Beyond the Chair Co. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with feminist values that addresses the issues faced by beauty and grooming professionals who have received inadequate education and lack labor protections. Our mission is to promote beauty education reform and facilitate conversations about unionizing beauty workers, including cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, nail technicians, and makeup artists, while also conducting research on the beauty labor sector.

However, as a small, grassroots organization, our biggest challenge is covering overhead costs—the unglamorous but essential expenses, such as filing fees, research tools, outreach, and maintaining our digital platforms. These expenses are what keep our mission moving forward.

With your help, we can continue to:

Advocate for Higher Education pathways for beauty industry professionals.

Build a movement for justice, dignity, and equity in the beauty industry.

Share our mission through our social media channels.

Elevate the voices of beauty workers.

Provide research-backed advocacy.

Your donation—no matter the size—directly fuels this work. Together, we can create an industry where beauty isn’t built on exploitation, but on fairness, education, and worker power.

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