Two matric girls and a first-year varsity student from Delft have started a hairdressing business in a bid to become financially stable.
The three girls, who offer cheap prices for washes, blowdries and flat ironing, are known as Courtney & Co.
Nikita Coulsen, 18, is in matric at Voorbrug High School; Courtney Johnson, 18, is in matric at Perseverance High in Belhar; while Michaela Hendricks, 20, is studying Sports Management at Northlink College.
The matric girls say the venture is also to raise money for their matric balls taking place later this year.
Courtney plans to study education and Nikita has been provisionally accepted at UWC to follow her dream of becoming an occupational therapist.
Nikita and Courtney are cousins and Michaela is Courtney’s aunt.
The girls are now saving all their profits for a wash basin, so that they can set up shop at Courtney’s home in Voorbrug.
For now, the girls travel all over Delft to the homes of clients with their brushes, hairdryers and flat irons, saying a prayer for safety and making women and girls look and feel beautiful.
Nikita says they have a wide variety of clients who include old and young, people with “ gladde hare”, and those with curly tops and kinks.
BLOWN AWAY: Nikita, Michaela and Courtney
The girls use no chemicals, but rather rely on advising their clients on what shampoo and conditioner and other products are reg for their hair.
Their secret weapon is a gevaarlike wrist-action when blowdrying, that will make your hair look like it comes right off the cover of a magazine.
The only thing they don’t do (yet) is cutting clients’ hair, but this is where Courtney’s mom, Beulah Brown, steps in.
Courtney says they never had any formal training, rather “learning how to handle our own hair from small”.
“People know we are not pros, but they like what we do,” Courtney says.
A wash, blow and flat iron cost just R30 for mense with short hair, and up to R80 for long hair.
HOUSE CALL: The girls work their magic in clients’ homes
Courtney says she is ready to be a boss lady.
“We want to show people that just because we are from Delft and we are not rich people, doesn’t mean we
cannot be
successful,” she says.
“It does not matter where you come from, nothing defines you except your choice to either fail at life or become a positive role model.”