00:00My name is Ana Manuela Montero de Armas.
00:04I'm a hairdresser and professional stylist.
00:06I'm very proud of my town.
00:08Above all, I'm from my town, Jaimanica.
00:11A town of fishermen.
00:14It's a deep field.
00:18If you apply the internet, you can go fishing.
00:20Almost 100% of the time.
00:22There's self-employment.
00:26It's a Cuban trade.
00:29No, no, no. It's like this.
00:31The diagnosis of the hair first.
00:33Arm hair.
00:35A lot of hair.
00:37Almost 90 to 100% of the hair.
00:40But it's applied with black ink.
00:42Therefore, you have to work with
00:44hair wax in volume 20.
00:46And clean, hydrated hair.
00:50For the job to be done.
00:52Mastery.
00:54This is a particular
00:56product of Anita.
00:59Very well known in the town of Jaimanitas.
01:03And she has been a teacher of many hairdressers.
01:07A vast experience in the hair salon.
01:11And now with the new perspective
01:13of self-employment.
01:15Anita is going to tell us
01:17what are her options.
01:20Her possibilities.
01:22Where she buys the products.
01:24If they are very expensive.
01:26Very expensive.
01:28And how are the prices?
01:30Talk to us a little bit, Anita,
01:32about this job as a hairdresser in Cuba.
01:34Very difficult.
01:36Very difficult because
01:38one thing does not correspond to another.
01:40The prices of the products
01:42when purchased are too expensive.
01:44The prices of the clients
01:46are super expensive.
01:48So,
01:50one thing moves with the other.
01:53In no way down.
01:57I've been three days without combing
01:59because I added it.
02:01The price of the Ani products.
02:03The price, imagine.
02:051200 pesos.
02:07The dyes
02:09range between 1200 and 1500 pesos.
02:11More or less.
02:13Of any color.
02:15Of any color.
02:17The color is not what determines.
02:19The dyes of a liter
02:21cost 3000 pesos.
02:23Dyes, gold.
02:25The dyes are
02:27in 3000.
02:29According to the brands.
02:31That depends a lot on the brands.
02:33The best dyes
02:35are in 3000.
02:37The hair surgeries
02:39are almost 5000.
02:41The keratin
02:435000.
02:45What job do you do?
02:47You have to charge
02:49to get what you want.
02:51Sometimes you don't get
02:53any profit.
02:55What you do is work.
02:57But it's not because you make a lot of money.
02:59It's much less.
03:01You're getting the cost of what it cost you.
03:03The product.
03:05All the clients are the same.
03:07Of the few hairdressers
03:09that are left,
03:11they are the few
03:13that work with their hearts.
03:15I do it because I like it.
03:17But really,
03:21this is not a business.
03:23You have to do it
03:25because you like it.
03:27Because you enjoy it when you do it.
03:29Right now,
03:31you can't see it as an option, as a business.
03:33You can't see it like that.
03:35Especially when you work alone.
03:37And it's a neighborhood hairdresser.
03:39We're talking about a fishing village.
03:41I'm very proud of it.
03:43I don't change it for anyone.
03:45I don't go anywhere.
03:47I'm very proud of my village.
03:49I'm the daughter of a fisherman.
03:51I come from a rich family.
03:53Jaimanita is famous.
03:55It's a fishing village.
03:57It's famous for its history
03:59of fishing and its legends.
04:01It has a lot of legends.
04:03It's a humble population.
04:05Everyone is poor.
04:07There are no rich people here.
04:09There are no millionaires.
04:11There are no air-conditioned rooms.
04:13That doesn't exist here.
04:15We can say the opposite.
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