A woman came up with a name for her new business after "loads of weird things" started happening to her.
Alix Scott, 24, from Old Swan has been a hairdresser since leaving school at the age of 16 but has now launched a second business alongside hairdressing with her best friend. And it all started when Alix was planning her vision for her salon.
Alix told the ECHO: “I wanted some neon signs in the salon, so one day I got some online and, let's just say, I paid through the roof for them and I sat there and I was saying to my best friend we could do this. We worked out how much money we could make and started speaking to some suppliers and realised we would be stupid to not do this.”
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Alix and her best friend Yuseff El Gadhy met in school 15 years ago, and made an agreement that if a name for the business came to them in the following few weeks, they would go for it. Alix said: “One day I had a really weird week where loads of weird things were happening to me and all I was saying all week was ‘it’s a sign’ to start the business and then one day I was sat there with my best mate and went oh my god ‘it's a sign’ that's the name, so that’s where it all began.”
‘It’s a sign’ specialises in custom neon signs where customers can ‘get literally anything on the signs’. Alix said: “We will get some ideas from the customers, send them over to the suppliers, get designs made for us and then we will go ahead and order them. We get them sent to us first to quality check them before sending them directly to the customers.”
Alix admitted that it is hard juggling her time running two businesses but added that ‘it’s all for a purpose’. She explained that she wants to stay in the ‘hair game’ selling extensions as “it’s really profitable” and she “loves doing it”.
The extensions Alix supplies are all custom made to perfectly match the client so no set of extensions are the same. She also offers a service where if she fitted a custom made weft of hair extensions and you then thought you would prefer a different method of extensions such as nano beads, she can send them back to the suppliers in Russia and get them changed.
Alix said she would love to expand ‘It’s a sign’ and get ‘into more social media’. She excitedly added that she also has a few exciting auditions this year and is hoping people will be seeing more of her.
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