When it comes to fashion, seasonal changes comes with seasonal looks, colors, designs, and styles to fit the mood of the person. Women are especially experts at this. They’re always making sure their looks are one of their top priorities and keeping up with their hygiene and style is also very important to a woman. Specifically, nails are an essential part of a woman’s self care as well. The length of a nail, the styles, colors, designs, they’re all an important factor in a woman’s personal taste in her nails. There’s one young woman in particular whose an expert at nails and does an amazing job at doing what she does. A young entrepreneur on the rise making a name for herself and her business around the way. Coming from The Bronx, NY, raised in the Edenwald Projects, Latarah F. has a passion for beauty. Born on July 6th, 1992, I’ve gotten the chance to get to the real deal about her nail business. She claims that her inspiration came from the older women who’s always had their nails done no matter when or where she’s seen them. “I also got the inspiration from doing moms feet & I was surprisingly good at it even back then.” She goes on to say “I’ve heard the saying, ‘when you do what you love, it’s not a job anymore’ And who really wants to work, right? Lol My start came from doing my mothers feet and again surprisingly being good at it. She’ll get me all the tools, although neither of us knew what we was doing and no one knew about YouTube yet lol. We definitely made it work.” Definitely a time before YouTube when you had to learn how to do things by reading a book, learning by watching somebody else or others doing it, or teaching yourself how to do it. This is also the typical mother and daughter bond with doing nails, makeup, plus more. “The only regret I have is not starting sooner professionally. Besides that NO. GOD’s timing is punctual, Trust in him and everything will come when its suppose to. I wouldn’t do anything different.” Only people who reach a certain level in their field could truly understand those words. You think back on you humble beginnings and your start and wish you had known earlier but you’re still proud to be doing it and how far you’ve come. When it comes to the future, Latarah says, “Well my short term (3 years) I wish to gain as much clientele as I could. (5 years) Opening Up my own store front that says, LATARAH NAILED IT.. Just imagine I can see the flashing lights now. (10 years) The Money is basically making itself at this point!” Sounds like great plans for the future! Ladies, if you need some work on your nails and want someone who can hook you up and come to you, you can find Latarah on Instagram @latarah_nailed_it.
Written by Jalen Hemphill