The company also is designing hair extension products it believes will help rid the market of synthetic products seen as harmful to the environment.

"The prices have just gone crazy," said the single mum, who used to work as a hair extension specialist.

Allana Clarke, a Trinidanian-American who works with Black beauty products, has two pieces in the show — one a poem cast from raw unprocessed cocoa butter and beeswax that spells both “black” and “lack”; another a sculpture made out of the bonding glue used for hair extension weaves.

On Craigslist this week, a half-dozen people offered mobile or home beauty services, including barbering, hair cuts, nail art and hair extension care.

Toliver and Dotson, had two children, Ericka Nicole Dotson, who owns a chain of 19 hair extension boutiques in the U.S. and Africa called Indique Hair, and Eddie “Tre” Dotson III, who recently opened Liberty Barbecue in Round Rock with John Brotherton after working for years in the Central Texas hospitality business.