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HK20: Nigar Qureshi โ€“ Journey of a trailing spouse from Pakistan to award-winning beauty salon in HK with Hollywood & Bollywood clientele

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๐‡๐Š๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ: ๐๐ข๐ ๐š๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ก๐ข โ€“ ๐๐š๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ข ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐‡๐Š (Full)

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๐๐จ๐ญ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ:

โ€œ๐ป๐พ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ . ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ . ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž $1, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’.โ€

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’.โ€

โ€œ๐ต๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›.โ€

โ€œ๐ต๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’. ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘.โ€

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ โ€ฆ ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘”. ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘“๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ . ย ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ โ€ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘ฆ ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ .โ€

โ€œ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’. ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘„ ๐ด๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘š๐‘ฆ. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก.โ€

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐ป๐พ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ฅ ๐‘ข๐‘. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ป๐พ.โ€

๐†๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž:

Nigar Qureshi is an award-winning aesthetician, skin-care specialist, cosmetologist and make-up artist sought after by celebrities and international beauty pageants.ย  She is owner of โ€˜Spa Beaute Par Zaiโ€™, one of the best spas in Hong Kong, established in 1975 by French founder Zai. Spa BPZ is known for excellent personalized service and uses the most high-tech equipment and latest beauty products.ย  Qureshi trains all her beauticians in what she calls โ€œThe French-to-the-English-American-Wayโ€.

Nigar was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1982, she moved to HK with her family. Shortly thereafter, she got into skincare business and started working with Zai at Salon BPZ. In 1993, when Zai moved to France, Nigar bought the business and has been growing it since.ย  Nigar and Spa BPZ have received several awards for their pioneering work in the beauty industry.