THE TARA GLOW

Securing a job in Lagos is quite difficult, scrap that “quite”. It’s extremely difficult, growing up is not fun, I wish I could be a child forever.... my friend Toye laughed out loud as she watched me nag. On a brighter note, she had invited me for her friends wedding on the condition that I had to slay, as we tried to get ready, a message popped on my phone informing me, I was not among the selected applicants for a job, I had hoped to get, I just sunk in my chair and wept my eyes sore, my friend had no choice but to pet me like a child whose mum had just thrashed angrily. I even suggested not going but she will hear of no such thing.

Toye Is one of the strongest women I know, she is the president of turning bad situation into testimonies. I call her “Pepper dem Mama”. She sat me down and brought out the TA 45 powder she got me as a birthday gift, she got me a complete make up set, I remember her telling me she wants me to become an “orekelewa” ambassador and I had told her when I land a good job, I”ll take her advice. I looked like a queen, when she was done, I couldn’t believe she had not applied any foundation on my face, just Tara (45) powder and I had turned into a flawless being, she added class by applying Tara’s High Shine Lip stain and blusher for the “pepper dem look”. I over took pictures before stepping out and of course Toye was smoking hot, she used “funke” Tara’s red lipstick to pop up the well blended Tara”s trio eye shadow, she had applied on both our faces. We were transformed into “omoge”s by the time the blusher landed on our cheeks, I just prayed that the groom doesn’t mistake us for the bride.

The party was fun, plenty to eat and drink and as expected we had more admirers, mostly females everyone wanted to know, what product? they were stunned it was a made in Nigeria product. It was time for the “boogie down section” when the elder sister of the bride beckoned at us to help monitor the new drinks brought in by the grooms friend at the car pack before the servers cart away with it, a few other of the brides friend joined us and we got chatting when suddenly a heavy down pour began, the shocking thing was that, the girls that had foreign brands on, had their make up washed up but
Toye and I remained as flawless as ever, they were quick to run to the rest room and re-apply their make up. Two of the girls asked me to help them get a complete set of the Tara’s product and as a sharp girl I added my own Commission.

As the event wrapped up, a woman in her early fifties worked up to me, she admired my look, we got talking and I realised, she was the head of human resources of a multi national firm, I supplied her Tara products and after some private interview basically for documentation purposes. I landed a job bigger than my resume.... I’m grateful to God for my happy ending and of course I took Toye’s advice.