Project 10 - Hot Wax

Ivy is a beautician. She runs her own business and is highly successful. Year in, year out, she makes the rich (mostly Jewish) ladies in Johannesburg look and feel great.She has had a solid and regular client base for years. She knows and shares with them the most intimate details of their lives. She laughs with them and cries with them. She gossips with them, cares about them, and gives them sound advice. She even puts them into their car and starts the engine so that their manicured nails don’t get scuffed. To her clients, she is the best therapist around: rejuvenating
both body and spirit.Ivy started her highly successful career when it was illegal for black women in South Africa to work as beauticians for this sector of society. But Ivy is no sounding board. Being
one of Ivy’s clients is taking on Ivy herself: her views, her knowledge, her life.Over the years she has broken down both racial and social boundaries, allowing wealthy women a rare and real insight
into her life in the underprivileged community of Alexandria township. Ivy is a strong, realistic woman of Africa,whose outlook is resolutely positive.