“When my mum insisted I join her in hairmaking business after I finished my senior secondary education, I was not happy because I wanted to...
By Chidimma C. Okeke “When my mum insisted I join her in hairmaking business after I finished my senior secondary education, I was not happy because I wanted to do something else, like go for computer training classes or work as a sales girl to make my own money,” said Opeyemi Adeoye. Adeoye said her mum forced her to report at her salon daily after her morning chores at home.
She said: “I started by helping her to finish the braids as she makes it halfway and later I started making children’s hair and perfected it, and later I started braiding as well.” After gaining admission into a university in Ekiti State to study accountancy, Adeoye said she felt very happy and relieved that she had to abandon the salon work to face her life, unfortunately, life had its own plans, “I could no longer live on what I get from my parents as it was barely enough and things got harder and I had to think of a way to survive.” She said: “I got motivated when I saw one of the students in the hostel selling second-hand clothes and making some little extra cash.
So I started advertising that I could make hair. I got my breakthrough when I braided the hair of one of the students in my corner, and the hair attracted many people. That’s how I started what I didn’t want to do.
” While noting that it was helpful as she got N3000 to N5,000 .