“HOPE I LOVE THE KITCHEN THE WAY I LOVE FASHION
BECAUSE MY HUSBAND WONT BE HAPPY IF I CAN’T
COOK”
May be that’s why I never got married (laughing
so hard right now)
In due course I discovered I was somewhat
good at styling hair and started to enjoy what
I was doing, in time I fell in love with HAIR natural hair to be exact, I started braiding / twisting
friends and family hair as a hobby.
After leaving college I started working full time
but not as a hair stylist as a sales assistant for different companies while still doing hair part time as a
hobby, during this time I had a baby boy named
Remel as I became a Mother I stopped doing
hair to look after my Son, When my Son was
10 I started doing hair again still only as a
hobby.
Not sure when it happened I noticed the
years going by fast and before I realized I
was heading to my early 30s and still working as a sales assistant, one day while at
work and hating every bit of it I heard a song
on the radio, after hearing that song I handed in two weeks’ notice and left my job after
8 years to presume my love of hair. At this time I
wasn’t sure if I had made the right decision or even
knew where or how to start this new charter in my
life.
THEN IT HIT ME I was going to be a Men’s only hair
stylist….. I brought a comb and heading down to
East London, not sure why East as I lived in North. I
decided not to approach the hair salon but the barber shops to see if there needed someone to braid
/ twist the Men’s hair as I was trying to start up my
business as a Men’s only hair stylist and I only had a
comb to start with.
Three months into working at the barber’s I had
some of the hair styles featured in a UK hair magazine. If anybody had told me that from one magazine feature my career would have taken off the
way it did I would have called them a liar? From that
one Magazine feature I styled the hair of well know RnB
singer and Comedian.
After about a year my work was been featured a regularly in hair Magazine and I started to get calls from one Lady,
who wouldn’t take no for an answer, so after 3 months of
constant phone calls from her I decided to take her on as a
client, turned out she was working behind the scenes in TV, not
long I started doing hair for actors who had parts in FAMILY AFFAIRS, EASTENDERS etc. This Lady is now my best friend throw thick
and thin she has always been by my side… LOVE HER TO BITS
So now my business included WOMEN! I felt the barber shop
wasn’t the right place for me to have my female clients. So
I left the barber’s and started working part time in a hair
salon also in East London.
During this time I wanted to open my own Salon.
After a few years I had managed to save the
start-up costs that I needed to open my own
salon, I soon discovered that running the
my own salon full time wasn’t for me as
I wasn’t able to express myself how I
wanted to so after 3years I closed
my salon and become a freelancer full time.
COVERSTORY
Our Mum is still he ar with us
and has just celebrated her
75 Birthday.
page 13 | Issue #59