Lipstick & Pearls Boutique
By Markel Collins
Growing up everyone develops a different relationship with fashion, some people are taught to care for and respect all of their clothing. In contrast, others simply don’t care at all and it is just another piece of fabric.
Then there are a select few who have a gift for mixing and matching materials from a very young age. One of those people is Lamika Jerry, the owner and founder of “Lipstick and Pearls Boutique.”
Lamika Jerry Founder of Lipstick and Pearls Boutique
“I’ve been dressing myself successfully since I was four,” said Jerry, “Mom definitely trusted me, I’m this tiny four-year-old digging through these clothes letting mom know that I’m not wearing that I’m wearing this instead, so I’ve always known that fashion was a passion of mine since I was a very very young age.”
I may have forgotten to mention that she is in fact my older sister so I can be the first to say that the “sophisticated” fashion sense has always been there in more than one way.
“Lipstick & Pearls is very girly & sophisticated,” she said, “One of the things that I say sass and sophistication it’s a lifestyle. This brand is to let the girlies know that you can be sophisticated and still have some edge to you. You can still look sophisticated but show a little skin at the same time and still exude sophistication.”
While this sophisticated small boutique gives you these luxurious items that women want and need, it is not always easy being a one-man band when it comes to running an entire fashion line but “it’s a lot when you are a one-man show. I’m the buyer, I’m the bank, I’m the steamer, I’m the mailman, I’m all of these different things when you are an entrepreneur you are all these things. I don’t have any teams backing me so there are definitely days where I want to give up,” said Jerry.
The weight of being an entrepreneur can be heavy at times but the weight that comes with that is not greater than the promise that she made to her mother.
“I made a promise to my mother before she passed away that no matter what I was going to start that boutique. I was going to do what I was passionate about she knew that I was very passionate about fashion,” she said.
Lipstick & Pearls has been open for a little over two years after the store launched August 3, 2020, which is also two years after the passing of Jerry’s mother.
“I’m a woman of my word, if I’m going to make a promise I’m going to make sure that I stick to it so I did what I had to do,” said Jerry.
While the promise has been kept to keep when it came to opening the Boutique, Jerry is very hopeful and sees big things in the future for Lipstick & Pearls.
“I see Lipstick and Pearls having a brick and mortar preferably downtown Phoenix would definitely be a starting point and when it does well I would definitely love to open a store back in Vegas my hometown,” she said.
“My boutique is not just going to be your typical boutique, you're going to walk in here and it’s going to be a whole experience, you walk in and you're greeted by a stylist, not a store clerk. Someone that truly knows what looks good together how to piece these things together and I mean what‘s a party without champagne? Somebody is going to serve you a glass of champagne because this is how it’s going to go” Said Jerry.
While Lipstick and Pearls is just a small boutique now it has a great chance to become a powerful luxury brand on the west coast to be reckoned with and beyond, when you factor this in with the creative mind that Jerry has and the promise that was kept with her mother the sky is the limit.
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