Manicure street vending is 'in'

A few years ago, the hair scene in Botswana experienced a shake as clients moved from comforts of the salons to cheaper street vendors. Now the manicure street vending is following suit.

While it took a while to reach other beauty trades, the fever has now hit and there are manicure street vendors mushrooming in and around Gaborone.

 Towards the end of 2013 the streets of the main mall and the bus rank has a flood of nail business advertisers, in the form of flyers and marketing assistants approaching people. Monica Rammai is one in the flourishing industry. She runs Just Nails with a partner, who has been running the business at their makeshift nail parlour for two years now.

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