Nolu Mkhonza Where else can you order a new beauty product online, get a call from the creator of the product and end up having a fat chat about her entrepreneurial journey, plus get your order an hour later? Only in South Africa. Nolu Mkhonza is co-owner and director of Hallyu Korean Skincare, an online platform for authentic Korean beauty products, and co-creator of Bephor, a K-Beauty haircare brand for natural hair. We’ll get to Bephor in a minute ... what I love about Hal

Last year I came across a luxury brand from Madagascar called Pok Pok on Instagram. I was drawn in by the intricate detail of the bags, zooming in to get a closer look, raffia worked into rounded and sculptural shapes, inspired, the brand explained, by the braiding techniques used in the creation of the hairstyles of southern Madagascar. According to the brand: ‘Braids speak without words. In Malagasy culture, braids are a silent language, a coded system read by an entire vil

Lots didn’t set out to build a haircare brand.