Business
Recession: Hair Dressers Record Low Patronage
Hair beauty operators, also known as hair dressers are groaning under the present economic down turn following the high cost of hair styling materials.
Some of them who spoke to The Tide in separate interviews, Wednesday in Port Harcourt, and its environs say weavon, popularly known as attachment has gone up from N200 to more than N500.
According to Mabin King, a stylist who specialises on a variety of hair styles, the development has given customers the opportunity of keeping old attachments for further use.”
“Before now, women threw away old ones as soon as they lose their hairdo.
“But now, they wash them and use again and again”, she complained.
For Ada Oge, a dealer on weave-on products, the story has been the same.
While lamenting the low sales occasioned by the economic situation, she said before now “I restock every two weeks but now I hardly restock on monthly basis”.
She also explained that some of her customers have even decided to have their hairs cut.
“I phoned some of my customers only to find out that they have decided to go on low cut”, she said.
However, some women who were seen putting on expensive hairdo who spoke to The Tide said they are now forced to leave them for a longer time before losing them off.
“Before now, I visit my salooner every one month for a change but now I do so every two months”, one woman explained.
Some of the men folk who spoke to The Tide on the development expressed happiness even as they said no right thinking house wife would demand money for hairdo during the Christmas season and new year.
The Tide further gathered that the frequent washing of the weaveon materials also affects the quality, thereby prompting most women to go on low cut in order to avoid wasting scarce resources.
According to The Tide investigation, the development may not be unconnected to the absence of spent weaveon or attachment at public dumps and elsewhere across the state capital and its environs.
Formerly, source said, these materials were disposed of indiscriminately with the attendant environmental hazard.
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