 This is Nanyu. Please introduce yourself. That's your camera. My name is Melissa Lesilale or mostly known as Pambo Mel. I am a hairstylist, makeup artist and mother of two. And you look in lovely. Oh, thank you. So, thank you for those straight questions. So, who did your makeup? Myself. Ya, ya. Ten minutes tops. I also did my own makeup. Oh you look very handsome. We saw you in our famous bathroom. Because you spray oil and oil and you know the bathroom. Yes. Perfect. Less is more. How is it working with all these major brands? For example, let me start with Got himself, Kipcheoge. Oh. Okay. That was a plug from my very good friend Kobi. But it was amazing. first time we came to the school and joined up things and then when I get there no na haa okay I was like okay compose yourself it's like okay cool you know what I'll continue doing what I normally do but he's such a humble human being yeah were you guys chatting when you were doing the makeup and everything he's a man of very few words yeah so wise words yeah let me say that hold on man when you may work now when you look on a fan and then you're feeling oh please a lot there's conversation when you look at any they are quiet like in it ah kumbe they do talk I think most of them that I interact with mm-hmm they're very they're normal people they're normal people me see what you know now but okay okay now you just relax because they make you comfortable mm-hmm they're in the likes of kina ketak tres kina you know south soul south soul actually south soul easy people very friendly uh you know kina kuru genzi nahi maizanda kwa tadyo but they are all good people um no anasisa you are a superstar in your field um interact na superstar you na feel okay ah it's normal so you need to cook guy how wow um how long does it usually take like to do an on average like to do hair to do um the beauty that's the makeup on a set kuna temu na rakishua kuna temu you have to take your time there's a time muna chikua the previous day had the next day yes yes uh it na depend not to set on it to a assistant director zedi oh anata come to our kwae on sets in 10 minutes oh no na i make up am I here in ya easy work so you have to meet halfway you have to meet halfway because they are easy hairstyles or rather easy makeup and these are these complicated hairstyles and complicated makeup so you also have to now that's where you come in as a um uh profession in your field and tell oh hi I know you're doing your job but I'm still doing my job the realistic timelines for this is maybe 30 minutes instead of 10 minutes so muna meet to halfway yeah took your apple uh numa behind the camera studies we are having a conversation you told me says nina you are forced to read the whole script or you have to read the whole script you have to you have to understand the characters sisi na deutru kwa tunaji wa actor am I like actor producer director na fufain no product am I talking about script no I actually watua on na hair is just hair it's actually a very big uh um addition to film for the people who don't know I do a lot of hair and makeup in film oshano ambeye sasa sasa palekwa palekwa nyuele why it's important for a hairstyles or even makeup parties to read the whole script manake kuna kiduna itua if you're shooting off-sequence off-sequence means leo ii leon terega api tere tato if my hair looks like this na tuna repeat hisiku in the next one month na fani keika vene hisiku meka su raga so now one month napidi anga picha umu na pidi a picha nyini so now the hairstyle you choose for continuity purposes mata so for you to know eh eh you na of kusoma iskriptu yue isi nila ripiti wa api so it's very involving it's very involving it's not about at into a make up nfanya tshu tshu tshu nyuele ama makeup ah ah you have to understand the day of shoot you have to understand kama ni asubu inguele amtu na kaji asubu kama me toka make up ekena kaji ivo so it's very involving kuna sasa usha ii like so ma script alafu kaji pata unajua lines is a character inile pata na semanini oh shiita na slatiwa nyuele na fire navy so you have to use nyuele nefu kuna yue dramatic move yeah so you know the script actually I can hear the accent next here I can hear the accent where's the accent from nendak sueli chakwe to very fast I can't get in the suits changu kitanza kuni siki tisha so nanza kwa na matamchi aluga um aluka unembea pokomo is actually less in the country so if you meet a fellow pokomo which she has yes apparently in this aku palen yumea camera and she was like oh yani na jua pokomak tana pokomo mungine that's very good luck because we are very few yes very few na kii sisi o masuet kwa kila mahali atana dume shanganiki kumbea masuet om tuapapu na jua om tuapapu all right um when did you begin your career as a makeup artist and a hair stylist so me ni one of the students kwa nasonganyasi pale primary school nge tega atu nge pa punishments from classic from classics from classics and then i opened the salon when i was 21 years old and till now it's still there i laugh professionally in terms of film i have been in six this is i think seventh year yeah six seven yeah six seven years um what are some of the challenges like see the skill convention if you are landed through like a school i mean you say that it came naturally what are the some of the challenges like will experience and how did you come up being noticed to a point that you're working with all these superstars and celebrities first of all what i'm saying in mungu it's good purely god's favor i operate in god's favor and then secondly me if you want more in life you need to put in the work so i i wanted to learn these things so i push myself so i'm like okay na juanuele so in amanisha anything insane in regards to hair it's something i can learn and it's something i can i can research and know about if it's makeup it's because i have the passion for it when you have passion for something and you go for it you actually you're in line with your purpose in life so me i knew my purpose in life maybe alia so i just focused on my purpose in life and i think you know the kafungu amilango with the help of god of course um but some of the challenges was um uh getting the industry and then you don't know a lot of things there's so many v2s as in words in atumika as a production and um can't yeah some of the time you used to mess up like you're not supposed to be on set at this time in the kuna kusuna it was blocking blocking you're supposed to be there so learning it does it was challenging because you know sometimes you don't get gracious people who teach you into into all by the fanya even you know sometimes we are our own competitors because because when you're in the early you think ah this is a place but kuna mtumumina na ona ah kuna is a kujichu kujobiango mtukayo but um i keep saying when you're focused on your goal that's it na ukiwa na rose afi mungu ezi kukuni god will just lift you up as you go um break through moment yako nikua gani um wow i'm sure kuna that moment you were like yes then me actually do a shout out to uh the african director mr toshki tonga because um he was shooting a film and then to me li kwa salo mi kwa salo mi kwa to salo nsi kwa da do anything ya film so nasonga and then they needed a hair stylist wa kujoshkiliye one night and nili pohenda nili pohenda day one nikama liza and i was making kina nikumutuma brenda rimu then in 2018 so one nimepelu kumali nima selebto but i was like i will keep calm and do what i do best but after apu akani patiya opportunity kept calling me for jobs kept calling so i can say he introduced me to this alongside i have to mention lois and alongside umija ya so one ani juju aniki se maifu shout out to them metaja wengine piyana wajua on the on a personal level so yeah shout out to them and thank you for giving her the breakthrough that she needed so uh before even telling you what we were discussing uh in today's show welcome people get you on social media and if people need your services how can they get them so i have uh oh yes so i have a salon at pambomel studio it's at smudidi road westlands uh i have a non-line shop for accessorize with pambomel where i ship accessories for all hair like anything here and also i create accessories and uh yeah and now my personal page pambomel studio where i also i am a model so cast so i do a lot so you'll find all that at pambomel pambomel and then pambomel studio and then accessorize with pambomel but i've seen the links if you go to pambomel you'll see the links at the top directing you to each of the sites so the question of the day or rather the discussion that we were having uh king charles and queen kamella are in kenya um i don't even come up with a leakage kidogo but what uh what what's your like what's your opinion what do you think so far about their tour but i want to focus specifically on how they appear like their fashion sense and their hairstyles and the way they were dressed what do you think about them did they bring the royalty feel for the queen i think she she looked royalty yo hairstyles ya ke it's ready ina nipatia princess diana ina nipatia like a kutu wukimona tuna jwe wu yu niwa wu yu tuni royalty ina makeup that is very subtle i love it for her age actually it's age appropriate and the hair i also feel like it was just it's just on point equal on point i'm not saying this because they are they queen but yeah no but you have a point it does look like royalty yes it does look like royalty how about our first lady oh stylia kia kunioa i find it very you know affordable one she has to focus on important issues of the country so yeah and then you know short hair makes you like look younger like cuts down from years so i feel like and then akona kichu ya kunioa na jokudanta na niwa bata na kichu ya kunioa ya akona kichu ya kunioa yes she's rocking the short hair yeah all right now what's the hairstyle lanyu shayanga liya sila nuta jayamtu lafu kuzineza guy what asa yume toka wabi i hope she offend him too so kunaia stylia lines uh kondroz or rather ganyans alafu ya kwaweef vinsimu na jo kondroz ni nini abuja he is actually also in the beauty industry vinyana cut he's a DJ as well so before i explain the bad hairstyle nil technology the bad hairstyle you kuna explain the kondroz so you kama him teliwa kavijana but i think the ladies do understand lines is a braids kondroz is it kubo shayanga liya wabi ah so inna separate inna kwaweef asa wa silewi the direction kondroz ni weef wame kwa tuwa apa no i'm offending it i'm offending someone right now i always feel like it should always be maybe just the kondroz zibaki i'ma weef choose one direction when you mix all of them afu uzinone kana apu so every time i sit i'm like ok kumoli za was the best asi ni niniwa na feelingi inesatokia in most people ikotu saawa iyo ni i always like simple hastyles geniulya kodyu naka extension those first years baby here kata nyeulya waka eka no just enough i find that style working with so many people because it's very i believe in less is more less is more do you know why i have dreadlocks kwae? kuna atu umenaga kiniuzi how many times ah mainly after 2 weeks nanda kiniuzi nona kuna fadali 2 weeks you're not supporting the Kenyan economy right now you're not supporting kwae riyato kia nga liya kuspia atuwa dreadi tuna enda salon but not as often as someone goes to how many times though ok i will stole that mind don't need to go like suji weekly manini niza enda monthly niki piti siya 2 months bade kusawa kuna kutya sasa when you're working with male clients what do you do with your hair sasa most of the time kwae na kutya for plating i think our salon is mostly known na kusonga na styling because also people are shy from relaxing their hair so guys are going very natural like in more natural hairstyles niza styling kusonga nweli so most of our clients like plating niza plating kwae na nweli zai diya po not really onaji okuna wene pia niza onaji wene wei wuko nini brandia kuna pata so mimi na nga kuna tani siya pisha kabisa lakwa suona kumdiya you don't look like yourself ya true enda udi wene kusohia wene nili anza kwa kanda eva lafini kwa anza kumdi nini patiwa maji na jesus nasez wata anza kuna ita sasa aja aka na ya kini wise one asa wise one nili ru di kwangu lakini kini anza kumdi e kababa exaiki as we wind up what can you tell people who are looking up to join the industry either in beauty or in a hair stylist in makeup as well as long as you have a passion for it go for it like even mi naji eka pa kanda naji announce if you feel like you can just reach out to me in my DMs I think most people do that and as long as God allows me to have an opportunity I always call any person who has DM me I think I'd always do that as long as you also do a good job you need to exume professionalism you need to exume excellence so you need to perfect your skill and even if it's not perfect just when you DM to we will work through it if you want to join this industry but also anyone who you know who can mentor you or can teach you some of the things we all learn from people you always go there but when you say and then it's perceived medioka actually growing up her styling is perceived medioka it looked more salo tia ukusoma amoli feil exam so right now I am a living testimony that it is actually a career that you can focus on and it puts food on my table and it has opened doors for me that I didn't imagine I would have a passion in her if you have a passion in makeup follow it, connect yourself with the right people and that's it I don't know what you are doing but others are wondering what you are doing at pambu underscore mail miskiyo pambu underscore mail alright thank you so much for coming just to mention my sister is also in the same industry I want to float too I want to float too because I have access to every single place thank you so much for coming thank you so much for coming I hope you have inspired people out there I hope so too so kitaji services miskiya menendawapi at pambu underscore mail underscore studio just to interrupt what is your name pambu p-a-n-b-o underscore m-e-l pambu n-u-rembo pambu underscore mail pambu kusuele kusuele n-u-rembo niki suaili niki suaili alright thank you so much for tuning in we are going to go on a small break musical break but when we come back we also have amazing guests joining us I'm going to scratch thank you