I started makeup artistry right from my days at the University of Port-Harcourt as a student of Biochemistry. Makeup was also the first job I did after school. I knew a long time ago that I wasn’t going to practice Biochemistry because I actually did the course to make my parents happy. While at school, I was also travelling to Jos with night bus to buy gold jewelry which I sold in school. Later on, I started collecting Mary Kay from a church member to sell.

In recent years, the entertainment sub-sector in the country has witnessed the increasing introduction of beauty pageants in various forms and shades. From Miss Nigeria, which started in 1957, to Silverbird Group’s Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, MBGN, others such as Queen Nigeria, Miss Teen Nigeria, Miss Nigeria in America, Miss Earth Nigeria, Sisi Oge, Miss Heritage Nigeria and so on, have sprung up.

DOLAPO Badmus, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) is one woman that exudes an alluring aura aside the combatant-fitted persona she exhibits at work. Despite being a crime fighter and Police spokesperson, her unassuming demeanor and fashionable traits says a lot about her as a passionate career woman. While speaking as a guest at a confidence coaching programme by Abiola Salami’s Xceptional Women Network in Lagos recently, she expressed how looking good has not affected her job as a Policewoman and however, berates the notion that Nigerian Policemen dress shabbily.

I’m doing everything I used to do in the past as usual, but in moderation. You know, in Nigeria, if you don’t know how to manage yourself, you will be in trouble. If you say you want to be like the Jones; you’ll be in big trouble. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t know what recession is because I’ve always lived my life in moderation. If anyone is doing aso-ebi and I cannot afford the price, I simply tell them I can’t pay for it. Truly, it’s very easy to cope in Nigeria if you know how to manage your resources.

I FIRST met Mavi Isibor some sixteen years ago, in the early days of Poise, when she was starting a camp for teenagers and she and her then partner came as guests on my TV show, today’s woman to talk about etiquette, the camp and more…