Entrepreneurship is no longer quite what it used to be. The high streets have long begun to surrender themselves to sectors which, not too many years ago, used to be no more than hobbies and the contemporary entrepreneurs who had once ‘dabbled’ in these pursuits as no more than hobbies are now doing brisk business out of vastly expanded demand.
The phenomenon manifests itself mostly in the fashion business. Body beauty, for example, is no longer the exclusive pursuit of the outgoing woman. It has become part of who women are. Hair, faces, nails – all are fashioned and re-fashioned to make statements about the wearers. Globally, the market for these once modest beauty niches amounts to billions of dollars. Here in Guyana it amounts to a pretty good living for those who have made a success of it.
Rebecca Cox concedes that she is excited by the glitter of the glue and the nail polish and by the physical transformation that they
