HOUSTON — One Houston-area businesswoman and church leader is showing others what it looks like when passion, faith, patience and purpose collide while trying to accomplish your dreams.
Being a wife, mother and first lady of Higher Dimension Church Houston are just a few things that Torsha Johnson is widely known for. For years, she has helped lead women of all ages as they grow in their relationship with God. This calling, which she has wholeheartedly embraced, is now being reflected in the beauty industry with the creation of the Shower Chique Shower Cap. The cap, which helps protect a woman’s brows, hair and lashes from the direct spray of water, is the only product on the market of its kind. The product was created with the intention of empowering a woman’s beauty routine. And while the journey to launch the unique cap was certainly worthwhile, Johnson says it included some roadblocks, hurdles and setbacks that tested her faith.
“The idea to create the Shower Chique Shower Cap came back in 2016,” Johnson said during an interview with d-mars. “My husband and I wrote ‘The Answer’ book, where we help navigate singles into healthy relationships and married couples into relationships that last, and we had our conference going and we decided once we wrote the book that we would tour some states here in the U.S. I wanted to get glammed up with the makeup and false eyelash strips. For me, I had to have them professionally installed, so I would get the individual eyelash extensions and they’re pretty expensive. As we were traveling so much and I would get glammed up and get in the shower, my lashes were falling out. I was visiting the lash tech every two weeks and I was like, ‘This is too much.’”
After doing some research, Johnson said she was unsuccessful in finding a product that would help her.
“I said, ‘Hmm, this is so interesting that there isn’t anything out here to help with eyelashes when you get in the shower,’ so the idea came to me to create a shower cap to protect my hair and then a clear visor to protect my lashes from the direct spray of water,” Johnson said. “When this idea came to me, I thought, ‘Lord, I really want to be a blessing to Your kingdom. I want to be a blessing to my family. My husband has been the breadwinner our entire marriage. I want to be able to contribute. I want to be able to leave a legacy and I believe this idea is from You. If this is really you telling me to do this, then just give me confirmation to move forward with it.’ Like Peter, I just wanted to know if it was Him, then I needed Him to tell me to come walk on the water.”
Johnson said she was prompted to have faith and walk on water through the support of her husband Terrance and the people who would help her bring the product to fruition.
“The Lord answered those prayers for me, so it was very clear to me that not only had He told me to walk on the water, He had confirmed that, ‘I’m the one that’s with you and I’m going to provide everything you need in order to get this done.’”
Johnson admitted that the journey of creating the Shower Chique Shower Cap wasn’t an easy one. After initially being told that the process of creating the product would be straightforward, she realized it was everything but that.
“There were moments when I felt like, ‘Man, I thought this was going to be simple.’ A business guide that I connected with told me, ‘Torsha, you’re taking a product that already exists and you are reinventing something, so this shouldn’t take a long time,’” she explained.
Johnson said that moments of doubt, fear and resistance, in addition to events like Hurricane Harvey and the COVID-19 pandemic, delayed her process of launching the product.
“I prayed about it and ended up connecting with a second company that was actually maybe less than five miles from my house. When I found them, I said to myself, ‘This is nobody but God.’”
After what seemed to be a smooth process, Johnson said the time came for her to pay the company but after giving them the money, the company shut down.
“Weeks later when I’m expecting updates and things like that, they closed shop, shut down, left, stole our money and that was that,” Johnson said. “At that point, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness. How do I get to this point and now I’m going to have to start all over?’ The good news is that God was looking out for me because one of the people who was a part of that business whose money was also stolen was prompted to get my pattern that was at the shop. From there, I had to find another manufacturer.”
After doing more research, Johnson connected with another company that agreed to help bring her vision to life, but the COVID-19 pandemic struck, causing another delay.
“That was another hurdle I had to get over,” Johnson said. “It was really weird. I just felt like apparently, it’s just not time. I had everything I needed but couldn’t find a manufacturer. There were lessons learned along the way, but I discovered that no journey of an inventor is the same but every lesson learned made me better. I’m stronger and I’m wiser as a result of it. I just thank God for it. Even the losses were wins.”
From this process, Johnson has been able to help other female entrepreneurs in networking communities to ensure they can avoid the mistakes she made.
“My company is not just about a shower cap that protects your brows, lashes and hair—it’s really bigger than that. It’s empowering the beauty that’s within a woman. I want to help women know that you’re beautiful without the glam. You’re beautiful because of how God made you.”
Johnson’s entrepreneurial journey has helped her awaken the dormant gifts inside of her.
“I’ve always had it in me. That’s something I never really realized,” she said. “This process of becoming an inventor, business owner and entrepreneur has taught me that God was just waiting on the moment I realized that if I had enough faith in Him, He would utilize all of it for the purpose that I would fulfill in the earth.”
In addition to empowering her customers, Johnson said a percentage of the sales for the cap will go toward the rehabilitation of sex trafficking survivors.
“That initiative is near and dear to my heart because I’ve always had an affection for women who may not know their worth and who look for love in the wrong places,” Johnson explained. “My desire is to help empower these women and there are programs that are out there that are doing that to help rehabilitate them, help them become regular working-class citizens, but I know for them, it’s hard. My heart is just to help them.”
To purchase a Shower Chique Cap and to support this initiative, you can attend the following pop-up shops, or go to showerchique.com:
- May 17: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Reserve Salon and Spa Towne Lake (9945 Barker Cypress Rd • Unit 200 • Cypress, TX 77433)
- May 25: 5-9 p.m. at Luxe Life Boutique (6200 Westheimer Rd • Houston, TX 77057)
- May 31: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Reserve Salon and Spa Creekside (26400 Kuykendahl • Spring, TX 77375)
