What led me to start the salon
I decided to open the salon because I needed to raise my child as a single mother. I was in my early twenties, with little life experience and no completed high-school education, trying to find something I could do with the abilities I had. Because the service could be created through one's own hands, I felt this was a field where many people had the chance to try. Having come this far as both a therapist and a mother, I strongly want other women to feel confident that they can build a life through their own efforts.
There were already many massage salons. I knew that an ordinary salon run by someone as inexperienced as me could not compete with large businesses in scale or services. So I decided to do something others were reluctant to do, convinced that there would be people who needed it.
I felt that relatively few people actively wanted to work at night, so finding staff would probably be harder than for daytime work. But I also thought customers might want massage more often at night than during the day. Very late at night and toward morning, few salons remained open. I believed that was where my salon had its best chance of surviving.
At the time, I worked day and night to raise my daughter and often wanted a massage late at night or early in the morning. Yet I repeatedly gave up because I could not find an open salon. Even now, I think about how much I would have appreciated a place to refresh my tired mind and body then.
