Esmeralda's fashion tipsHow teacher can improve his look

By Esmeralda Freeman
with files of BHSB Writers

Esmeralda Freeman is a BHSB student who has expressed interest in several careers, one of them being cosmetologist.

In one of her more candid (or should we say “blunt”) moments, Esmeralda explains how she feels her class teacher could do with a head-to-toe makeover. She calls on him to “cover up his bald spot,” to “look younger,” to “change clothing,” to invest in “teeth whitening,” to take care of his “grey hair and split ends” and to come to school in “new shoes.”

“If I see a person (who) needs a makeover, (who) has a bald spot, looks old, (wears) ugly clothes, (has) yellow teeth, (wears) bad sneakers, (has) grey hair, and split ends, (then) that person would need hair grease (to) make their hair grow, more new clothes that are in style, makeup, teeth-whitening, new sneakers, hair dye and scissors to cut (the) split ends,” Esmeralda forthrightly declares.

“If the person has glasses and (doesn’t) look nice with (them), they should get contacts,” she adds. “They can get colored or clear.”

Though ever-advancing age and the daily classroom grind might take their toll on any teacher, Esmeralda suggests a change in personal beautification products could work wonders.

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“The person might have been doing their (ablutions) wrong,” Esmeralda intimates. She suggests such people are not choosing the right “hair products,” or “don’t wash their face right, don’t brush their teeth the correct way, (and) don’t know how to look for shoes.”

Esmeralda insists that all is not lost. “If you want to fix the imperfections,” she shares, “then, for the hair, (you) can go to the hair salon and tell them to dye and cut your hair.”

She continues: “For your face, you can go to a makeup artist and they would take away your wrinkles, fix your eyebrows, (and) also fix your eyelashes.”

According to Esmeralda, “if you want your teeth cleaned, you can go to a pharmacy (to the spot) where the toothpaste (is located), and look for teeth whitening strips. “(They) would make your teeth white,” she says.

“For…shoes, go to Foot Locker and buy some Nikes, Jordans or Pumas. For clothes you can go to get name-brand clothes. The products I would use (are) makeup, contacts, teeth whitening strips and hair products.”

Here are some of Esmeralda’s general tips:

1. Brush/comb your hair every day and wash your hair once every week or every two weeks.
2. Use hair products: hair gel, comb, brushes, hair grease, hair treatment, shampoo, conditioner, moose, hairspray and olive oil.
3. Cut your ends to make your hair grow.

Esmeralda’s ambition, in her own words:

Some people ask me to do their makeover to look younger and more pretty. They like the way I do their hair styles.

(That's why) I want to open a hair and nail salon.

I change my hairstyle (frequently) because I get tired of the same hairstyle every day. I would (also) want to re-do someone’s hair if it (didn’t) look right.

The first person’s hair I did was my little cousin’s. I was 11 years old. I … did a wash and set.

My stepmother was working in a hair salon when she taught me how to blow-dry, flat-iron, braid, curl, dye and perm hair. She used to tell me to wash people’s hair.

I know now to (also) do makeup and nails, (as well as) eyebrows (and) eyelashes.

Esmeralda Freeman arrived in the United States from Jamaica when she was very young, but she still remembers coming to this country on a plane. In her first years here, she noticed the streets were different from those in her hometown. She thought that other things about living in the United States were different too.