{"id":417448,"date":"2017-09-12T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/12\/meet-the-lady-taking-the-barbering-business-serious-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:30:22","slug":"meet-the-lady-taking-the-barbering-business-serious-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/12\/meet-the-lady-taking-the-barbering-business-serious-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the lady taking the barbering business serious in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 12 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>yen.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/79285369.295.jpg\" alt=\"Woman Barber 1\" title=\"Woman Barber 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"480\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Frimpomaah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505215822_518_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> When barbering is mentioned in Ghana, not many links such a job to women, as it is normally regarded as a job for males.<\/p>\n<p>However, somewhere in Kumasi, there is a young lady who is apparently rewriting the scripts for all to see. Frimpomaah Owusu Ansah is one that is redefining barbering in Ghana, albeit being a lady.<\/p>\n<p>On a daily basis, she works as a barber and a makeup artiste for both males and females.<\/p>\n<p>Her story was brought to light by a Facebook user named Apos Prospero Ntim, who claims Frimpomaah is his sister.<\/p>\n<p>Commending below a publication by Yen.com.gh telling the rare story of another lady who is a barber in Nigeria, Kehinde Onaopemipo Adeola, Ntim took the opportunity to share the story of his sister to the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Frimpomaah&#8217;s hands &#8220;are blessed with many job skills [that] she carries. [She] barbers (both male and female hair cut, perming cut), nails makeup, eye lashing, pedicure, eye brow tattooing, temporal body tattooing and she also plaints hair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, she used to work for somebody, but stopped due to unstated reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was working for someone but for now she has stopped\u2026 we have found her a container hence soon she will be a master and start working for herself,&#8221; Ntim disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Having a female barber is very rare in Ghana, but for this young lady, that is what she always wanted to do and it&#8217;s a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p><b> Click &#8220;Photos&#8221; for more <\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 24 updated by: 24 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Source: yen.com.gh 2017-09-12 Frimpomaah &#13; When barbering is mentioned in Ghana, not many links such a job to women, as it is normally regarded as a job for males. 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