About ME

Hey girl! 🤸🏽 ☺️  I'm Chelsea. Founder, buyer and chief restocker of Nava.

I started Nava because I was tired of waiting for my skincare while on my personal skincare journey (which I'm still on, btw).

If you live in the Bahamas, you know the drill. You find a product on TikTok, or someone tells you about it, and you want it... like NOW, not later. Then you find out it's not here, so you've got to order it online, pay shipping plus extra fees, and wait hoping the plane hurry up and reach blah blah blah. Don't get me started with the hot mess of delivery.

Nava will be the first skincare vending machine in the Bahamas with K-Beauty, J-Beauty, Australian Beauty, Chinese skincare, Africa and beyond, here in Nassau, ready right now. Walk up, see what's new, tap what you want to try, pay with cash or card, and collect from the bin. No freight. No wait. (Idk what anyone says, "no freight, no wait" is superb top-tier wordplay.😌)

Following my personal skincare journey, I source products by skin concern, NOT by brand. I want you to know exactly what the product you're interested in is meant to do, the same way I do. Kill acne. Fade dark spots. Deep cleanse. Hydrate and moisturize, and more. It was very intentional. We're not going off brand name alone anymore.

A goal of mine is to also source Bahamian skincare brands because "small" doesn't mean worse. A LOT of the BEST products I've found come from Caribbean and Bahamian brands most people haven't heard of yet, and I hate that for us. I've tried HUNDREDS of skincare products from brands all over the world, and I truly believe products from local brands can hold its own against the big names we grew up buying, and sometimes it beats them. I love how in other countries brands are easily pushed in front of the public, and it's helped them grow. I want Nava to do that for Bahamian skincare brands, with local brands sitting on the shelf right next to the international ones.

Y'all, I'm building this solo from my bedroom, no team, no office and taking it one day at a time. I've learned more about shipping containers, customs, and international sourcing than I ever planned to, and it's been fun.

I'll be talking to you directly on the Nava WhatsApp channel: new drops, what's selling, what I'm testing, and what's coming next. Come be a guinea pig with me. Tell me what's working, what isn't, and the problems you want the products in the machine to solve.

Tap to discover something new, Queen!!!! ☺️