Saluting Women Owned Businesses In The Stateline: Meta Beauty Collective

March 22, 2022|By Chelsea|In Business, B Local, 815 News, Rockford, Saluting Women Owned Businesses in the Stateline, Trending
March is Women’s History Month and Northwest Bank, B103 and the Rock River Current are saluting women owned and operated businesses right here in the Stateline. You can hear these women’s stories on air and get to know them — and their businesses — through videos, pictures and more on our social media pages and websites. It is brought to you by Northwest Bank: The power of yes, 50 years in the making.
By Chelsea Meyer
B103 Rockford
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Business: Meta Beauty Collective

Owner: Sabrena Ferguson

Location: 2209 E. State St., Rockford

Sabrena Ferguson is the owner of Meta Beauty Collective in Rockford. (Photo provided by Sabrena Ferguson/Illustration by Chelsea Meyer).

In a wider fight for equality in January 2021, Sabrena Ferguson, owner of Meta Beauty Collective in Rockford, decided to turn her salon into a safe space for queer people. Independently run with independent stylists, Meta Beauty Collective accepts people of all ages and genders.

“We’ve gotten a lot of support, and we’ve got non-supportive people as well, but the support that we’re receiving is from the people that we’re trying to help so that’s all that really matters,” Ferguson said in an interview with the B103 Morning Routine. “Everyone’s got an opinion and being queer owned and welcoming to queer people, we’ve been ridiculed for that as well so the biggest challenges have been being openly inclusive and probably the pandemic and all that’s come with that.”

Ferguson is a member of the Rockford Rage roller derby team and LGBTQIA+ community.

“We did a pride event to raise money for the Liam Foundation and we just strive to be a safe space for people and really put it out there that were here to help the community and to make people feel welcome.”

One top of being a full-service hair salon offering cuts, color and treatments, Meta Beauty Collective also offers Reiki healing.

Learn more about Meta Beauty Collective’s partner brands, Genuine Threads Clothing and Every Person Vintage!

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Listen to the full interview with Sabrena Ferguson and the B103 Morning Routine, below.