Alexis Davis launched her successful online candle business while in college, and now Lit by Lexi has its 1st brick and mortar store in Logan Square.
"It's not common to be a young black woman in an entrepreneur space and you're doing well. It's hard," Lit by Lex owner Alexis Davis said.&M University student began making candles in 2019.
For the past two years, she's been selling candles online and at farmers markets while completing her studies. Now, the recent college grad is taking her company, Lit by Lex, to the next level with a store in the Logan Square neighborhood. "As soon as I cut that ribbon it felt like my visions and my manifestations is real you can do anything," Davis said."Alexis's father and I have been so proud of her. We have always been so supportive of her. We always tried to give her the tools that she's needed to do the things that she desired to do," her mother Tonya Davis said."We got cozy scents, warm scents, earth scents.
"I want people to recognize that you should be comfortable in however you dress, however you feel and however you show up in this world," Davis said.
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