Two Clifton Square businesses now have a second home in the Kansas City area

Instead of letting the disappointment of a pandemic business closure get her down, Juliana Cavender took the lessons she learned and used them to expand in an even bigger way in the Kansas City area.

Cavender first opened Everyday Beaut seven years ago followed by the Clifton Collective four years ago. The lash-focused salon and the gift shop filled with makers items are still open at Clifton Square.

However, Cavender closed a second Everyday Beaut that she had opened on the west side just before the pandemic hit.

“It was such a learning experience,” she said. “Honestly, without it, Kansas City would not be happening.”

Cavender has opened Everyday Beaut and Clifton Collective under one roof in the Park Place shopping center at 5275 W. 116th Place in Leawood.

She said it’s part of her “entrepreneurial spirit to want to grow and move forward and challenge” herself.

In addition to what she learned with her west-side business, Cavender said she’s also been receiving a lot of mentoring and has been refining her systems with her team. Two of those team members, Katie Nash and Kailee Hollis, now have relocated to the Kansas City area to run the Leawood businesses.

Both Everyday Beaut stores offer a range of eyelash and brow services along with dermaplane facials and waxing.

The Clifton Collective stores feature a variety of handcrafted goods, such as candles and other items for the home, along with clothing, accessories and baby items.

Initially, Cavender said she focused on goods from regional makers, but she’s expanded that to makers nationally “just because there are so many amazing makers out there nationwide,” and she said it’s all about helping small businesses.

Since she’s lived in a lot of places, Cavender said she can picture expanding elsewhere as well, though she wants to establish her Leawood businesses first.

With a good team and good systems in place, Cavender said that “the sky’s the limit” on what she can do. She said she credits the support she’s received for her first two businesses with helping her launch the ones in Leawood.

“Without our Wichita base, this wouldn’t really be a thing.”