{Images: Both screen caps were done by me & the 3rd photo is from the Daily Mail}
Verdict: This is definitely the best hair – B looks good with loose curls. I love this hair weave & I hope to emulate it with darker hair.
What do you think?
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Business Notes: Just launched the website of my holding company
This is the website for my holding company, Kagem Tibaijuka & Co.
It was finished this week, and I have also been tweeting and posting links on the Twitter & Facebook pages that I set up for the website.
Here is a screenshot of what the website looks like:
The rise of the Afro-Square (1 photograph)
Ha ha ha ha my Afro-Square! I brushed my hair back so it looked like a square.
It’s like a black totem pole!
Don’t worry about me, I’m just being silly!
3 inspirational black vintage magazine covers for fashion & beauty
1. Now this is O.G status. I love it – makes me want to start dieting and fit into a tiny bikini!
2. I love love love this magazine cover – I want all of DD’s style!
3. I love the sunglasses!
I am definitely going to incorporate more vintage looks into my style wardrobe!
Why do hair salons in Dar-es-Salaam overcharge?
The situation of overcharging
My local salon is full of hi-jinks, to the point where you would think we were watching Scooby-Doo.
I have talked before about my salon, and essentially the owner is amazing – we have a great rapport and I think she’s fabulous and she does a good job on my hair for the most part.
Her assistant on the other hand overcharges and I am sure of it, but because there is not a price list or a menu, I can only go off memory but the other day, I went to get my hair washed and blow-dried and it was 8,000 shillings. I remember back a few months ago, it was 7,000 with hair styling included (as if it should not be included).
Now this could be the result of 1 or 2 things: a price increase (which is fine) or overcharging and I think it’s the latter because the second assistant stylist always has shit going on in terms of pricing and I have called her out on it.
What would you do?
A) Tell the owner that you think the other stylist is overcharging
B) Tell the owner that you only want her to do your hair (I think this is the one I will go for)
C) Stop going to the salon all together?
I like the owner – she does her job well and she is a hard worker, but her assistant has such a sloppy approach to hair and she just is so robotic about hair, and I even had to tell her to use big toothed combs when brushing natural hair. Like come girl, get it together! I think I am going to go for option C. The salon is the best of a very bad bunch in Tanzania.
Beauty Notes: What My Face looks like with NARS Blush
Exhibit A Nars Blush
Exclusive: Beauty mogul Ariana Pierce reveals how she created a beauty empire
Ariana Pierce is not your ordinary entrepreneur. This charismatic African-American business woman has made the beauty industry sit up and take notice with her own nail varnish brand called Superstar Nail Lacquer. I first heard of Ariana when I watched a video of her on Black Enterprise and I was captivated about how she started her nail varnish company which is growing from strength to strength. In this exclusive interview with Charcoal Ink, Ariana reveals what it is like creating your own beauty brand.
1) How did you spot a gap in the market for Superstar Nail Lacquer?
I saw a need for polish that matched the runways. I wanted to create a couture line for your hands. I also was going into my freshman year at Michigan State University and I knew that girls had busy schedules and needed to get back to class on time. I wanted my polish to be fast-drying, something perfect for the woman on the go.
2) How did you go about branding Superstar Nail Lacquer with aspects such as packaging and logos?
The concept behind Superstar Nail Lacquer is making every woman feel like a celebrity. Hence the name Superstar Nail lacquer. The packaging/Logo is very fashionable, bright, and eye-catching. I wanted to deliver luxury in a bottle. Continue reading
Did that just happen? – a day in the life of door-to-door sales
Yesterday, I did some door-to-door sales. It was such a joke!
I went to this charity to enquire about whether I could get some contact names in the hops of sharing an office with them.
I waited over 30 minutes to get attention and no one even bothered to greet me at the reception when I came into the charity – and it was such a shame because my goodness, the offices of the charity were absolutely gorgeous!
Yet the total apathy for the charity in the office was absolutely pathetic – how can you have a charity reception that is unmanned with no one in the entire office except for one manager? One manager came and then just disappeared and never came back. I waited for 30 minutes then got frustrated, left my business card with the guard and left!
It was so depressing to leave because the office was perfect for me and this charity does not even respect it!
How can we build businesses when people in their own organisations have no respect for customer service?
