How To Start Hair Business| Things To Know Before Starting Hair Business | South Africa

Hey everyone, its Colusa em or with another video and in today's video, I'm gon na, be installing this. What is a deep weave yeah? It'S a deep weave that different Cal patterns for deep weaves guys, but we're gon na get to know all that we've got ta be chit-chatting about studying your own hair light your own hair business. I do get a couple of people who, dear me saying they wan na start. They don't know how to start or where to start blah blah blah. So I'm gon na be answering those questions and yeah I'm going to try to be as transparent as possible so that you get an inside of how it is like to be in a hair, business and yeah. Let'S get started, okay, I'm not too sure. How am I gon na do this cuz? I talk with my hands and my hand. It should be here as well, so I don't know. I hope it goes well cuz. This is my second time filming this video, so those weren't better being like right, so that I can upload cuz February. I didn't upload anything guys, like February was like my slow movements, because I was adjusting to my new schedule, which I will talk about in my other videos, so yeah it has to work. It has to work out. So why do we start again? One study in her business: you need to start with, whatever you have. First of all, I think you should have like a burning desire to start. Nobody should force you to start or you shouldn't force yourself to start, because maybe you think it's a quick way to make money. You did money for something, and you see someone you know is selling hair and you think that doing a lot of money, they're making a lot of they're making a lot of money, and you think you can do it as well. No, it has to come from within. You have to laugh hair. You must wear hay as well, because you are also your own model. You have to wear their hair and spread the weight. If someone asked you, where did you buy the hay, you confidently say I did it. You know I still hate take my number follow me on Instagram and all those things. So you have to love, hay and way, hair. If you don't way-hey and you don't love it, you're gon na have a problem because sometimes you just don't have money to or you just don't have money to get models that you're gon na pay and you you know advertise different haze. But there are a lot of like you, women, like minikin heads that you can use, but honestly I realized that Giants want to see like the hair on real women like they don't want dogs. I realized if I post, hair, if I post myself or in the hair, it gets a lot of engagement. Then, when I posted with like a mannequin head, so I think yeah loving the haze, the most important thing and also wearing it, and you start with what you have how I started. I started with just a skill, a skill of making weeks. I was making weeks for people in 2017 and yeah. I was just making weeks and people would ask me: do you sell hey there when I buy hey, they don't know where to buy hair and all that. So I realized okay, my people need hair. What should I do 2017? I was a student. I don't have like a capital to buy hair so 2018. I was the student, but I was awaking. Students like I was a demi, so we were paid for that and yeah. I could take up some of my money and buy to start like sailing for people. I didn't really buy a lot of hair like I bought a couple of inches aboard like ten inch for shorter hair. I bought straight around 16 and I bought one which is 20 inches, which the 20 inch I never sold, guys like our world and it was mine, cause nobody, nobody ever bought it. So, hence you must really really really love him. So yeah. I started off very. Very, very small, so after gathering money you need to get a head bender. Where do you get heaven there? So, luckily, for me in China 17, I was like working with different hairs from people right. When I was making weeks for them. I could see different hair qualities and I could see the ones I liked the ones. I think they are really good quality. So there was this one lady who had like a very good quality, Hey, and I asked him: where did she buy it? She told me she gave me the contacts of the person. The only problem with that vendor is that she was expensive for me. There isn't why I'm saying that is because, let's say her her ten interest like around 1,000. So if 10 inch straight is around 1000. In 2018, how much am I gon na sell at 1200 who's gon na? Buy it because a lot of people in 2018 they were selling 10 inch around 800 900. Maybe now you can get a 10 inch, 3 petrol and 3 Pedroza for 1200. The ivett people who sell like 10 inch front are around 1300, so it would be a very IRA's. It was a bit of a challenge for me because people were like I'm expensive, but they were not telling it straight to my face. I only found out after getting another, there was like a very affordable addenda that gave me stock price. So, first of all, you must get a bender and after getting the bender make the vendor away that you are like reselling, the hale. They should be able like or be in a position to give you stock price, and you must guarantee them that you're gon na be always buy with them, because there's no use if they're gon na give you stock price and then you're gon na go to someone Else and some vendors they have like a number of bundles that you must buy the stock price. So when I started off with my new vendor, she told me that I should buy like Oh guys, I'm not even installing the air. I told you when, where do I even start with the hair? Okay, I'm gon na start by by Linda here, so the vendor told me I should fight at least six. You know bundles for spoke. Six bundles is not bad, but I should have at least two clients to buy six bundles right, because one hate me uses like three bangles so yeah that was agreement. But now I buy like even three bundles for surprise. So yeah, you must have like a relationship with your vendor, find a vendor and have a relationship with it. So where do you find it? I know people who okay, I can't personally tell you who's my vendor. Thank guys, I mean business. I mean business. I can't just tell you who is my vendor. I don't know if you are interested to know who's. My vendor, like let's talk in the DM right and if you are serious but like studying your own, let's talk in the DM, but I know people who buy hair from a Aliexpress. Personally, I don't like hair from Aliexpress, because one I once tried buy something from Aliexpress which never arrived. I think it's a mini can hand, you know those bigger ones yeah, it never arrived. That is number one number two I've heard that what they post on the Aliexpress page or whatever it is it's not the same quality with the real hair. So and another thing I realize that vendors would say this is Peruvian, whereas it's like Brazilian, so you will never know if they are sending you any hair or human hair or, of course, these people most of them. I in China yeah like Alex Brisbane design in China, so if they said you here hey, how are you going to ship it back to them like it's a long process? So, for such reasons, I don't recommend an Express and quality and the fact that I can't be able to retain when I have problems and I've heard people a lot of American hair, stylist, say D by hair from Alibaba. They say Alibaba is like Indian vendors, Brazilian. So it's not common to get fake, hair or hair that is looking otherwise, so do check out Alibaba I've been saying: I will check it, but I haven't really checked it. I will also check Alibaba, so yeah, google, also, you can Google heaviness, but just make sure you don't get the one that is ex like if a vendor sells 10-inch for like 1,000. There is no job in there because if they sell it for 1000, how much are you going to sell it for 1500? You know you can't do that. That is the price for people who have audience people who are established in the business. So you can be one thing to compete with people who are established and you are so expensive unless you are easily loved or well-known by people, because I know people who just arrived in whatever they do. Just because a lot of people know them and also a lot of people, love them so yeah. You find that you get people that wouldn't mind cleans at 105. But for someone who is not really known starting from the bottom and studying to sell, is like a freelance I, like myself, you don't have like a stall you're, just selling online. You rely on your advertisement, like you, just have to start with vendors that are very, very affordable and vendors that sell good quality hair. Can you guys see like the difference this water is making all these kills? You may end up thinking it's what's her weave, whereas it's not and that's one other important thing, especially with Kells. When you receive Charles, you must just try to moisture them with water and seal the moisture with oil. They will look so much better. So so so much better, so the only way to know if and then there's those good quality hair is through buying with them. So when you are still testing our vendors, you don't buy a lot of hair. You buy like maybe 1/10 inch. That would make up a week like three bundles and a closure, and if you do the week, you worry you worried and you see how it goes like when you commit there's a chair and you wash it when you wash it how it reacts to water. That is how you know different vendors, because if you don't give yourself time to know like which is this vendor of us, this kind of hate this one of us, this kind of hate you will settle for bed hair and you won't have clients coming back. So I went to fill my water bottle. This water bottle sprays so nicely cuz. The water is like like a powder, but it's very smooth so yeah. I went to fill it up so get a good hair vendor right and if you want to know about hair qualities, I did a video last year showing you different kinds of hair and how you cannotice and high quality and low quality. Here, I'm hoping to do the same video or similar video sometime with longer inches, cuz n curls as well cuz. On that video I used very short, hey. I used 10 inch yeah cuz. Currently I don't buy a lot of hair. I could I don't keep here with me. I stopped and here's a reason why you don't want to be buying a lot of hair that doesn't have clients and you're going to end up remaining with that hey and you lose that money. You end up wearing that hair, it's good for advertisement, but if that hair doesn't get clients cuz you know, and in this business there are a lot of highs and lows just like in any business. There are months where, like it's like, very, very dry, like in January, I don't have any child Jane yeah, I don't have any client. I started having clients around Feb February and now my coming today, I was talking to new people you. I can tell that you know people are studying it's the a mojo bank. You know there's nothing to be financially stable, Nia and I gain now that it's no longer Jen. So there's a lot of hair suppliers on Instagram. You can tell that, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start like it doesn't mean you shouldn't start like I said you may find that you are a very people's person. People like you and you start the business. It buns like that and as people who don't know people, we still remain with our 10th loyal clients, which is very important to have oil trains, and I will tell you how you keep loyal clients so yeah. There are very high in those guys like a lot of highs and lows, especially if you are doing something on the side. Like myself, I am currently a student yeah. I enrolled for another degree cos and the sphere is more like going back to when I was going back to 2017. I don't have like a lot of time to do here. I would retain people like when I'm writing tests and exams. I wouldn't really do here. Yeah, no matter how much I wanted, but because of I had to study, I wouldn't really from here, so I went back to Anna grade. I don't have as much time as I had last year when I was doing my Master's, so it's actually quite challenging like when it comes to time it's very challenging having to do to do a week having to do here for advertisement, because this business needs a Lot of advertisement, like you do eggs, you take pictures, you post them on your Instagram and it's so important to do your own, wigs and advertise your own work. It'S something that you can do and know by of Ken. So if you still someone else's picture and you're, not really sure if you can do it, it's going to be a problem. You can have a problem with your clients, so you're going to find that the people who will call you scammers and all that. So you must always advertise with your own materials. So that's why you find me some weeks, I'm posting and some weeks, I'm quiet, cuz advertise me. Advertising requires money and time. You need money to buy hair for advertising and it's not guaranteed that that he will be bought right. But if you do it right, it looks very beautiful. You take beautiful pictures, very insta, beautiful pictures. People will buy. If you don't have things like a ring lights, you can actually take pictures outdoor in the Sun because it will give like a very clear picture of the hair quality. You know we can tell if it's nice here - it's not nice here, but if it's a black-and-white or it's a blurry picture, we're not sure what's going on who's gon na buy people want to buy what they see and if you wan na tag it like people Of high-class, you must take high-class pictures, invest in your picture, quality and the quality of your hair. So talking about your target market, you can you don't have to specify just say females who wear weeks it can be students, it can be working class, it can be middle class, it can be very rich people. You can target all these four people only by posting, beautiful pictures and at a very affordable rates, or if you don't have affordable rates, make sales for those people who don't really afford high rates like you can keep your normal prices for the working class. You know, and some days just make sales even for those hairs that are not bought. You just put them on sale, so I'm gon na be sealing the moisture which is water. Both those hair serum from PETA is life. You can use any oil of your choice, but even this one, it's very good. You can get it from kids and just camp camp and yeah, okay, guys. Okay, as I said, you start with what you have guys man and you don't even start like at a very perfect level. Like honestly, when I started doing weeks, I was just doing wigs. I don't have any special skill, but I could you know, move my hand. Okay, I'm lying guys - I doing here for me has been it. Does it's not that difficult for me, because I remember first year I used to braid myself. So it's it's not really that difficult, and I also have a sister who knows how to do here. So yeah, I think maybe it's indefinitely, I don't know but yeah you don't have to be perfect. Remember we all start some way. You know we all start some way. There are people who can just go to hair care amis, which are very scarce in South Africa, but there are people who are baked in the game that offer like lessons. So you find out that someone who can go there and they become perfect. And when I, with your skill, you are just there, you know still trying to elevate like myself. I don't think I'm already day. Oh, although I get people who, like would say like you, you do hear so well blah blah blah. I don't think I'm the it's like, I'm still struggling, but you know what you start some way. You don't say no. My closure looks like this. No, like you, you can't learn without trial, so you have to keep on doing it until you get it right. Okay, so what do I really do? Do I cut off the lace before or okay? There lace stick very well. If you do it first before you actually before, you actually cut off the lace, but today I want to try, because I'm not using spray today, I'm using the gel. So I'm just gon na cut the lace by the way the a different type of lace. Colors, does this Turkish one? Is this a beige one and there's a grey one? The grey one is very, very bad like it's so bad. My Vina usually has these ones when she has pages like my lucky days, but usually as these ones and as you can see, they're big talk for me, but they look better. After, like applying my foundation or my powder, you know a foundation or powder that matches your skin color but yeah, the three colors that I've seen this one beige and gray great. It'S a no-go area. It'S big ugly, guys it's a no-go area, so I'm gon na be cutting off the lace first and then glue it after yeah. Do it afterwards, let's see, let me just online there's a mirror behind my camera, so I could see to me so the elastic Bend shouldn't be very close to your ear, like your sideburns should be like some way here so that it doesn't disturb you when you Have to glue down or anything like that, it's okay! I think it's bad, so I'm just gon na cut off the list now, but if I was using the blood spray, I was gon na spray first and then laid down then afterwards. That'S when I would like glue it down so today, I'm not using the blood spray, guys blast, I'm tired of it like it's tiring and I think it does like tempis with hairline so yeah, I'm I'm not using it today. So how do you make money in the business, so you make money according to how much effort you put in the business? How much effort I'm talking about advertising? How often do you advertise, you know your prices and your picture qualities and your retaining trends. So you must always make sure that your current clients are happy so that they can return and buy some more. Those are your loyal clients. So if someone buys the first time with you, you must do a follow-up. Hey did you receive your hair how's, the hair, treating you do you like it blah blah blah you just survey would see like. Do they like me here a day coming back and yeah? If, if you have people who buy with you now make sure you keep them guys, those are your people like those are your people. If a client is happy, she will definitely come back. I am sure about that. She will definitely come back so make trance very happy. So how do you make clients happy? You must do the right thing. That'S all when you make a week like make sure which is the right thing, because people may not even tell you that your my week, I don't like it that we kept as big. Then we kept us doing this. You just see someone's you're, quiet and not talking to you anymore. So do the right thing when it comes to weeks when it comes to hair qualities, you don't want to be selling people hair. Just because when I want money, no don't be that selfish happy! These people are also using their own money to buy this hair. So what do you expect them to do with pet hair? Like imagine you buy here now and a month later, you realize that's bad. What would you do if it was you would you be happy? No, you wouldn't so don't treat people the way you wouldn't want to be treated. You know don't because if you do you're going to be one of those I'm here, suppliers who get dragged on Instagram, I have seen her supplier straight, like people saying things like your hands: bad blah, blah blah like publicly and all that. It'S not good for your business, so do the right thing find the right vendor and keep your clients happy, and your business war will go on because they're, loyal clients does Reese a a hippie client does rafail one client I mean: does your failure, one client and Another client they do refer like I get quite a number of referrals, and I am so happy because it actually means you're doing something right. If you get referrals, you know when someone tells you that hey, I saw you made a wig for so-and-so. I like it and how much is the hair I'd like to order and stuff like that? It'S good for yourself. It boosts your ego and also it's good for your business. I don't know if you've realized that I don't have a lot of pitch on my hair page, I'm gon na place the name here or here I don't have a lot of pictures. I'Ve been chopping down pictures. I don't like I wan na, keep that the page very clean and very beautiful. Oh last year December, like yeah to us the same around November, like I did like okay guys, I need a very close mirror now, just to see. What'S going on before I apply my foundation or powder and before I apply a clean, you guys. I don't like this lace for myself, like it's very dark like way too dark. I think I'm gon na make this a demo naked. You know these weeks that I usually use for my page like this one. I make them demo like the ones I use for my channel. I make them demo weeks like say that every bit of a year is Nobel Prize and not their normal price caters. When I over cut so yeah, I think I'm gon na make it a ten week. It'S very done for me guys very baby Doug and also don't over plug your friends holes guys don't over plug them, because over time I realized that frontals do share day. They shared if they are over bleached and over plugged. So I was about to tell you that last year, around December ish, I did a hair review for cranberry, Hey and at the same time I was I was busy with someone else's hair, like she recently made an order. That was like almost 4k like she wanted. Four panels for 26 inch Katie here, imagine four bedrooms. So yeah it's a lot of money with a frontal. It'S a lot of money, so girl orders he pays and okay, that's fine! I'M like okay, give me four days to work on your hair. You know first two days it's order like if you are paying between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the other two days is for me to bleach knots, make the week and send it to you if you're far from me, but if you're around you can come and Collect and why, anyway, I stayed right, so girl sees a post of me on cranberries here and I take cranberry, obviously, and as I mentioned, where I got to here, so she privately deemed me was like she was like. Don'T tell me this is way by here. I understood away, she was coming from guys, like I said about the pilot, the quality is not, it was blown, hey and blown. He is like the quench is not the best to be honest, so she she was furious. I think she was like. Don'T tell me this is where you buy here. It was like no relax. This is not where by hey, I'm just collaborating with a brand, so I think doing her reviews for me, that's very confusing for my clients and hence for now. I won't be doing hair reviews unless you know I really really like your hair quality and I wouldn't really mind recommending to someone so yeah. I won't be doing hearing news because of my advice and hair qualities. I wouldn't really want to recommend something you wouldn't really wear for long. You know. So that's that's. The case. Trends are very dramatic. One thing you must know I think, recently February. I was dealing with this other one. It'S her first time buying online, like it's a first time buying something online like buying Instagram. So a girl is Nick. You know what panicking is. She was penny so guys. I applied some of my foundation off camera because it seems like me talking and doing it's gon na. Take me forever. Whoo, okay, guys my bait read ID and I did some parts of my face. I still need to contour add some powder, some leashes and lipstick. Another thing I forgot to apply a gel after applying the oil, so I wanted to the say to look like watery. You know, so I have to like lock it with gel. I'M thinking, I'm gon na use this one from Vida is life. It'S a molding gel. So I have three more pointers just to share with you guys quickly quickly. I know this video is getting too long. One more thing, as you start setting the hey with like people around you, like your family, your friends, your colleagues like myself hours in a school setting, so I was saying to other students and don't ever give them credits like they get used to it, and some People take advantage and they take time to paint. You know just be strict or things it doesn't matter how? Well you know the pens like when it comes to many people act funny very funny, so be very strict when it comes to money. Another thing that your friends and family and people you know they may not buy from you, they may not buy from you and you you shouldn't, be sad guys. You shouldn't be sad because of that, because people have freedom to buy with whoever they wan na buy. With but those kind of people is those people that will come back to you and ask for help something like. Oh, I bought hey. It'S very few. Can you lend me one bundle? I will pay a month later. Oh recently, I had an incident where some girl did a week with someone. So like the side pants were not covering, it was a friend, so they were not covering. So she was like. Can you? What did she say or can I fix it, meaning? I should read doing stuff like that. I was like nah, I'm busy cuz. The boring thing is that girl was talking to me throughout December then been Jenna wari. She comes to me with hair, like nah, I'm busy, and I'm not available to me so yeah - be strict in the business, be very, very strict and don't settle for less. There are people who would like convince you to reduce the price. Your prices are your prices? Don'T allow someone to say please reduce with 100 range. Can you beat this price and so-and-so is selling for how much then they should go and buy with whoever that is selling the head of any cheaper price? And let you be who you want to be their people who take advantage, see rias advantage and don't allow them? Okay, guys. This is my final look. This hair is super long. If I remember very well, I think that's 20 inch rise was like 14 inches, frontal and yeah. I love the curls very soft and they are not even heavy on the head. I love anyway guys thanks for watching and don't forget to just start. If you really wan na start just that, and if you have any burning question that I don't answer, do ask it in the comment section or you can give me on my Instagram, I'm more than willing to help. I don't really mind as long as I can help anyway. Don'T forget to subscribe like and comment for more videos see you in my next upload bye.