…Pioneers Local Hair Wig Production and Export
Driven by a deep-hearted passion for her profession, 24-year
old Grace Chizioma Okezie is on a mission, promoting
local content with excellence in Africa’s beauty care sector.
The
patriotic hairstylist is credibly beautifying, inspiring and leading women of
Africa to embrace world-class local hair care contents made with excellence in
Africa as innovative socio-economic bricks to rebuild and restyle the social
economy of the fatherland Africa, an economy which for many years has remained
mostly influenced and dominated by colonial and other economic superpowers from
outside Africa.
Equipped with an over-10-years practical experience as a
beautician and a testimonial bag that boasts of her well-reputed professional
certifications including the Diploma in Makeup
Artistry and Headgear Arts obtained from
the prestigious CVI Institute, the Lagos-based Ms.
Okezie pioneers uncommon expertise in transforming local hair into
world-class wearable wigs in Nigeria sells them within Nigeria and exports them
to make them satisfy wig lovers across Africa and even beyond while boosting
the inward flow of foreign exchange to the motherland.
The native
of Umuahia local government area (LGA) of Abia
State in South-East Nigeria runs her
mission from Graceeycurls Enterprise, her Lagos-based
one-stop shop for all things beauty, fully incorporated and now with a staff
strength of eight experienced and constantly retrained specialists in hair and
makeup artistry as well as manicure and pedicure routines. With this team, she
is consciously and cautiously cultivating her firm’s reputation for excellent
service delivery, a classy discerning clientele, and a steadily teeming
patronage.
In her quest
to reposition the local hair wigs as widely acceptable and sustainable
counterparts to the foreign artificial hair brands dominating the African
marketplace now, Ms. Okezie is
openly observed and reputed for her goal-driven hard work and her premium value
placed on the integrity of her services as well as her firm’s cosmetic
products, exotic perfumes, prestigious designer items of clothing and classy
female accessories.
It is in view and record of these feats that the highly revered West African Youth Council recently invested in Okezie the much-coveted NELSON MANDELA LEADERSHIP AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AND INTEGRITY, enlisting her to join the league of other leading young people in Africa who have distinguished themselves as exemplary in their respective professions.
From the top echelon of the Council, Okezie received a
prestigious framed certificate of recognition signed on October 12th, 2021 by
the Chairperson of the West
African Youth Council, H.E. (Ambassador) Emmanuel S. William who
said that “the award is to celebrate Grace Chizioma Okezie and to
encourage young people within her spheres of influence to standardize the
transformation of our abundant resources in Africa as finished consumer
products or as input materials for further production in the global market, selling
our stuff from our homeland to the world“.
Also received along with the Certificate are a diplomatic ID
card and a specialized automobile plate number to ease her cross-country
movements across the ECOWAS region.
Running her vocational race steadily, the petit and pretty
professional hairstylist is steadily building her vision to see women embrace
more local content in their hair care and hairstyling.
As a quintessential lady with an unquenchable drive to succeed
in her ventures, the visionary go-getter has also recently veered into the real
estate sector where she is already making a visible impact.
In her words, “Being graceful is being polite and pleasant to
people with all that you have. I am Grace by name and by my core personal
value. Politeness and pleasantness are what I am being driven to give to my
world through what we naturally have in abundance. Our human hair never stops
growing, yet some of us are not so fortunate with enough quality hair. So, I am
only using my grace to make those of us with plenty of quality natural hair
share that with those who do not have enough of it for one reason or the other.
And I believe that should be done with utmost politeness to our customers in
order to ultimately give them a special experience of the pleasantness in using
our products and patronizing our services”.
Ms Okezie has many more exciting sides to her vibrant character which she hopes to explore and exploit as time goes on, including her love for cooking continental dishes and singing as well as dancing to good and classic highlife music.
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