Bring On The Bows!

“They never go out of style,” Mariam Bahadori, 28, from Kansas City, Kansas told me about her new passion and business: bows.

A fellow Sumner Academy alumna and graduate from Kanas State University with a degree in Psychology and a masters degree from Friends University, Mariam has taken on a brand new venture.

She started her own business, Baha Bowtique, selling homemade hair bows and bow ties spanning to a vast audience of babies, children, women, men and even pets. She gives credit to her two sisters for not only some inspiration for the idea, but the name as well.

Pictured: Mariam Bahadori wearing one of her bows

While we sit in her apartment, she tells me it has been on her bucket list to start a business, but this was a little unexpected. She tried to brainstorm possibilities that could be easy to learn, make and sell. She dabbled with crocheting, but found it was too time consuming.

The Bahadori sisters are known for their hair buns and she noticed her and her sisters accenting them with bows. She explains she has always liked bows and how they are youthful. So she searched YouTube on how to create them. She found it easy to learn and decided to go with it.

Mariam told me it was when she was in the store getting fabric that she was in a group text message conversation with her siblings asking them what she should name the business. Her sisters helped her name it Baha Bowtique, which is a great play on words and it keeps the family name in the title. She likes that it is broad enough in case her sisters want to contribute other items to the business later down the road.

I quickly make a joke about them being the next Kardashian sisters in the business, but better.

Right now, her vision is: winging it.

She has been learning as she goes by following other accounts on social media that sells bows. Her goal for the next month is to create a website and become established on Etsy.

As for the bows –

Hair bows: Available in clip and headband in different sizes and styles

Bow ties: Available in clip and elastic

Pet bows: Available in elastic

Photos courtesy of Mariam Bahadori

She has an array of bows already including holiday, sports teams, Avengers comics, and more.

You can even request custom bows too!

Prices range from $2-10 right now depending on the bow. She is also able to ship them to customers out of state.

Mariam created two bows for me that were inspired by the Glitter and the Girly Girl blog and my staple cheetah print top!

Right now, she has been enjoying marketing her bows to teams of people who participate in charity races and fundraisers by incorporating different colors for different causes. There aren’t many limits to what you can do with bows.

By the end of the conversation, she was telling me how much of a perfectionist she is. There have been times she has spent hours to make sure the bows are just right or matching perfectly. She told me she has even gone back to her first few bows she created and fixed them now that she has gotten better over time. “I don’t want to sell something I wouldn’t wear,” Mariam explains.

If you are interested in purchasing bows from Baha Bowtique, you can reach Mariam on her Facebook page. Baha Bowtique also has an Instagram and Twitter. Now bring on the bows!

Sparkle&Shine.

Rachel

@theglitterylife

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