay High School distributed 600 diplomas to its seniors during the Commencement Ceremony June 1st at the Florida State Fairgrounds. (Photographs by BRUNSON)
Erline Wray and graduate Isa- Joe, Carmen, and Lyric. iah Wray.
Dr. Shaune Mayo-Andrews, Nija Andrews, Chey Andrews, Drew Andrews, and Ty Andrews.
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