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Ethnic hair care vending machines find success in US, head for oversea bases

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June 7, 2021

Vending machines offering ethnic hair products, eyelashes and wigs are headed for U.S. military bases overseas following successful deployments at several stateside bases this past year, according to a Stars And Stripes report.

The machines, made by Williamsburg, Virginia-based Sugar Intoxicated, have proved successful at Forts Belvoir and Lee in Virginia, Fort Sam Houston and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, according to Chris Ward, a spokesperson for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.

Latoya Duhart, an Air National Guardsman, founded Sugar Intoxicated in 2019 after finding military exchanges did not carry all the products she needed to care for her hair.

The Navy Exchange, meanwhile, is creating a department called Hair Zone to offer multicultural hair care products.