TECNO way📱

Firstly, I would like to applaud people that believe in my potentials. You guys are the best. Do you know what it feels like for your friend to reach out to you and say ''Lollycious, I saw something online about this thing, you should give it a shot.''

Especially about modelling and broadcast presentation, I would always see someone to send me the e-flier of one thing or the other. If you've been doing this, I do not take this for granted and all your acts of kindness would be repaid in due season.

This TECNO Ambassador of a thing isn't a destination but a journey. I would not want to sound like a motivational speaker if I should start saying ''If you believe you can, you can'' even though that's like the reality of how I got here.

Although, I'm not really where you all thought I am but I know I'm on the road to stardom and God's grace will lift us all beyond our imaginations.

To begin with, modelling started as a part time career for me in 2017. I've always been a picture freak person, wanting to be seen and heard at the same time. Even before I knew what it entails, I would always tell people I'm a model. Lol

About that time, they had placed an electronic billboard at Iwo road (for those who know Ibadan in Oyo state) which displayed adverts of all kinds and the faces on the adverts have been stirring something in me to also be the face of brands on the billboard.

I remembered I had picked the email of the company that owned the billboard so I could message them that I can be the face of their billboard but somehow, I couldn't send the mail due to my naivety.

Fast forward to April 2018. A brother who happened to be my very good friend took my first official shoot. As a photographer, I had disturbed him that I needed to take some studio photographs to boost my modelling portfolio and he accepted to as he has always been persuading me to focus on the career being a beautiful black girl.

The modelling shoot turned birthday shoot because I lacked orientation but I still meauuved. As in. I went ahead to register for Queen Moremi Ajasoro pageantry competition and Queen Culture Nigeria convened by my darling sister, Dr Blessing Animasaun. I wasn't lucky in any.

I pushed harder on social media in 2019 where I gingered myself that I could be a freelance model and still blow. I sent DMs to Makeup artistes, some replied and some ignored. All the efforts seeming somehow, I started sending DMs to modelling organizations too, even mails. Nothing nothing.

It dawned on me that maybe I just do not have what it takes to be selected by all those I reached. I was feeling inferior to the other models pictures I see. I looked at myself more in the mirror and whisper to myself ''babe, you black no be small o'' ''babe, true true your head big o'' ''omoooooh, you no fine sha'' 

Well, that didn't stop me from taking nice pictures and participating in anything reasonable. 

Oh, did I even mention I was duped? I had participated in a photo contest together with some ladies. We were added to a WhatsApp group and were told the contestant with the highest paid vote wins. People voted for me and I added some money too but after some days we were all removed from the group, I searched their IG page and nothing came up. I was becoming desperate to be called Queen or Face of so so so and I cried. Like WTF!

I had just been busy doing free collaborative shoots since.

Booooom. A friend had sent me the TECNO student Ambassador flier and asked me to participate. It lingered for some days before I decided to convince myself that my entry won't be a futile one like the other past ones. 

When I noticed the likes I got for the entry was little, I zeroed my mind but damn, it was not by likes, it was by being creative. Made it to top 20 and then to top 10. My four years dream of being a brand ambassador finally came through.

This story isn't in any way to boast, it's just to encourage one another about persistence. You see that good thing you're passionate about, don't stop doing it. Just one day, it will pay off!

That dream will come through as long as you don't relent, compromise or being complacent. It's an honour working with one of the biggest global brand.

 

With love from a TECNO Spark Ambassador: Lollycious, your Sagacious local girl.

Virtual hugs FAM 🤗🤗🤗