"Do you have any time that's your own?"
"你有属于自己的时间吗？"
That's the question my own team asked me one day in 2018 — the hardest year of my life.
I was building a business from the ground up, raising two children, driving them to school every morning, carrying a car loan and a mortgage — and still standing behind the chair myself as a stylist. Somewhere in all of it, my time had stopped belonging to me.
Then a friend sent me an article about Drybar, the American blow-dry bar. Reading it, I realised the one part of my day that still felt like mine was the few minutes my own team spent washing my hair — a small pocket of stillness in the middle of everything else.
If that pocket of stillness had saved me, why couldn't it save someone else too?
That question became YAO Headspa Journey. My business partner and I built it — still one of the first of its kind in Malaysia — so every busy woman could have what I almost forgot I was allowed to have: a little time that belongs to no one but herself.
— Founder, YAO Headspa Journey
"你有属于自己的时间吗？"
这是我的团队在2018年问我的一句话——那是我人生中最艰难的一年。
那时我白手起家创业，同时要照顾两个孩子，每天接送他们上下学，还背负着车贷房贷，也依然亲自站在美发椅前为顾客服务。不知不觉间，我的时间已经不再属于我自己。
后来，拍档给我发了一篇关于美国Drybar的文章。读完之后我才意识到，每天真正属于我自己的，只有团队为我洗头的那几分钟——在忙碌之中，一小段属于自己的静谧时光。
如果这段静谧时光救了我，为什么不能也救别人呢？
于是，YAO Headspa Journey诞生了。我和拍档一起打造了这个空间——在马来西亚仍属少见——希望每一位忙碌的女性，都能拥有我几乎忘记自己也能拥有的东西：一段完全属于自己的时间。
— 创办人，YAO Headspa Journey
