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KU alumnae, sisters open bikini business a year after graduation
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Twin sisters who graduated from the University in 2013 built a bikini business from scratch. Now, the 23-year-olds are in charge of one of the top brands in the industry.
Karah and Lauren Beeves are in the business of making bikinis for bodybuilding competitions. They said they taught themselves how to run their online business. They invested all of their savings and worked on the weekends, after working full-time during the week.
"Working through the financial struggles of starting a business from scratch brought us closer together," Karah said.
The business was spurred by their first bodybuilding competition where they said they recognized a need for high-quality competition bikinis. The sisters were both heavily involved in health and fitness before then, but wanted a challenge.
They made their first bikini in November 2013 and established Angel Competition Bikinis in April 2014. They credit their mother for helping them pursue the business and for teaching them to sew at a young age. All of their bikinis are made by hand at their home in Kansas City, Kan. Karah sews and Lauren does the crystallizing, or embellishments.
The twins work together on marketing, web design, sales and customer service and frequently post photos of clients wearing their pieces on Facebook and Instagram. The bikinis are advertised
as costing between $250 and $325 per piece. Their business has reached almost 7,000 likes on Facebook and almost 16,000 followers on Instagram.
"One year ago no one even knew who Angel Competition Bikinis were," Lauren said. "Now, we are humbled and honored to say we are one of the top competition bikini brands in the industry."
Faron McNeal, Lauren's former boss at Woodside Health and Tennis Club in Westwood, said Lauren was one of the fastest improving junior trainers who developed lasting relationships within the club and Kansas City community. He said their business model is based on a unique value proposition.
"Together they make a perfect one-two combo for a successful business and brand." McNeal said.
Before Angel Competition Bikinis, Karah was a cello performance major, but changed to respiratory therapy and worked at the University of Kansas Hospital after graduating. Lauren was an early childhood education major and became a personal trainer after graduation.
They said they are excited to see what the future holds and that they love what they're doing with the company. Their energy and commitment to their business is noticeable to others as well.
"Their passion for excellence is rivaled only by their drive for improvement," McNeal said.
- Edited by Kelsie Jennings
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Karah Beeves works on making a bikini for her and her sister Lauren's bikini line. Karah sews the bikinis and Lauren makes the embellishments
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Twin sisters Karah (left) and Lauren Beeves model at a bodybuilding competition. They started the line after recognizing a need for high quality bikinis.
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Play about Columbine shooting to open in New York next month
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NEW YORK — A play about the Columbine High School massacre written from the perspective of the two teen shooters will make its world premiere in New York next month, penned by a playwright who was 9 at the time of the killings and calls it "a watershed moment."
Nathaniel Sam Shapiro "The Erlkings" will begin performances on Nov. 9 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre. The play takes its title from a German poem found in a journal of one of the killers.
The playwright said he uses the teen killers' own words — culled from chatroom logs, homework assignment, teacher's notes and diaries
— to paint portraits of two troubled kids, not monsters. The play never depicts the shootings.
"The first step in dealing with this is in a larger social
context is to acknowledge our kinship with these people," said Shapiro, a Brown University graduate who earned a master's in playwriting from New York University in the spring
Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding two dozen others before killing themselves in the school's library in 1999.
Shapiro said that many of the popular perception of Harris and Klebold—that they were members of a Trench Coat Mafia and targeted popular jocks and African-Americans —turned out to be false.
"It's kind of incumbent upon us to swallow our pride or move past our own issues and try to reach out to these people. Learning about Eric and Dylan, one thing that sticks out is that I don't think anyone reached out to them."
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