December 29, 1940 - September 25, 2026
Conrad Hawkins passed away on September 25, 2026. https://www.delehantyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/conrad-hawkins
October 7, 1932 - September 18, 2026
Lynette (Olsen) Umnus, 93, of Lake Geneva, Wis. peacefully passed away Friday, September 18, 2026. She was married to Donald L. "Jake" Umnus and he preceded her in death on December 7, 2019. She was born on October 7, 1932 in Chicago and was adopted by Helen (Lauer) and Chris Olsen. After Helen died when Lynette was 15 Chris married Elsie (Rahn).
Lynette is survived by her three children, Susan (Dave) Angus, Scott Umnus (Ann Marie) and Steven (Tara Sabin) Umnus and six grandchildren, Scout Umnus (Sebastian), Geneva Angus, Riley Umnus, Joaquin Sabin, Ava Angus and Isabel Umnus.
Lynette was a second-grade school teacher initially in Burlington, then Woods School, followed by many years in Williams Bay. Lynette loved spending time with her family and traveling with Jake. After retirement they traveled often. She and Jake especially loved the annual family summer trip to Door County. Lynette was a long time Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks fan. Lynette loved her telephone calls with many friends and family.
Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. Friday, October 16, 2026 at Lazarczyk Family Funeral Home 515 Center St. Lake Geneva, WI 53147. Interment to immediately follow in Oak Hill Cemetery Lake Geneva, Wis.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to cancer research and the. The family would like to thank Golden Years Skilled Nursing of Lake Geneva and the Walworth County Senior Meals on Wheels.
Lazarczyk Family Funeral Home of Lake Geneva and Delavan are proudly serving the family.
Lazarczyk Family Funeral Homes
Delavan and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Phone: (262) 248-2320
A worker sits April 16, 2025, in a wig store at the Fuyoumen commercial building in shanghai, China.
Finished press-on nails are seen on the production line sept. 17 at Donghai Yizhigu nail art factory in Donghai county, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China.
Zhang da, owner of Donghai Yizhigu nail art factory, poses for a picture sept. 17 in the factory's nail showroom in Donghai county, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China.
People pack nail products and host a livestream sept. 17 at a shop in Donghai county, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China.
Employees make press-on nails sept. 17 on a production line at Donghai Yizhigu nail art factory in Donghai county, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China.
An employee applies details to a press-on nail sept. 17 at Donghai Yizhigu nail art factory in Donghai county, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China.
From pre-bleached straight hair wigs to wavy clipped extensions and blinged-out coffin-shaped nails, sales of Chinese-made beauty accessories are surging across the United States.
While friction over soaring Chinese exports of high-profile items such as cars and batteries formed the backdrop to this past month's presidential summit, the boom in the nonstrategic beauty sector underlines China's manufacturing prowess.
"This market is growing," said Joe Wu, an exporter in the central city of Xuchang, known as China's wig capital, who expects his sales to grow 40% this year, driven heavily by U.S. buyers drawn through the social media apps TikTok and Instagram.
China's U.S. exports of hair products rose 12.4% year-over-year to $1.3 billion in the first half of 2026, customs data shows, with shipments on track to beat 2025's full-year figure of $2.3 billion.
It is one of the fastest growing export categories alongside more conventional ones, such as computer parts, scooters or plastic goods.
While there is no customs data for artificial nails, which are categorized as plastic products, producers say business is booming.
Zhang Da, the owner of a 200-worker press-on nail factory in the eastern county of Donghai, says exports climbed to 70% of total revenue this year from 20% late in 2025, with U.S. sales making up a large chunk.
The trend demonstrates that Beijing occupies "a unique historical position" in using scale and product upgrades to dominate global markets in both advanced and lower value-added goods, said Dan Wang, the China director of Eurasia Group.
"It is not just competing with the industrial products of one or two countries, it is competing with all industrial products globally," Wang said, a scenario that presents a problem for other countries, rather than China.
"It is going to be very difficult to see China's advantage replaced for many years to come," he added.
Chinese exporters of beauty accessories capitalized on the proliferation of influencers and celebrities on social media who frequently change wigs and manicures.
To do so, Chinese manufacturing centers relied on labor forces that would be hard to replicate elsewhere — in Xuchang alone, for example, about 300,000 of a population of 4.4 million work in the hair industry, state media said.
Donghai, a county of 1 million people in the eastern city of Lianyungang, had almost 25,000 press-on nail businesses.
Wu, in Xuchang, said its producers can outcompete rivals in places like Southeast Asia through efficiencies gained from large output capacity.
They mostly outsource the labor-intensive process of tying individual hair strands to laces used in wigs to North Korea, while sourcing some of the hair domestically from rural areas.
"The hair industry is just like any other sector — it relies on economies of scale, coupled with upstream and downstream supply chain integration," Wu added.
Hair products took 17 of the top 20 spots in TikTok sales revenue rankings for U.S. fashion accessories in August, according to data analytics platform Fast Moss. The top-selling item was a glueless, pre-bleached straight-hair wig.
Ranked seventh was a men's bracelet with Bible verses, in 13th place was a hand-sized stitching device and 20th was a pair of sunglasses.
Another hair product seller from Xuchang, who only gave his surname, Tian, said his U.S. sales rose 10% to 15% over last year.
"Customers there really value personalization," Tian said, citing a feature that lets him charge higher prices for lower volumes.
U.S. clients account for a monthly revenue stream of $10,000, said a TikTok livestreamer from a nail shop in Donghai who requested anonymity.
Producers are unfazed by any prospects of further U.S. trade curbs, saying U.S. demand is strong and supply cannot easily scale up outside China.
"Tariffs have an impact," Wu said, "but they are not the decisive factor."
