Ms. Meg Lusembo is on the path of joining the club of Ugandan female self-made millionaires with her beauty company – Smukke Lashes.
Apparently the former model, who started her brand only two years ago, had previously never planned to become a businesswoman.
Before 2018, this beauty influencer was like a lot of recent graduates, working hard at jobs that didn’t always reflect her true passion.
As she made her way, she would make an important realization: Success wasn’t just about working hard, which she had always done. Success was about finding fulfillment.
The idea of starting her own fashion business came from a wedding she attended in early 2018.
Turning point
It was on the day when she went to attend a friend’s wedding ceremony in 2018 that she was asked to help prepare the bride.
All that made her happy was the look of the bride whose appearance was amazing after she chose to put eyelashes on her eyes.
Before this wedding, Lusembo says she had the eyelash business in mind, which she had birthed in 2017 but she had waited to find the right time and also sample out her potential on the right person until when an opportunity arrived. After the wedding, she saw an opportunity to start her own business.
“After attending my friend’s wedding and further realized that she had trouble in getting the perfect lashes, I realized that it was an opportunity to venture into the business and I created my own line of eyelashes made in Denmark and sold here in Kampala,” she adds.
“The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.